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Found a link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2008/2008012526150.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.44.228.141 (talk) 17:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Note: "Anthropocene" gets 470 Google hits, mostly scholarly. Not yet in general use, but certainly current use as a term in discussion. -- The Anome 12:23, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
(William M. Connolley 20:58, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)) Another note: I've just written the Paul J. Crutzen page, and found his original article, and it appears to say:
- anthropocene start mid 18C (not that a hard start date exists, mind)
- its in IBGP newsletter (not? global ch?)
- ps: its up to 2040 hits now... quadrupled in a year.
- Now 6,170 hits. I will add this to my list of articles to consider working on.--NHSavage 23:30, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
- 23 Mar 2007 = 44,100 hits. OldDigger 09:02, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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- 13 Mar 2008 = 86,100 91.153.51.158 (talk) 04:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
The Holocene epoch started ~10,000ya so the Anthropocene period cannot also start then unless it is a component. However it seems that the Anthropocene can only be seen as sensibly starting in the 18C, ie. when a noticable change to past 'cycles' was observed, and that was why the term was coined. OldDigger 08:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Anthropocene more likely to be accepted as the most recent age of the Holocene epoch? [1], [2] OldDigger 17:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC) More up to date with lots of references: [3] OldDigger 22:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
No, but it it is to be used scholarly, it won't be separate from the Holocene. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.165.18.206 (talk) 05:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Additional source
There's a new paper up on GSA Today. Might be worth working into the article. Rl (talk) 12:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- Zalasiewicz, Jan; Mark Williams, Alan Smith, Tiffany L. Barry, Angela L. Coe, Paul R. Bown, Patrick Brenchley, David Cantrill, Andrew Gale, Philip Gibbard, F. John Gregory, Mark W. Hounslow, Andrew C. Kerr, Paul Pearson, Robert Knox, John Powell, Colin Waters, John Marshall, Michael Oates, Peter Rawson, and Philip Stone (February 2008). "Are we now living in the Anthropocene". GSA Today 18 (2): 4–8. doi:.
[edit] Formatting of reference links
Is so important. Refs 2 and 4 are now broken, and cannot be verified because they are bare URLs. We should really be using the {{cite web}} template to do refs, filling out the url, title, author, date, and access date so people can still use something like the Wayback Machine to verify a reference. Murderbike (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The Beginning?
The opening paragraph says the Anthropocene started "in the 19th century when the activities of the humans first began to have a significant global impact."
Both earlier discussion on this talk page, and the Holocene article say it began in the 18th century. Either one makes its own sort of sense to me, but I wonder if there's some consensus. Cadwaladr (talk) 22:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I've now read Paul Crutzen's paper on the subject, and he proposes a beginning in the late 18th century, so I'm changing it. Cadwaladr (talk) 20:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
