Pyrocene

English Etymology From en pyro cene, en Q16734788 1 1 2016. Proper noun - The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires. en Stephen J. Pyne Welcome to the Pyrocene Slate on 2016-05-16 https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/the-fort-mcmurray-fire-climate-change-and-our-fossil-fuel-powered-society.html 1091-2339 Those images of fire on fire are the raw footage of a planetary phase change, what might end up as a geologic era we could call the Pyrocene. They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240320053609/https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/the-fort-mcmurray-fire-climate-change-and-our-fossil-fuel-powered-society.html 20 March 2024 en The planet is burning Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-is-burning-around-us-is-it-time-to-declare-the-pyrocene 2019-11-20 Stephen J. Pyne Instead of ice sheets, glaciers and periglacial environments adjacent to the ice, a Pyrocene manifests itself with fire-informed biotas, fire-starved biotas, hot spots where fire is the dominant energy source, peripyric landscapes where humans equipped with pyrotechnologies have reshaped the scene, and of course a warming atmosphere and unhinged climate that passes over the planet. 5 May 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230412100700/https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-is-burning-around-us-is-it-time-to-declare-the-pyrocene 12 April 2023 en 3 January 2020 Matt Simon Australia Is Blazing Into the Pyrocene—the Age of Fire https://www.wired.com/story/australia-is-blazing-into-the-pyrocene-the-age-of-fire/ Wired The supercharged blazes of the Pyrocene are putting millions upon millions of people around the world directly at risk, and even larger populations indirectly at risk with smoke. en Graham Lawton The dawn of the pyrocene New Scientist 28 August 2021 https://archive.org/details/new-scientist-2021-12-18/New%20Scientist%20-%202021-08-28/page/n25/mode/2up?q=pyrocene 24 But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive. en 2021 Dale G. Nimmo; Alexandra J. R. Carthey; Chris J. Jolly; Daniel T. Blumstein Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of the megafire Global Change Biology 27 22 November The insights gained by such research will be essential to manage animal populations in the Pyrocene. en en Climate change Fire Geological periods