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Has the Earth entered the Anthropocene Age, or not?
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 77588740" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><h3><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/world/anthropocene-epoch-rejected-scn/index.html" target="_blank">Proposal to mark a new chapter in Earth’s history will ‘go no further,’ scientists say</a></h3><p>The proposal was rejected by members of the <a href="http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/members/" target="_blank">Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy</a>, which is part of the International Union of Geological Sciences, according to three voting members of the subcommission contacted by CNN Tuesday.</p><p></p><p>The vote followed a 15-year process to select a geological site that best captures humanity’s impact on the planet. The international union’s Anthropocene Working Group, which spearheaded the effort, made a July 2023 announcement that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/world/anthropocene-epoch-geological-time-unit-scn/index.html" target="_blank">identified the location as Crawford Lake in Ontario</a> because of the way sediment from the lake bed reveals the geochemical traces of nuclear bomb tests, specifically plutonium, from 1950.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 77588740, member: 294566"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/05/world/anthropocene-epoch-rejected-scn/index.html']Proposal to mark a new chapter in Earth’s history will ‘go no further,’ scientists say[/URL][/HEADING] The proposal was rejected by members of the [URL='http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/members/']Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy[/URL], which is part of the International Union of Geological Sciences, according to[B] [/B]three voting members of the subcommission contacted by CNN Tuesday. The vote followed a 15-year process to select a geological site that best captures humanity’s impact on the planet. The international union’s[B] [/B]Anthropocene Working Group, which spearheaded the effort, made a July 2023 announcement[B] [/B]that [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/world/anthropocene-epoch-geological-time-unit-scn/index.html']identified the location as Crawford Lake in Ontario[/URL] because of the way sediment from the lake bed reveals the geochemical traces of nuclear bomb tests, specifically plutonium, from 1950. [/QUOTE]
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