Welcome to the Anthropocene?
(Did) We Accidentally a New Geological Epoch(?)
@KaLeiMai
33C3 proposal – bullet points will be slides, links are likely sources
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is
- one year after "Ten years after ‚We Lost The War‘"
not
- too gloomy
This talk
About me
- studied biochemistry, arctic ecology & geology
- worked in tech support of software startup
- drifted towards lab automation
Background
Geological Ages
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human activity
- early warming hypothesis
- deforestation
- megafauna extinction
- industrialisation
- Pyrocene
- oil, nuclear & plastics
Environment
- status
- climate trajectories
- breaking the rebound effect
- geoengineering?
Climate Trajectories: Choose now!
Scientifically interesting vs. socially challenging
- Nuke tests off-set CO2-pollution in radiocarbon-dating
- Bullet Two
- Bullet Three
Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG)
AWG origins
- Bullet One
- Bullet Two
- Bullet Three
- What are "Golden Spikes"?
Consequences & Choices
Summary
- New geological epoch? Probably!
- Accidentally? No!
- "Welcome" is on us!
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