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The conference chairman kept referring to the Holocene, the epoch that began at the end of the last ice age, 11,500 years ago, and thatâofficially, at leastâcontinues to this day. 'Let's stop it,' Crutzen recalls blurting out. 'We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.' Well, it was quiet in the room for a while.
Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age. The story begins in 1952, when the International Council of Scientific Unions decided to establish July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958, as the International Geophysical Year (IGY) because the scientists knew that the cycles of solar activity would be at a high point then.