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	The Anthropocene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The exact beginning of the anthropocene is still being debated, but Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer have proposed that the anthropocene starts in the 18th century.
		The anthropocene is the result of the vast expansion of human populations.
		The recent, rapid increase of population led to the anthropocene.
	oceanworld.tamu.edu /resources/oceanography-book/anthropocene.htm (1083 words)

	Anthropocene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Anthropocene is used by some scientists to describe the most recent period in the Earth's history, starting in the 18th century when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems.
		The term was coined by the Nobel Prize winning scientist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of mankind on the Earth in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era.
		While much of the environmental change presently occurring on Earth is a direct consequence of the industrial revolution, it can be argued that the Anthropocene actually began approximately 10,000 years ago with the termination of the last ice age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthropocene (513 words)

	Sabine et al. - The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2
		Anthropogenic CO budget for the anthropocene (1800 to 1994) and for the decades of the 1980s and 1990s.
		The airborne fraction, i.e., the fraction of the combined fossil-fuel and land-use emissions that remains in the atmosphere, is statistically indistinguishable between the two periods, i.e., 39 to 48% for the anthropocene versus ~46% for 1980 to 1999 (Table 1).
		There is an indication, although not statistically significant, that the ocean-uptake fraction has decreased from 28 to 34% to about 26%, whereas the sink strength of the terrestrial biosphere appears to have remained constant within the large uncertainty bounds (18 to 33% versus 28%).
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /pubs/outstand/sabi2683/sabi2683.shtml (4175 words)

	ARCTOS Trainee School
		The anthropocene is defined as the present time on earth, when the dominating human influence causes changes in the global biogeochemical cycles
		In the anthropocene, the era when human influence on the global environment is large enough to cause dramatic changes to the processes on earth, the engine not only influences the carbon cycle and the sustainable resources, but additionally acts on pollution and climate, which again influence human activities.
		Even biological research is therefore influenced by the human dimension, and the school therefore emphasizes the rare concept anthropocene.
	www.nfh.uit.no /arctos/training_2.html (440 words)

	Anthropocen and Planet Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		That fact that since the mid 50s we have witnessed a process hereto unknown to man is something which by now is understood and increasingly analysed.
		Important scientists that work in the field of research on climate and on the environment have called the period of the history of Earth corresponding to the modern age of the history of the man “anthropocene” (from the Greek "anthropos").
		The idea is that from the beginning of the industrial era, some changes in wind patterns, in meteorological phenomena and in cloud coverage have influenced the general state of the atmosphere, the flow of oceans, ice coverage and desertification; these same factors are important for the growth of plants and the evolution of ecosystems.
	www.terredelsud.org /effettoantroeng.php (618 words)

	hubris-watch: Humans Rival Nature in Global Environmental Impact
		The EuroScience forum in Stockholm heard on Thursday that climate change was the most obvious of a complex range of man-made effects that is rapidly changing the physics, chemistry and biology of the planet.
		Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist who first proposed the term Anthropocene four years ago, said the concept was winning wide acceptance from colleagues in other fields.
		These are beginning to show the hot spots or Achilles' heels in Earth's defenses against catastrophic change, said John Schellnhuber, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change at the University of East Anglia.
	hubriswatch.blogspot.com /2004/08/humans-rival-nature-in-global.html (585 words)

	lindau-nobel - Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The results are heavy air pollution, acid rain and high ozone levels over large tracts of the continents with substantial impacts on human health and the biosphere.
		Several climatically important so-called “greenhouse gases” have substantially increased in the atmosphere during the “anthropocene”, the current human dominated geological epoch, which started with James Watt’s design of the steam engine in 1874.
		Only then, their governments can be effectively informed about the multiple stresses that homo sapiens is exerting on an increasingly frail environment.
	www.lindau-nobel.net /content/view/152/27 (1288 words)

	Today's Colloquium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		over the anthropocene, mankind has emitted large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere, mainly as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, but also because of CO2 emissions associated with land-use change, e.g.
		The anthropogenic CO2 that did not accumulate in the atmosphere must have been taken up by the ocean, by the land biosphere, or by a combination of both.
		The relative roles of the ocean and land biosphere as sinks for anthropogenic CO2 over the anthropocene are hitherto not known.
	www.atmos.colostate.edu /pipermail/atmos-cira-all/2004-March/000342.html (320 words)

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		The anthropocene era started with large-scale industrialization in 18th century Europe, and activities of industrial culture have impacted every ecosystem on the planet.
		Global warming, a primary agent of the anthropocene era, may result in catastrophic species loss across the planet.
		A new regional and community-based ethic is needed today in order to face the political and ecological challenges of the anthropocene era.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/community/readarticle.cgi?article=1442 (558 words)

	anthropocene
		Considering these and many other major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term 'anthropocene' for the current geological epoch.
		According to a study by Berger and Loutre (14), because of the anthropogenic emissions of C0, climate may depart significantly from natural behaviour over the next 50,000 years.
		To assign a more specific date to the onset of the 'anthropocene" seems somewhat arbitrary, but we propose the latter part of the 18th century, although we are aware that alternative proposals can be made (some may even want to include the entire holocene).
	www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de /~air/anthropocene/Text.html (967 words)

