{"id":612,"date":"2008-01-29T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T11:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:40:23","slug":"goodbye-holocene-hello-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Holocene, Hello Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movement to declare the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch as finished is gaining steam amongst scientists.  Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen suggested in 2000 that human activity was altering the planet sufficiently to rate a new epoch, and a couple of recent papers are giving the idea momentum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch:<UL><LI>Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Wholesale changes in biology, from altered flowering times to new migration patterns.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Acidification of the ocean, which threatens tiny marine life that forms the bottom of the food chain.<\/LI><\/UL><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20080127\/sc_livescience\/humansforceearthintonewgeologicepoch\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movement to declare the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch as finished is gaining steam amongst scientists. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen suggested in 2000 that human activity was altering the planet sufficiently to rate a new epoch, and a couple of recent papers are giving the idea momentum. Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}