Anthropocene era: Humans changed the Earth's geology by setting off atomic bombs in 1945

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1. Nature World News: Humans Have Been Living in New Epoch for Last 50 Years

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/11990/20150116/humans-have-been-living-in-new-epoch-for-last-50-years.htm

Humans Have Been Living in New Epoch for Last 50 Years
By Jenna Iacurci
Jan 16, 2015 01:26 PM EST

It turns out that humans have actually been living in a new epoch for the last 50 years, beginning on July 16, 1945 with the dawn of the nuclear era, a new study says.

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The Anthropocene Working Group - a group of scientists and humanists - assembled in Berlin last year with the goal of "developing a proposal for the formal ratification of the Anthropocene as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale," they wrote in a news release.

The term was first proposed in the 1980s by Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000.

And while it no doubt will be an uphill battle to make the Anthropocene idea official - it took about 15 years to name the last epoch, the Ediacaran period some 600 million years ago - the Anthropocene Working Group has given itself until 2016 to do so.

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