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Here’s a primer explaining exactly why scientists know the climate is changing and that human activities are causing it…
Read Full Article, LiveScience (03-10-2017)
Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces; Guardian UK (02-12-2017)
The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age, Guardian UK (08-29-2016)
Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by the radioactive elements dispersed across the planet by nuclear bomb tests, although an array of other signals, including plastic pollution, soot from power stations, concrete were now under consideration…
Human-induced climate change began earlier than previously thought; Guardian UK (08-24-2016)
The first signs of warming from the rise in greenhouse gases which came hand-in-hand with the Industrial Revolution appear as early as 1830 in the tropical oceans and the Arctic, meaning that climate change witnessed today began about 180 years ago…
Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say, Guardian UK (01-08-2016)
There is now compelling evidence to show that humanity’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and wildlife has pushed the world into a new geological epoch, an “Anthropocene” – ending the current Holocene which began around 12,000 years ago…
