Sentences with phrase «earth history proposed»

This is the idea behind the Anthropocene, a new epoch in Earth history proposed by the Nobel Prize - winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen just 15 years ago.

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He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

This really is an effort to explain the vast gulf between inorganic and organic actuality by proposing that «subjectivity» and «mentality» emerged partway through Earth's history.

Inspired by a 2012 paper that proposed a correlation between such hotspots and the velocity of seismic waves moving through Earth's interior, UC Santa Barbara geochemist Matthew Jackson teamed with the authors of the original paper — Thorsten Becker of the University of Texas at Austin and Jasper Konter of the University of Hawaii — to show that only the hottest hotspots with the slowest wave velocity draw from the primitive reservoir formed early in the planet's history.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Exploration of deep space, including NASA's proposed return to the moon and visits to Mars, could provide clues to a host of scientific questions, from the origins of Earth to the history of life in our solar system.

We are delighted to invite you to attend our Big History Anthropocene Conference: A Transdisciplinary Exploration in Sydney, Australia.The human race has had such a profound impact on the climate and environment of the Earth that some have proposed we have entered a new geological era — the Anthropocene.

An international group of scientists has proposed the date of the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history — the Age of the Anthropocene.

This is the proposed epoch of Earth history that, proponents say, has begun with the rise of the human species as a globally potent biogeophysical force, capable of leaving a durable imprint in the geological record.

Paul Crutzen, the Nobel laureate in chemistry who, with others, proposed the term in 2000, and Christian Schwägerl, the author of «The Age of Man» (German), described the value of this new framing for current Earth history in January in Yale Environment 360:

Thus, I answered Adam's question by trying to walk through the history of climate science starting with Joseph Fourier in 1824 discovering the greenhouse effect, John Tyndall in 1859 discovering H2O and CO2 absorb infrared which confirmed Fourier's greenhouse effect and Svante Arrhenius proposing in 1896 that human CO2 emissions would prevent earth from entering next ice age.