Memory and the Anthropocene
The increase in carbon-dioxide emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and its effects of global warming has left a geological record, as shown by polar ice core samples that date from the mid-to-late-eighteenth century. This has prompted Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer (in 2000 and 200...
Published in: | Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Éditions du Centre d'études et de documentation Mémoire d'Auschwitz
2015
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.1492 http://journals.openedition.org/temoigner/1492 |
Summary: | The increase in carbon-dioxide emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and its effects of global warming has left a geological record, as shown by polar ice core samples that date from the mid-to-late-eighteenth century. This has prompted Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer (in 2000 and 2002) to identify the end of the previous geological epoch, the Holocene, the warmer period of 10-12 millennia that succeeded the ice age of the Pleistocene. Crutzen and Stoermer have identified the A. |
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