{"id":248231,"date":"2016-12-08T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d3ec7e6eaa58f682ca85055db1abefac"},"modified":"2016-12-08T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:51:35","slug":"scientists-still-dont-understand-the-anthropocene-and-theyre-going-about-it-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=248231","title":{"rendered":"Scientists still don&#8217;t understand the Anthropocene &ndash; and they&#8217;re going about it the wrong way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anthropocene Epoch \u2013 a new geological era in which humans are the dominant force for change \u2013 is real and started sometime around 1950. This is the conclusion reached by the Anthropocene Working Group (of the International Commission on Stratigraphy) in August this year. The group will spend the next three years finding a suitable geological marker of this transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anthropocene Epoch &ndash; a new geological era in which humans are the dominant force for change &ndash; is real and started sometime around 1950. This is the conclusion reached by the Anthropocene Working Group (of the International Commission on Stratigraphy) in August this year. The group will spend the next three years finding a suitable geological marker of this transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248232,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231\/revisions\/248232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}