In a stirring 2000 paper, Crutzen pointed to the many ways that today's
Earth is no longer "natural" thanks to the effects of human
civilization. Global warming is only the latest and best-known example.
Truly, he says, humans have become a geologic agent comparable to
erosion and eruptions, and accordingly "it seems to us more than
appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and
ecology by proposing to use the term 'anthropocene' for the current
geological epoch." He repeated his proposal to a much larger audience
in a January 2002 Nature article.
Re: Algore The Flake & Sore Loser ... We've had geology reports around for a century which reported fossil evidence of high temperatures and tropical plant growth in the Arctic regions. ... Simply put, Al Gore and the doomsayers are claiming humans are responsible for global warming, whereas the geological fossil records have for many decades proved there has been regular cycles of global warming and cooling occurring long before humans ever existed on this planet. ... Al Gore and his doomsayers would have you believe that a small increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is without any doubt going to tip the planetary environment into a runaway greenhouse effect whose ultimate outcome is a ruinously hot atmosphere like that on Venus which produces puddles of molten lead. ... The geological fossil record, on the contrary, proves the Earth has frequently experienced twice and four times as much atmospheric carbon dioxide wihtout experiencing any such fantasy runaway disaster. ... (soc.history.war.misc)
Re: GLOBAL WARMING DRAMA or THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND ... The consequences of the present Global Warming are worse than the ... official Geology is telling you indeed. ... Only in the past two years half of the North Pole Ice Cap disappeared....predictions 10 times. ... (sci.geo.geology)
Re: The weather......... ...Geology?!?... This would seem to indicate that increases in CO2 levels... are driven *by* global warming rather than forcing it. ... CO2 doesn't drive global warming then the antropogenic portion of it can ... (soc.culture.scottish)
Re: The weather......... ...Geology?!?... are driven *by* global warming rather than forcing it. ... If CO2 is not ...temperature over the last 140 years. ... (soc.culture.scottish)
Re: New Epoch? ... In a stirring 2000 paper, Crutzen pointed to the many ways that today's ...Earth is no longer "natural" thanks to the effects of human ... appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ... ecology by proposing to use the term 'anthropocene' for the current ... (sci.geo.geology)
