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mahakala
20th February 2008, 06:27 PM
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http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/29/are-we-living-in-a-new-geologic-epoch/
Fiona
20th February 2008, 07:05 PM
What difference will it make?
Mongrel
20th February 2008, 07:58 PM
And it's hardly official yet


British Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz and several colleagues argue that the International Commission on Stratigraphy should officially mark the end of the current epoch.
mahakala
20th February 2008, 11:05 PM
What difference will it make?

That's a good question. It muddies the water in respect to determining the extent of human impact on climate change, and what is going to happen, and thus where resources should be put in order to manage the event.
Matt
21st February 2008, 03:14 PM
That's a good question. It muddies the water in respect to determining the extent of human impact on climate change, and what is going to happen, and thus where resources should be put in order to manage the event.

No it doesn't. It's merely a labelling issue. There's still the same amount of certainty as to the causes of these changes. If anything it highlight the scale of the impact we've had.
mahakala
21st February 2008, 04:06 PM
Very sure of yourself aren't you mate.
Matt
21st February 2008, 05:45 PM
Very sure of yourself aren't you mate.

More so when I'm right.