If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