	FT.com print article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Scientists are beginning to accept that earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, so named because humans have come to rival nature in their impact on the global environment.
		The EuroScience forum in Stockholm, Sweden, heard on Thursday that climate change was the most obvious of a complex range of man-made effects that is rapidly changing the physics, chemistry and biology of the planet.
		Will Steffen, chief scientist for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, said: “The Anthropocene is a very different era from the relatively stable and nurturing environment in which humans and our societies have evolved.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/feee07d0-f786-11d8-afe6-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=abb716b0-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html (497 words)

	Project Relevant to Science and Technology for Sustainability: Sustainability Geoscope
		The Geoscope is an instrument for comparative regional observation and analysis with regard to measures affecting sustainability on a global scale.
		In that sense the Geoscope is an observation instrument for the anthropocene, the era we are currently entering and in which the human sphere and the natural environment are no longer separable.
		Lucht, W., Jaeger, C.C. (2001): The Sustainability Geoscope: a proposal for a global observation instrument for the anthropocene.
	ksgnotes1.harvard.edu /BCSIA/forum.nsf/proj/geoscope (513 words)

	The Heat Is Online
		The EuroScience forum in Stockholm heard on Thursday that climate change was the most obvious of a complex range of man-made effects that is rapidly changing the physics, chemistry and biology of the planet.
		Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist who first proposed the term Anthropocene four years ago, said the concept was winning wide acceptance from colleagues in other fields.
		These are beginning to show the hot spots or Achilles' heels in Earth's defenses against catastrophic change, said John Schellnhuber, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change at the University of East Anglia.
	www.heatisonline.org /contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4836&method=full (1002 words)

	O'Reilly Radar > Time Zoom: Welcome to the Anthropocene
		Nobel laureate atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen suggests that the current geological era should be called the "Anthropocene," because it is increasingly dominated by human-caused effects.
		Baez noted that oil companies now can send their tankers through a Northwest Passage that they may have created, since it is fossil fuel burning that raised the CO2 that raised the summer temperatures in the Arctic that melts the polar ice away from the land.
		Baez suggested that the Anthropocene may be characterized mainly by species such as cockroaches and raccoons who accommodate well to humans.
	radar.oreilly.com /archives/2006/10/welcome_to_the_1.html (817 words)

	Earth System Modelling Group - Research
		Anthropocene: Past, present and future human-induced global change, simulating feedbacks on and within the human system (anthroposphere), projecting the long-term response of the Earth system to human activities.
		GENIE: The Quaternary, Anthropocene, and snapshots of Earth history.
		Simple Earth System Model: The Anthropocene, from 1800 A.D. to the end of this millennium (3000 A.D.), soon to be extended to ~10 kyr into the future.
	tracer.env.uea.ac.uk /esmg/ESMResearch.html (1117 words)

	page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In a paper published in Climate Change in 2003, William Ruddiman proposes that the Anthropocene began not with the Industrial Revolution, but with the transition of people from gatherers to farmers.
		This is the graph presented by Ruddiman which demonstrates that the Holocene differs from what would be expected from the previous interglacial periods.
		Ruddiman puts forward the hypothesis that through the discovery of plant and animal domestication the Anthropocene began with the first cultivated crops and has been intensified through technological innovations over the last 10,000 years.
	www.sindadel.com /jackie/page3.html (1665 words)

	lindau-nobel - Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene
		The results are heavy air pollution, acid rain and high ozone levels over large tracts of the continents with substantial impacts on human health and the biosphere.
		Several climatically important so-called “greenhouse gases” have substantially increased in the atmosphere during the “anthropocene”, the current human dominated geological epoch, which started with James Watt’s design of the steam engine in 1874.
		Only then, their governments can be effectively informed about the multiple stresses that homo sapiens is exerting on an increasingly frail environment.
	www.lindau-nobel.de /content/view/241/32 (1288 words)

	Jahrbuch-CD der MPG 2003 - The "anthropocene"
		This includes the manufacturing of hazardous chemical compounds which are not produced by nature, such as for instance the chlorofluorocarbon gases which are responsible for the "ozone hole".
		Because human activities have also grown to become significant geological forces, for instance through land use changes, deforestation and fossil fuel burning, it is justified to assign the term "anthropocene" to the current geological epoch.
		This epoch may be defined to have started about two centuries ago, coinciding with James Watt's design of the steam engine in 1784.
	www.mpg.de /forschungsergebnisse/wissVeroeffentlichungen/archivListenJahrbuch/2002/27/publZIM148.html (150 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Coastal Fluxes I the Anthropocene: The Land-ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Project of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They are shaped by natural Earth systems processes on a planetary scale, which are reflected in a continuously adapting coastal environment.
		Now, in the "Anthropocene", human society is a greater catalyst for change - impacting and modifying coastal processes.
		It is a milestone rather than a destination on the journey which continues under the new International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) and the LOICZ II (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) Project.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/3540254501 (377 words)

