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Re: Data Plot of the Day

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Data Plot of the Day
> 
> 
>> http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/news/tease/2013/11/21/Keeling_Curve.jpg
> 
>> Graphs don't often seize the public's attention. But the Keeling
>> Curve is one that did.

No, it didn't.

>> It's hard to imagine today's discussions about climate change without
>> the iconic chart. For more than half a century, scientists at the
>> Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla have used it to plot
>> the rise of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. But with funding
>> increasingly hard to come by, the project's future is uncertain.

Now we get to the heart of the matter; be afraid and give us money.

>> Scripps researcher Charles David Keeling launched the Keeling Curve
>> in 1958 and kept it alive by applying for grant renewals every few
>> years. Today, his son Ralph Keeling has expanded the project to
>> include oxygen measurements and other data points.

The boy obviously knew a cash cow when he saw one.

>> But the younger Keeling still writes the same grant proposals and
>> collects the same atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna
>> Loa in Hawaii. He says the data collected there offered some of the
>> first evidence that human activity was contributing to global
>> warming: "It started the research agenda back in the 1960s by showing
>> that something big was really happening."
 
I am important, send me money.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Data Plot of the Day Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 09:59 -0600
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