[Rockhounds] Politics ??? Re[2]: The Anthropocene Is a Joke

[Erich Kern]

What politics??????????????

Erich Kern



------ Original Message ------
From: "Dora Smith" <tiggernut24 at yahoo.com>
To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
Sent: 8/14/2019 9:23:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] The Anthropocene Is a Joke

>Can you all take your "thoughtful" politics off list!
>
>Dora Smith
>
>On 8/14/19 6:17 PM, Tim Fisher wrote:
>>That certainly is some food for thought. They do bring up the 
>>Holocene, which is also rather presumptuous. Also I didn't read the 
>>whole thing but arbitrary division of geologic time periods would 
>>naturally result in shorter units as our resolution increases. If you 
>>extend the logic farther the Anthropocene began with Homo sapiens. Or 
>>H. erectus. or Australopithecus. Or....
>>
>>Tim Fisher
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On 
>>Behalf Of Kreigh Tomaszewski
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 12:50 PM
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>>Subject: [Rockhounds] The Anthropocene Is a Joke
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>>Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the 
>>Anthropocene. Or so we???re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth history 
>>stretch more than 40 million years, this new chapter started maybe 400 
>>years ago, when carbon dioxide dipped by a few parts per million in 
>>the atmosphere. Or perhaps, as a panel of scientists voted earlier 
>>this year 
>><https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01641-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=4037068ff3-briefing-dy-20190522>,
>>the epoch started as recently as 75 years ago, when atomic weapons 
>>began to dust the planet with an evanescence of strange radioisotopes.
>>
>>These are unusual claims about geology, a field that typically deals 
>>with mile-thick packages of rock stacked up over tens of millions of 
>>years, wherein entire mountain ranges are born and weather away to 
>>nothing within a single unit of time, in which extremely precise rock 
>>dates???single-frame snapshots from deep time???can come with 
>>50,000-year error bars, a span almost 10 times as long as all of 
>>recorded human history. If having an epoch shorter than an error bar 
>>seems strange, well, so is the Anthropocene.
>>
>>
>>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arrogance-anthropocene/595795/
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