During Year of Extremes, Carbon Dioxide Levels Surge Faster than Ever

Robert MonroeDaily Measurements, Keeling Curve History

Rainbow frames NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory. Photo: Brian Vasel, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory

Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today. Scientists at Scripps Oceanography, which initiated the CO2 monitoring program known as the Keeling Curve at Mauna Loa in 1958 and … Read More