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NEW ERA on our PLANET: Tracking the Anthropocene
2015 through 2018
INTRODUCTION
Nature is no longer in charge. There's a new sheriff in town, and he's a real piece of work. In any case, the greedy motivations of man have replaced the driving fertility of Nature as the leading force on this planet, and even the scientists have noticed. Which means it needs a name...
Done. I already named it, when I recognized the depth of our nasty effects a long time ago: The Scum-o-cene. We are leaving the spiritual and physical equivilant of a nasty bathtub ring on the Spirit and Body of Nature as humanity, "consumes" both.
I abhor and reject identification as a, "consumer."
Check out these next introductory articles, then we follow the general outlines of our re-modeling of this world.
REFERENCES
The Scum-o-Cene:
Introductions
The indications of a new geological epoch marked by human impact are clear,
University of the Basque Country, 1-20-16.
The Blow-by-Blow Score:
Tracking the Human Affect: April-May 2017.
Hiding in the Shadow of our own Ignorance?
The Situation
February 27, 2017
Will naming the Anthropocene lead to acceptance of our planet-level impact?
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, February 27, 2017.
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July 31
The Climate-Driven Anthropocene
Killing Ourselves and Everything Else
Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up
June 11
ANTHROPOCENE
Humans are Equal to The Big Volcano and The Big Rock from Space?
How do you like your frogs cooked? Slowly & Self-Cooked, or Naturally Quick?
June 5
THE END OF AN AGE
The Age of Humans
Human Effects Equal Chicxulub Climate Disruption
May 5
THE PROGRESSIVE'S ANTHROPOCENE
The Natural World in Collapse
World's rarest ape on the edge of extinction
April 19
OCEAN NEWS
2 Pieces of Great Barrier Reef Research
Ocean Life: Hope for Great Barrier Reef?
Remnants to Survive a Hundred Years?
2016 Massive Northern Great Barrier Reef Die-Off
Sad Status of The Great Barrier Reef
March 14
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Karma Coming Quickly
Threat to the Foundation of Life
Global Warming Killing Phytoplankton
Endless Summer Coming
Global Warming is Frying the Whole Middle East
March 8
PLANATARY CLIMATE CHANGE CHAOS
The End of Cold
Eco Crash News: Furthest Northern Arctic Permafrost to Melt
What's Going On?
Whole Southwest of US Undergoing Aridification
March 2
ECO CRASH NEWS
CHANGING ARCTIC SEASONS
Harbigner of Deadly Changes at Four Days per Ten Degrees
WATER & WEATHER
2018 Climate News: Radical Western Snopack Decline
March 1
Cambodia Leapard Population Crashing to Immediate Extinction
Feburary 26, 2018
CRASHING ECOSYSTEMS
King Penguins Face Climate Change & Food Competition
Eco Crash Practice
Bantu Crashed Central Africa 2600 Years Ago
Dress Rehersal for Today's Global Crash
February 21
KARMA GOES HIGH & LOW
Sea Level to High Altitude Ecosystems Destroyed
High Elevation Wildflowers Disappearing
Sea Level Marshes Disappearing
February 15
BAD HUMANS
Death of Nature
February 14, 2018
Massive Environmental Destruction
Global Proliferation of Urban Crapholes
472 cities above a million, 32 megacities above 10 million
January 16, 2018
TIMELESS HUMAN EVIL
Visible, Geological-Scale Effect
Determining The Anthropocene Reference Point
January 9
The Biggest Tipping Point
Warming can "short-circut" Food Chains?
Humans: Salting the Earth
And the Sky, the Water, the Fields
January 4
Warming Times
January 1. 2018
Aridification Baked-In
Vast Global Ecosystem Changes Underway
December 12, 2017
Last Cheetahs on Earth
December 6
Our Dying Planet
Crashing Ecosystems Everywhere
End of the Line for the Sumatran Tiger?
November 29
The Jena Experiment: Total Ecosystem Monitoring
Biodiversity Critical for Nitrogen Cycle
November 19
CLIMATE CRASH
Scraping Along the Bottom of Ma Nature's Barrel
Pittance Salmon Run Causes Joy
North Sea Changed & Changing
November 16
Ma Nature
Locked & Loaded
Climate change impacts already locked in
Groundwater Double-Wammy
Groundwater depletion adds CO2
&
Groundwater Recharge Declines in West under Climate Change
November 15
CRASHING CLIMATE
I've Fallen and I Can't Get Back Up
Amazon's Forest recovery limited by climate change
Warmth Warping the Weather World
Changing Storm Tracks in Warming World
November 13
Global Weather Disaster Growing
The Wages of Irresponsible Growth
25th Anniversary of "World Scientist Warning to Humanity"
Tree & Forest News
Heat brings Bug Death, Invasive Species, to Forests, Too
November 1
Can Coral Make the Climate Change Cut?
October 26
Another Sacrifice on the Alter of Greed
October 25
Birth of the Corporate Growth Machine of Death
Start Point of Planatary Death
October 11
Evolution
Lobotomizing the Web of Life
The beneficiaries of mass extinction
September 18
Anthropocene Scorecard
When it comes to the threat of extinction, size matters,
OSU, September 18, 2017.
