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Guest “Roaches check in — but they don’t check out!” by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring “the Greatest” Muhammad Ali? As Kip Hansen…

Climate Change Weekly (CCW) has reached a milestone, its 500th edition. Joe Bast, the founder and first president of The Heartland Institute, charged James Taylor, then managing editor of Heartland’s Environment &...

“... it was unclear Tuesday morning [March 5th] whether the results stood as a conclusive rejection or whether they might still be challenged or appealed. In an email to The Times, the committee’s chair, Jan A. Zalasiewicz,...

“A committee of roughly two dozen scholars has, by a large majority, voted down a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene, a newly created epoch of geologic time, according to an internal announcement of the voting...

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch...

Plants that people do not need will be pushed to extinction, according to a new study. The paper, published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, found that plants rarely used by humans are being pushed to extinction faster...

Guest “Stick a fork in it” by David Middleton This should “stick a fork” in the notion of an Anthropocene Epoch… Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological…

Guest “You never always go full retard” by David Middleton 7 Epic Epochs of Earth, Ranked […] 1. Pleistocene, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago The very best time on Earth.…

Guest “This would actually be science by voting” by David Middleton In my most recent post addressing the Anthropocene, one commentator became obsessed with the fact that in order for…

Guest “Good fracking grief!” by David Middleton I do a lot of networking on LinkedIn. The vast majority of it is with oil & gas and other energy industry professionals…

Guest “A funny thing happened on the way to the Anthropocene” by David Middleton I’ve been studying a recent Holocene climate reconstruction (Kaufman, D., McKay, N., Routson, C. et al., 2020)……

Now a new study in Nature by a team of scientists from the Weizman Institute in Israel upends that perspective. Our constructions have now – indeed, spookily, just this year – attained the same mass as that of all living...

Last week, Denmark’s NATURKRAFT officially opened to offer the public a new space for experiencing the “physical and aesthetic powers of nature.” Designed by Thøgersen & Stouby and SLA, the new landmark at the...

According to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, climate change and poaching are putting approximately 70 animal species in the country at risk of extinction...

Guest “the Anthropocene doesn’t exist” by David Middleton Hat tip to Joel O’Bryan… The full text is available on ResearchGate… I didn’t bother to read it because the Anthropocene is 100%...