If There Is An Anthropocene Epoch, When Did It Begin?
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 11:40
in Earth & Climate
The debate over policy implications of climate science can have no clear winners - everyone claims science is on their side and that scientists on the other side are misguided. Though both sides are experts at framing - CO2 is good for us in any quantity, skeptics are all dupes of Big Oil - one was clearly taking it to the next level: In 2000, Professor Paul Crutzen, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland for work on ozone, said humankind's impact was so drastic it has changed the actual geology of Earth and since then environmentalist have been promoting Crutzen's new Epoch - the Anthropocene - as a distinct chapter in the Earth's geological history. read more