The underlying paper is difficult to decipher but seems to find a 10%-65% increase in carbon-14. The 'natural' concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is, er, about 1 in 10^12. I can think of several words for this, but 'profound' wouldn't be on the list.https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1129180967321657344 …
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Human detection methods would be better if we didn't have to scavenge low background steel from the bottom of the ocean. Or at least, cheaper.
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They only have to be good enough to justify completely misleading and confused headlines for journalists.
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well also when the future cat civilization tires to carbon date human relics they'll get all screwed up
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I’ve wondered before how many ‘scares’ were really the result of now we can measure this thing and it just changed and that’s scary (btw we have no clue if it normally changes or what historical levels are).
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Mass spectroscopy allows for an endless supply of stupid headlines of the form 'Badthing Discovered In Baby Formula' (at concentrations of 1 part per trillion)
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Homeopathic health scares
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With an environmental contaminant as right-wing as radiation, you just can't be too careful.
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