Iconic CO2 Time Series at Risk

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Houweling, S., Badawy, B., Baker, D. F, Basu, S., Belikov, D., Bergamaschi, P., Bousquet, P., Broquet, G., Butler, T., Canadell, J. G, Chen, J., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Collatz, G. J, Denning, S., Engelen, R., Enting, I. G, Fischer, M. L, Fraser, A., Gerbig, C., Gloor, M., Jacobson, A. R, Jones, D. B. A, Heimann, M., Khalil, A., Kaminski, T., Kasibhatla, P. S, Krakauer, N. Y, Krol, M., Maki, T., Maksyutov, S., Manning, A., Meesters, A., Miller, J. B, Palmer, P. I, Patra, P., Peters, W., Peylin, P., Poussi, Z., Prather, M. J, Randerson, J. T, Rockmann, T., Rodenbeck, C., Sarmiento, J. L, Schimel, D. S, Scholze, M., Schuh, A., Suntharalingam, P., Takahashi, T., Turnbull, J., Yurganov, L., Vermeulen, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; carbon dioxide; carbon monoxide; fossil fuel; halocarbon; methane; air pollution; aquatic environment; carbon footprint; climate change; greenhouse gas; land use; letter; priority journal; sea; atmosphere; chemistry; Scripps; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8r48v6pz

The steady rise in atmospheric long-lived greenhouse gas concentrations is the main driver of contemporary climate change. The Mauna Loa CO2 time series (1, 2), started by C. D. Keeling in 1958 and maintained today by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Earth System Research Laboratory (...