Green Options » Holocene http://greenoptions.com/tag/holocene Posts tagged 'Holocene' Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Exit the Holocene http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/25/exit-the-holocene/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/25/exit-the-holocene/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/01/25/exit-the-holocene/ The Earth’s geological time scale (image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)Humans have so altered the Earth — from carbon dioxide levels to wholesale changes to plant and animal populations — that we’ve created a whole new geological epoch for ourselves, according to research published this week by the Geological Society of America. The authors of the study conclude that Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen was right and we no longer live in the Holocene, but in the Anthropocene.

Graphic of the Earth’s geological time scale courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

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