new age science

**mahakala** · 20th February 2008, 05:27 PM

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http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01...eologic-epoch/

**Fiona** · 20th February 2008, 06:05 PM

What difference will it make?

**Mongrel** · 20th February 2008, 06:58 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, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Fiona

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, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by mahakala

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.