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Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Next Ice Age, the Oncoming Ice Age

We are now in an interglacial stage, where we have the same configuration to day as we did 18 thousand years ago. People have been able to calculate with some degree of accuracy just how far we have postponed the next ice age because of extra c or two that's been inserted into the atmosphere. Some estimates suggest that we've definitely put off the next ice Age for another 50 thousands years. And if we can carry on as business as with the carbon, then we probably put it off for about half a million years. The human impact is so large that we're now taking celestial mechanics and basi say, no, the climate systemis longer to react.

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