Welcome to the Anthropocene?

(Did) We Accidentally a New Geological Epoch(?)

@KaLeiMai

33C3 proposal – bullet points will be slides, links are likely sources

CC-BY 4.0

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?

Randall Munroe: Earth Temperature Timeline xkcd.com/1732

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

AWG status & current discussions

• What are "Golden Spikes"?