Huge NYT article on Charles David Keeling, the scientist who first measured the increased carbon in the atmosphere. The Keeling curve, as its now known, shows a steady increase in CO2 concentrations in our air over the past century. Keeling also discovered the seasonal variations of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I thought the biography of the man was quite fascinating. He was a stickler for getting the measurements and the process precisely correct, and his golden rule was “no hanky-panky.
Keeling’s widow said her husband would have been dismayed about how the factual issues had been politicized. “He was a registered Republican,” she said. “He just didn’t think of it as a political issue at all.”
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Science . . . It works, Bitches.
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Source:
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
JUSTIN GILLIS
NYT, December 21, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon.html
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