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Welcome to the Anthropocene!

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Sunday, October 16, 2011 06:25
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 6:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


NOT to bring climate change up again, but I found this interesting:
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New geological epoch made by humans

WELCOME to the warm Anthropocene. The growing volume of global temperature data adds to the evidence that we have left the Holocene and entered a new geological epoch dominated by human activities.

"We're now a few tenths of a degree above the prior maximum of the Holocene," says James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. The Anthropocene is also characterised by sediments bearing human traces, such as plastics and other refuse.

Hansen, speaking at a Royal Society meeting in London, was also critical of a widely adopted target to limit global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Feedbacks that take millennia to run their course mean 2 °C could ultimately lead to the melting of polar ice and several metres of sea-level rise, he says.

He adds that the interglacial period 130,000 years ago was just 1 °C warmer than today yet sea levels were 5 metres higher.

Hey ho! We've got our very own "cene" now!

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Sunday, October 16, 2011 6:25 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Look for this nonsense to be dismissed and ignored, in about 10-20 years. If not sooner.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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