pyrocene
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "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."
- "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."
- "But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive."
- "The insights gained by such research will be essential to manage animal populations in the Pyrocene."