Sentences with phrase «geological age marked»
It's time to stop pretending otherwise, to stop pretending that we haven't already entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age marked by massive species loss (already achieved) and climate change (in progress).
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«This is the first time anyone has clearly identified the specific onset of the cold times marking the start of the Little Ice Age,» said Gifford Miller, a geological sciences professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the lead study researcher.
Science has helped demonstrate that we have entered the Anthropocene, an age in which humans, through our «great acceleration,» have become a planetary force and left a signature — in fallout, carbon, plastic and more — that could mark the dawn of a geological age of our own making (if not yet our own design).
As regular readers know, scientists are in a bit of a tussle over what date marks the dawn of Earth's «age of us» — a.k.a. the Anthropocene — even as other scientists and scholars question whether it's hubris to think a geological epoch, as strictly defined, can result from human activity.