Researchers move closer to defining the Anthropocene. Really!

The obsession with anthropocene continues! And it has to be spelled with a capital A!

This time it is the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!

I have already blogged in 2014 about the Anthropocene Is Obscene 

Researchers move closer to defining the Anthropocene | PNAS

Royal Society of Chemistry: Marking the Anthropocene

Anthropocene is obscene! What human hubris on display, not much more!

Can humans stop or even accurately predict earthquakes, volcano eruptions, or other natural catastrophes? Can we change the daily weather? What about the almighty sun? And there are many more questions about humans and nature ...

"The idea for the Anthropocene came from a chemist – the Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, who sadly died on 28 January this year. In 2000 he suggested that we are now in a new geological epoch, marked by the activities of humans. ..."

Marking the Anthropocene | Feature | Chemistry World The idea that we’re in a human-influenced geological epoch is gaining traction, but how will future geologists measure it?

Anthropocene Is Obscene

Posted: 10/19/2014  Updated: 7/11/2015, 10/27/2014

Update As Of 7/11/2015

Just read this article “It’s Too Soon to Call This the Anthropocene Era  We humans can cause earth a lot of damage, but we don’t hold the whip hand” published by IEEE Spectrum.

Basically, the author argues as long as humans are not capable of controlling any of the natural catastrophes or weather we should not be changing the name of the current geological era since it is also fairly young (we are only 12,000 years into Holocene).

Original

This fairly new term to name the current geological chronological epoch seems to gain momentum from what I am reading.

This term seems to be seriously flawed in many respects:

1. One of the main promoters of this term, Paul J. Crutzen (Nobel laureate in chemistry), seems to have quite an ideologically biased view
2. This term suggests humans are habitual environmental sinners like the Christian bible suggests we are all sinners and need salvation
3. To use such a term is another sign of the pretense of knowledge displayed by so many scientists
4. As long as humans are not controlling weather or earthquakes or volcanoes or are able to permanently eliminate mosquitoes it would be quite preposterous to suggest humans are ruling nature