“If we don’t address the harmful aspects of human activities, most obviously disruptive climate change, we are headed for tragedy. “If you know your Greek tragedies you know power, hubris, and tragedy go hand in hand,” said Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, a working group member. But in a few hundred years, if climate change continues and those disappear, it may be time to change that, Waters said. The reason geologists didn’t declare the Anthropocene the start of a bigger and more important time measurement, such as a period, is because the current Quaternary Period, which began nearly 2.6 million years ago, is based on permanent ice on Earth’s poles, which still exist. The proposal still needs to be approved by three different groups of geologists and could be signed off at a major conference next year. They are also proposing that it starts a new age, called Crawfordian after the lake chosen as its starting point. The scientific working group is proposing that Anthropocene Epoch followed the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age. Christopher Alan Toppenberg of Lawrence Township pleaded guilty last month in 36th Circuit Court in Paw Paw to a charge of discharging a. Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. (AP) A western Michigan man was sentenced Monday to a year in jail and three years of probation after pleading guilty in a January shooting that killed two men at a New Year’s party.

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