A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet.
Nothing to see here. Just another mass extinction event, caused by a radical paradigm shift in how life on the planet has functioned for the Earth’s entire existence, and all in the span of a few hundred years.
There’s some debate as to whether the proposal uses the right boundary marker. A bunch of the climate scientists want the change in carbon isotope concentration instead of nuclear fallout
Nothing to see here. Just another mass extinction event, caused by a radical paradigm shift in how life on the planet has functioned for the Earth’s entire existence, and all in the span of a few hundred years.
There’s some debate as to whether the proposal uses the right boundary marker. A bunch of the climate scientists want the change in carbon isotope concentration instead of nuclear fallout