{"id":20538,"date":"2016-01-07T16:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-force-of-nature"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:10:32","slug":"new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-force-of-nature","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Suggests Human Beings Are a Geological Force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-force-of-nature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, the term \u201cAnthropocene\u201d has been used to informally describe the human era on Earth. But new evidence suggests there\u2019s nothing informal about it. We\u2019re a true force of nature \u2014 and there\u2019s good reason to believe we\u2019ve sparked a new and unprecedented geological epoch.<\/p>\n<p>A team of international geoscientists say the time has come for us to formally recognize the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/what-is-the-anthropocene-and-are-you-living-in-it-1441883288\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropocene<\/a> as a new epoch, one as significant as previous geological eras like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiZqLbQyZXKAhVENz4KHXAsD0oQFgglMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucmp.berkeley.edu%2Fquaternary%2Fholocene.php&usg=AFQjCNG8JvZmoarPpp7blVPQ85kZWJfrsQ&bvm=bv.110151844,d.dmo\" target=\"_blank\">Holocene<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwigx9DIyZXKAhXDGR4KHfQoCAEQFggmMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucmp.berkeley.edu%2Fquaternary%2Fpleistocene.php&usg=AFQjCNFF3082h0dFA5irSE6HLhj9w6U5EA\" target=\"_blank\">Pleistocene<\/a>. According to the new study, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aad2622\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in the latest issue of <em>Science<\/em>, it began sometime around the midpoint of the 20th century, and is fueled by a number of unquestionably human influences \u2014 including elevated greenhouse gas levels and the global proliferation of invasive species, along with the spread of materials such as aluminium, concrete, fly ash, and even fallout from nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-force-of-nature2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"New Evidence Suggests Human Beings Are a Geological Force of Nature\" data-chomp-id=\"hhyosp3lz7jz0zgcs9zq\" data-asset-url=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--gcKpHuQK--\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/hhyosp3lz7jz0zgcs9zq.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-evidence-suggests-human-beings-are-a-geological-for-1751429480\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the term \u201cAnthropocene\u201d has been used to informally describe the human era on Earth. But new evidence suggests there\u2019s nothing informal about it. We\u2019re a true force of nature \u2014 and there\u2019s good reason to believe we\u2019ve sparked a new and unprecedented geological epoch. A team of international geoscientists say the time has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538\/revisions\/63326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}