Keeling Curve plays big role in documenting cause of climate change

Consistent growth in CO2 pollution has been documented for fifty years by the

The Keeling Curve

TIMELINE: carbon monitoring

1957: Charles David Keeling starts work monitoring CO2 at the South Pole and Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

1958: Keeling starts first direct continuous atmospheric measurements of CO2

Early 1970s: Noaa, the US federal agency, starts monitoring CO2 worldwide

1995-2003: Noaa's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) at Boulder, Colorado, develops and maintains the world's standard references for CO2 and other greenhouse gases

For more information about the problem of CO2 increases and potential solutions, please visit Website of the
Carbon Caps Task Force at the following link:
Carbon Caps Task Force blogspot

Many items there will be submitted by members of the governor's commission on global warming, particularly by Robert McAfee and Art Hobson.