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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.
Even after those first scorching millennia, however, the planet has sometimes been much warmer than it is now. One of the warmest times was during the geologic period known as the Neoproterozoic, between 600 and 800 million years ago. Another âwarm ageâ is a period geologists call the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which occurred about 56 million years ago. Cartoon by Emily Greenhalgh, NOAA Climate.gov.