{"id":311530,"date":"2024-03-22T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311530"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:24:41","slug":"update-yes-we-have-no-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311530","title":{"rendered":"Update:\u00a0 Yes, We Have No Anthropocene!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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from Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Alert by Kip Hansen \u2014 20 March 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this month we heard that the International Union of Geological Sciences commission on the Anthropocene voted not to declare that the Earth <\/a> had entered a new epoch of geological time: neither now or in 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reporting at that time included that the chair and the vice-chair of the commission both objected to the vote. \u201cEven so, it was unclear Tuesday morning <\/em>[March 5th<\/sup>]<\/em> whether the results stood as a conclusive rejection or whether they might still be challenged or appealed. In an email to The Times, the committee\u2019s chair, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, said there were \u201csome procedural issues to consider\u201d but declined to discuss them further. Dr. Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester, has expressed support for canonizing the Anthropocene.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NY Times has an update<\/a> on the issue:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>March 20, 2024Updated 11:22 a.m. ET<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The highest governing body in geology has upheld a contested vote by scientists<\/a> against adding the Anthropocene, or human age, to the official timeline of Earth\u2019s history.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vote, which a committee of around two dozen scholars held in February, brought an end to nearly 15 years of debate about whether to declare that our species had transformed the natural world so thoroughly since the 1950s as to have sent the planet into a new epoch of geologic time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the continued objections of Dr. Zalasiewicz and his vice-chair, Martin J. Head:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201c\u2026<\/em>the committee\u2019s parent body, the International Union of Geological Sciences, has decided the results will stand, the union\u2019s executive committee said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means it\u2019s official. Our planet, at least for the time being, is still in the Holocene epoch<\/em><\/strong>, which began 11,700 years ago with the most recent melting of the ice sheets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, hopefully, that is the end of that!  At least \u201cofficially\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists and Advocates-of-all-stripes will continue to use the term to forward their anti-human stances and to blame all \u201cbad things\u201d on humans and human influences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kudos to the geologists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2026the committee\u2019s parent body, the International Union of Geological Sciences, has decided the results will stand, the union\u2019s executive committee said in a statement on Wednesday.
\nThat means it\u2019s official. Our planet, at least for the time being, is still in the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago with the most recent melting of the ice sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":311534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821078,691818192,691827772],"class_list":{"0":"post-311530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-anthropocene","9":"tag-holocene","10":"tag-international-union-of-geological-sciences","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/0Screenshot-2024-03-22-112233.png?fit=1126%2C573&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1j2G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324100,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=324100","url_meta":{"origin":311530,"position":0},"title":"Anthropocene: The Cockroach of the Geologic Time Scale?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"For now, we\u2019re still in the Holocene. 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