September 14
Fish Challenged Everywhere
Climate change challenges the survival of fish across the world,
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, September 13, 2017.
Warm Enough Now
Once-abundant ash tree and antelope species face extinction -- IUCN Red List,
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE, September 14, 2017.
Too Warm Now
Scientists blame climate change for loss of pikas in Lake Tahoe,
Tahoe Daily Tribune, September 14, 2017.
September 8
Bye Bye Butterfly
Monarch butterflies disappearing from western North America,
WSU, September 7, 2017.
September 6
Saying Goodbye
Animal Parasites
Due to climate change, one-third of animal parasites may be extinct by 2070,
SMITHSONIAN, September 6, 2017.
Rising heat decreasing parasite populations.
August 31
Rapidly Changing Sierra Nevada
Climate Change Spells Extinction for Pikas of Lake Tahoe,
August 31, 2017.KQED.
American pika disappears from large area of California's Sierra Nevada mountains,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ, August 30, 2017.
July 10
Prelude to global extinction,
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 10, 2017.
June 21
When estimating extinction risk, don't leave out the males,
UNIVERSITY OF BATH, June 22, 2017.
Small rodent species may become endangered,
WILEY, June 22, 2017.
May 31
IDIOT ALERT
We're on the brink of mass extinction -- but there's still time to pull back,
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, May 31, 2017.
Well meaning idiots at McGill are soft-pedaling the anthropocene by still putting Nature in terms of an "end product," representing it as a value in dollars and profits, rather than its essential value as the root of all life and meaning on this planet.
This perspective reveals who they work for.
Eliminating the forces of greed from controlling our society, not "distracting" them from finishing off our planet, is our only timely hope to save our Ancient Ecosystems.
Those driven and funded by greed, such as McGill, constantly reveal themselves as part of the problem, not the solution, as they continue to sell us, "Corporate Environmentalism," being the concept that Nature is a "product," or unit of "profit." This perspective prevents identifying the true location of the problem within ourselves, specifically the corporate growth machine of death our greed has created.
The corporate growth machine of death will not slow to, "preserve profits," but will accelerate to capture all potential profits from the final destruction of Nature before its competitors do.
Thus McGill acts as a good stooge of corporate propaganda, mouthing the words of the “corporate environmentalists,” who are not environmentalists at all, but propagandists. McGill well does its job of assuging social fears while their corporate sponsors finish asset-stripping our planet. I’m sure McGill is very well-funded and endowed for this work.
Also See
The Observed Necessity for a New Environmentalism
May 28
A ramble through some solutions for the Anthropocene,
Ars Technica, May 28, 2017.
May 22
Salmon, Native Fish in California going Down for the Count
Article, notes, and references in the Fish News
May 20
Brutal Effects of Man
New Zealand's mainland yellow-eyed penguins face extinction unless urgent action taken,
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, May 16, 2017.
May 16
Report: California fish face more extinctions unless trends change,
Merchury News, May 16, 2017.
May 11
Research increases distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on Earth,
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, May 11, 2017.
ISSUE:
“The Supernova Kill Zone,”
“Big Rock from Space,”
along with
Super-Volcanos and Humans:
(Which term above is different from the others?)
More-Comments Invited through New Format
April
Facing extinction: California fishes,
California Water Blog, April 30, 2017.
April 25, 2017
Extinction risk for many species vastly underestimated, study suggests,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. April 25, 2017.
Tracking the Anthropocene
Humans Creating Death around the World
Survival of the oldest,
BIOMED CENTRAL, May 3, 2016.
Better data needed to stop sixth mass extinction,
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, April 25, 2016.
First global analysis indicates leopards have lost nearly 75 percent of their historic range, PEERJ, May 4, 2016.
Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa,
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT, May 2, 2016.
May 2
Californian sudden oak death epidemic 'unstoppable,' new epidemics must be managed earlier,
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,May 2, 2016.
April 2016
Evidence points to widespread loss of ocean oxygen by 2030s,
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, April 29, 2016.
Changing climate conditions in Michigan pose an emerging public health threat,
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, April 25, 2016.
Climate change threatens Iran's great salt lake,
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, April 29, 2016.
April 29
Can Joshua trees survive global warming? Scientists have differing thoughts,
LADN, November 29, 2016.
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species,
PLOS, December 8, 2016.
Study: climate change already dramatically disrupting all elements of nature,
Wildlife Conservation Society, November 10, 2016.
Pottery Barn Rule:
We broke it...
Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age,
1-13-16, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
For the second time, we are witnessing a new geological epoch,
1-11-16, Ars Technica.
The indications of a new geological epoch marked by human impact are clear,
University of the Basque Country, 1-20-16.
Also See
Are Humans the Death of Nature?
"How we became nature – Anthropocene"
A Scientific Review of Humanity, 3-17-15
Guardian "Extinction" Report
The Environmental Record is Clear
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