	DA Morgan - The Anthropocene Epoch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Our advance from our hominid origins has brought us near-dominance of the world, and a rapidly accelerating understanding of it.
		Scientists now say we are in a new stage of the Earth's history, the Anthropocene Epoch, when we ourselves have become the globe's principal force.
		But several eminent scientists are concerned that we have become too successful - that the unprecedented human pressure on the Earth's ecosystems threatens our future as a species.
	www.scienceagogo.com /message_board11/messages/202.shtml (83 words)

	A Global Assessment of Land Quality in the Anthropocene. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The pre-eminence of human activities over natural processes in the shaping and evolution of landscapes distinguish the last 300 years as being a special epoch in the Holocene, referred to as the Anthropocene.
		In the anthropocene, the decline of land quality has been systematic and presently about 31% of global land resources are threatened with a diminishing capacity for biomass production.
		Temporal studies during the anthropocene suggest that highest rates for such processes were in the last about 60 years.
	crops.confex.com /crops/2005am/techprogram/P3553.HTM (288 words)

	Wisp'r Issue 24 - 04.09.2003 Page 03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Crutzen, who received a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his research on the ozone layer, coined the term Anthropocene for our current geological time period.
		Crutzen: "When I said so, a silence fell in the meeting, and the term Anthropocene was born." Later, through publications in Nature, the term became accepted among the scientific community.
		In the seminar on Monday, Kabat and Crutzen focused on the effects of climate change for water management.
	www.gcw.nl /wispr/new/w2003_24_03.htm (350 words)

	Word Spy - anthropocene
		The overwhelming consensus of scientific research indicates that human activity is exacerbating climate change.
		Some scientists even have begun referring to the present period in Earth's history as the anthropocene (from the Greek for man and new), in recognition of the extent to which man influences the environment.
		To assign a more specific date to the onset of the 'anthropocene" seems somewhat arbitrary, but we propose the latter part of the 18th century.
	www.wordspy.com /words/anthropocene.asp (254 words)

	EARTH SYSTEM ANALYSIS for SUSTAINABILITY - Science - RedOrbit
		An up-to-date understanding of how human actions have brought about and are accelerating the Anthropocene is the necessary foundation for any serious effort to harness science and technology for sustainability.
		An indepth analysis of the notorious climate sensitivity conundrum and a thorough delineation of Earth System geography in the Anthropocene (intercomparing the role of the mid-latitudes to the tropics and the polar regions) were among the highlights in the group's deliberations.
		The Anthropocene can be perceived as a period of accelerated coevolution, driven forward at an unprecedented pace by an unprecedented force, namely Homo sapiens' collective intelligence.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/258840/earth_system_analysis_for_sustainability/index.html (7108 words)

	"Anthropocene" definition from Double-Tongued Dictionary
		As we rapidly enter a new Earth system domain, the “Anthropocene” era, the debate about distinguishing human effects from natural variability will inevitably abate in the face of increased understanding of climate and biogeochemical cycles.
		Exactly when such an Anthropocene should be seen to replace a truncated Holocene is a matter of debate.…Some would undoubtedly advocated AD 1000, which roughly equates with the beginning of the industrial cycle of global population growth.…, while others would prefer c.
		In a final chapter on the “Anthropocene,” a newly minted term meaning the geological epoch defined by man, Ms.
	www.doubletongued.org /index.php/dictionary/anthropocene (372 words)

	Minnesota Environmental Partnership: Community Calendar
		A principal result of the Industrial Revolution and associated changes in human demographic, cultural, economic, and technology systems is the evolution of an Earth in which the dynamics of major natural systems are increasingly affected by human activity.
		As the journal Nature said in 2003, “Welcome to the Anthropocene.” The increasing importance of the emergent behaviors of the complex integrated human/natural/built systems that characterize such an era creates a need to extend industrial ecology to the planetary scale.
		This capability, which is known as earth systems engineering and management, is in its infancy, but is necessary if we are respond rationally, responsibly, and ethically to the challenges of the Anthropocene.
	www.mepartnership.org /mep_calendar.asp?cal_id=2088 (239 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Anthropocene
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		The very early anthropocene might be considered to have onset following the most recent ice age, with Homo sapiens by then dispersed across the continents, and the neolithic revolution.
		These brought forward agriculture and animal husbandry over hunter-gatherer subsistence, and were followed by a wave of extinctions, beginning with large mammals, and land birds, but by now having finished off or severely pressuring many others - even the biomass of vertebrate life in the oceans.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Anthropocene (472 words)

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