BlindBoo
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I saw this documentary last weekend that says we are now out of the Holocene period and may be beyond the point of no return. For the first time the equilibrium of the Holocene period which gave rise to human development has shifted. We are now in the Anthropocene period.The study is obvious nonsense.
Of course cosmic rays can cause clouds which can retain heat at night, but during the day, clouds increase albedo, which cools the climate.
And cosmic rays have NOT changed.
We constantly measure them and they have not increased while temperature has.
The current temp readings are all record highs.
At this point is it incredibly foolish to claim we are not causing global warming.
Some cities in Canada reached over 130 degrees, and hundreds have died from the increased heat.
Don't forget though.......
Since millions and millions of years before man ever existed this planet has gone through the same thing we're seeing right now countless times. This planet has had worldwide floods, worldwide droughts, worldwide fires, an ice age, worldwide floods, seismic activity enough to break apart land masses, total reversal of the poles, bombardment of cosmic rays, the total loss and gain of the ozone layer, bombardment by meteors, and so much more.
Earth is chaotic, it's ever changing. We have only been around a ting fraction, not long enough to actually see any of its cycles yet.
To know what has happened to earth and blame this on man when he has only been involved in heavy industry for a 100 years or so is foolish, short sighted and irresponsible.
This planet has been proven to gone through what it is now before us and way worse. The planet is just fine.
We're still in the Ice Age. The Holocene period, when the glaciers retreated. Not the first inter glacial period of the Ice age, just the most recent. Temperatures have risen as high as they've ever been during this period.
Thanks.
The primary question that the IUGS needs to answer before declaring the Anthropocene an epoch is if humans have changed the Earth system to the point that it is reflected in the rock strata.
To those scientists who do think the Anthropocene describes a new geological time period, the next question is, when did it begin, which also has been widely debated. A popular theory is that it began at the start of the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, when human activity had a great impact on carbon and methane in Earth’s atmosphere. Others think that the beginning of the Anthropocene should be 1945. This is when humans tested the first atomic bomb, and then dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The resulting radioactive particles were detected in soil samples globally.
In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group agreed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and began in the year 1950 when the Great Acceleration, a dramatic increase in human activity affecting the planet, took off.
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Anthropocene
The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.www.nationalgeographic.org
HA HA HA,
again do I have to point out that it is a proposal that doesn't meet the definition of what is an epoch, I showed at POST 146 is nonsense.
The utility of the Anthropocene requires careful consideration by its various potential users. Its concept is fundamentally different from the chronostratigraphic units that are established by ICS in that the documentation and study of the human impact on the Earth system are based more on direct human observation than on a stratigraphic record. The drive to officially recognize the Anthropocene may, in fact, be political rather than scientific.
Finney & Edwards, 2016
"These units are classified based on Earth’s rock layers, or strata, and the fossils found within them. From examining these fossils, scientists know that certain organisms are characteristic of certain parts of the geologic record. The study of this correlation is called stratigraphy. "
In geologic time, 1945 was like a second ago. Radiation from the atomic age will mark our geologic layer We'll never know if the layer we leave behind will mark a dramatic change in the organisms found above our layer. At least that's what I got out of the Nat Geo article I linked to.
Again this from the LEADER of the IUGS,
"From Finney & Edwards: “Workflow for approval and ratification of a Global Standard Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) proposal. Extensive discussion and evaluation occurs at the level of the working group, subcommission, and International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) Bureau. If approved at these successive levels, a proposal is forwarded to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) for ratification. This process is also followed for other ICS decisions on standardization, such as approval of names of formal units, of revisions to the units, and to revision or replacement of GSSPs.”
The utility of the Anthropocene requires careful consideration by its various potential users. Its concept is fundamentally different from the chronostratigraphic units that are established by ICS in that the documentation and study of the human impact on the Earth system are based more on direct human observation than on a stratigraphic record. The drive to officially recognize the Anthropocene may, in fact, be political rather than scientific.
Finney & Edwards, 2016
Dr. Stanley Finney is the Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), which would have to ratify any formal changes to the geologic time scale."
Stop being foolish here, there is NO indication the name Anthropocene will ever be adopted since as clearly pointed out, it doesn't meet the CRITERIA for inclusion.
The name will not matter if it truly is the beginning of a new epoch. I'm not saying it is. I'm saying we'll never know.
Ha ha ha, there is no new epoch needed, that is the problem you can't handle.
What is official is already good enough, no need to add a politicized pile of bullshit in a classification scheme.
You and others have yet to show that such an addition meets the standard for inclusion anyway and I already showed you twice what is the standard is, you ignored it.
You guys are so bereft of critical thinking since there have been MANY periods of far more CO2 in the atmosphere than the last 70 years, it currently at some of the lowest values of the last 570 Million years.
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You people are that stupid?
Looks like you're just dancing with yourself.
No it is your inability to understand what is actually going on, you fell for a stupid idea that doesn't meet the guideline on it, showed why too, you ignored it as the warmist/alarmist moron you are because you don't know jack shit about it.
The Person who wrote the article is a GEOLOGIST and a member of the organization under discussion.
Yeah National Geographic knows nothing about geology or geophysics. <\sarcasm> As I pointed out to the poster who saw a program on the topic and brought it up, it is merely a proposal. But you for some reason or another choose not to actually read what was posted and continue on with your asinine assumption.