Human beings are changing the climate of the earth 170 times faster than the power of nature

ByBeth Scupham

The environment such as global warming, air pollution, deforestation and the like is often talked about in recent years, but to what extent human beings are affecting the environment of the earth is not understood in fact. However, the research team at the Australian National University devised an "equation" that can quantify the influence of human activities on the earth, and clarified how much influence the human race has on climate change.

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German who won the Nobel Prize in ChemistryPaul KurtzenThe earth is "Human beingI decided to enter a new era called "Hitosensoi". "Human New Generation" is the geological time of recent years that human activities have greatly influenced the earth, and in this time the influence of human beings on the earth gives nature to the earth It is defined as being as influential as possible.

ByAshley.adcox

Professor Owen Gaffney, who led the research team at the Australian National University, has undoubtedly had the greatest influence on the "earth system" in the past 4.5 billion years as astronomical and geophysical It is an element. This "earth system" is defined as Professor Gaffney as a biosphere that contains the interaction with the atmosphere, hydrosphere and the ice zone. However, about 60 years before the beginning of the New Generation, human activity has exceptionally rapid changes to the Earth system, Professor Gaffney said, "Nature gives the earth the impact of human activities on the earth It is a level comparable to the impact. "

In order to investigate how much humans are affecting the Earth system, professors Gaffney and others have created an equation "Anthropocene Equation" which calculates the rate of change of the Earth system.

Equations formulated by professor Gaffney and others. According to Professor Gaffney, during the past 4 billion years, the change rate (E) of the earth system was a complex function of astronomy (A), geophysics (G) and internal dynamics (I). "H" of the equation means "a function of an industrialized society".


According to Professor Gaffney, it takes a long time until the influence is applied to astronomy (A), geophysics (G), internal dynamics (I) by the equation, and it is difficult for an event to occur such as " It will converge to 0. It is said that the rate of change of the Earth system by these three factors is expressed as "rising temperature of the atmosphere" to be "0.01 degree per century".

However, in the past 45 years, the change rate of the Earth system rose to "1.7 degrees per century". This seems that the influence of human activity will be 170 times faster than the change of the climate of the earth. Professor Gaffney concludes that "If we do not reduce climate change caused by human-induced things, there is the possibility of causing social collapse."