Talk:Timeline of environmental history

message: --Alex 08:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

message: This article contains geological, meterological and weather related events. These affect the environment.  The word environmental is generally a reference to the effects of human activity on the environment. Alan Liefting 11:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The first definition of "environmental" here is "the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded" and WP:NC says article names "should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists."  I think the article name is reasonable.  Are you proposing a change? —RandallJones 22:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to remove all the geological, meterological and evolutionary events and then rename the article as Timeline of human induced environmental events, Timeline of antropogenic environmental events or suchlike. This prevents a double-up of events that are already on other timelines and reduces clutter and size of the timeline. It will also give it a clearer focus. Alan Liefting 03:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental vs Environment. 

message: Many entries at List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament to 1601 can also be listed here. -- Wavelength (talk) 07:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional entries 

message: "3900 BC: Intense aridification triggered worldwide migration to river valleys, which might have caused changes in human behaviour, such as patriarchy, institutionalised warfare, social stratification, abuse of children, the development of thehuman ego, separation from the body (afterlife and reincarnation worship), the rise of anthropomorphic gods and the concept of linear historic time. A possible inspiration for the myth/legend of the fall of man."  
  
Those are a lot of far-reaching claims. Some of these claims seem like they could have some decent reasoning behind them, but they definitely need a source to back them up. But there are also claims that seem extremely random and impossible to determine via enviromental causes. Intense aridification caused abuse of children??? How the hell are you going to prove that or even provide a reasonable chain of logic for??? Omegastar (talk) 01:08, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please source this part and possible edit it 

message: 1950 should replace post-1945 that is piped to Postwar period, as  — due to events  given in the table — 1950 is the origin year for the time scale Before Present. Alternatively, add to the table words to the effect of, "resulting in the year 1950 being" etc. —Pawyilee (talk) 08:20, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1950  

message: The line about Hurricane Sandy is overstated: "Hurricane Sandy devastates the eastern third of North America, from Florida to Quebec, and from Michigan to Nova Scotia, as the largest Atlantic basin hurricane in history."  The entire area described was certainly not "devastated".  Further, the majority of the damage in the northeast occurred once Sandy was extra-tropical. Bgovern (talk) 05:11, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurricane Sandy Overstated? 

message: This timeline has included the event "Old Man in the Mountain formed in New Hampshire by retreating glaciers" since 2011.  That really doesn't strike me as a pivotal, game-changing, earth-shattering, timeline-worthy event.  Especially considering he fell in 2003 and can't get up.  And life goes on as usual, without anyone even seeming to notice that his tweets have dried up and he is no longer posting what he ate for breakfast on FaceBook every day or trying to convince us that restoring him to his former prominence is what will Make America Great Again (tm).
I was just going to delete the event until I realized its possibly noteworthy point of the glacial retreat.  The incidental creation of the OMitM artifact isn't even worth a mention, it's just a secondary effect being misleadingly billed as the main event.
So, if that event is worthy of maintaining in the timeline, I suggest it be changed to the more-to-the-point and less distracting and marginally less provincial "Glaciers retreat from the northeastern United States".
But it would be even better to remove it entirely or replace it with something more general about glacial retreat in North America.
06:04, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Man in the Mountain?  Really? 

message: While the information presented on this page seems to be unbiased in writing, there is a lack of certain environmental events talked about. This inclusion of certain events like Sputnik and not environmental events like the transformation of grasslands due to human farming and other environmental shifts shows bias. These environmental transformations are crucial in a timeline of environmental history and are currently underrepresented. Additionally environmental information could be added to the 2013, and on part. This is slightly out of date because there have been many cases of human caused environmental damage in the past three. Years, this just needs to be updated slightly. Additionally, there could be more information about rising temperatures in the atmosphere and with the oceans. There is some non neutral wording in describing events of the past. Also the Tehenu link does not work. Other then that there is a relatively comprehensive list of environmental events. More could be added about the industrial revolution and ozone layer depletion because those are both notable occurrences.
Theamhanson (talk) 22:25, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Evaluation of Page Bias

message: As of this revision, I find a lot of political events listed (e.g., the founding of Rome) which have little or no significant environmental impact. On the other hand, some human events which do have some environmental impacts (e.g. the Periclean plague) are omitted. Is there a clear criteria for inclusion & exclusion of events? If there isn't, I might just be bold & delete the events I believe lack significant environmental relevance. -- llywrch (talk) 07:38, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant entries?