Sentences with phrase «proposed age of the earth»

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We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

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

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:

We are witnessing a time when the human impact on the earth system is growing exponentially, spawning the proposed naming of a new geological era, where the earth system is under the influence of the human race: the Anthropocene, of «the Age of Man» (and Woman).

Elaborating on the 1842 suggestion of the French mathematician Joseph A. Adhémar, Milutin Milankovitch proposed during World War I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were important.

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.