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But the proposal was voted down earlier this month by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.

Even if the subcommission’s vote is upheld and the Anthropocene proposal is rebuffed, the new epoch could still be added to the timeline at some later point.

They note that the online tally, in which 12 out of 18 subcommission members voted against the proposal, was leaked to the press without approval of the panel’s chair.

Opponents also felt AWG made too many announcements to the press over the years while being slow to submit a proposal to the subcommission.

Eleven days after the war began, Putin empaneled a special “subcommission” there to review requests to sell.