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A paper published by Charles D.\u00a0Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and coauthors in the journal Tellus, \u201c<\/em>Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii,\u201d tracks increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory, finding that \u201cthe annual average CO2<\/sub>\u00a0concentration rose 3.4% between 1959 and 1971\u2026 Similar changes in rate have been observed at the South Pole and are evidently a global phenomenon.\u201d The Keeling Curve shows measurements dating back to 1958 at Mauna Loa and as it later develops incorporates ice core records to show CO2<\/sub> measurements dating back to 1700.*<\/sup>\u00a0As CarbonBrief<\/em> comments: \u201cWith the Mauna Loa measurements continuing today,\u00a0the so-called \u2018Keeling curve\u2019 is the longest continuous record of carbon dioxide concentration in the world.\u00a0Its historical significance and striking simplicity has made it one of the most iconic visualizations of climate change.\u201d**<\/sup><\/p>\n \u2014 EXTRA \u2014 *<\/sup>Charles D.\u00a0Keeling and others, \u201cAtmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Moana Loa Observatory, Hawaii,\u201dTellus, <\/em>Vol. 28, Issue 6, December, 1976, http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.2153-3490.1976.tb00701.x\/abstract<\/a> ; Rob Monroe, \u201cHow are ice-core data and Mauna Loa atmospheric data made comparable?\u201d Scripps Institution of\u00a0 Oceanography, March 20, 2014, https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/programs\/keelingcurve\/2014\/03\/20\/how-are-ice-core-data-and-mauna-loa-atmospheric-data-made-comparable<\/a> 1976 Charles D.\u00a0Keeling creates the \u201cKeeling Curve,\u201d a simple visualization of the longest continuous record of CO2 concentration in the world. A paper published by Charles D.\u00a0Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and coauthors in the journal Tellus, \u201cAtmospheric carbon dioxide variations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii,\u201d tracks increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide measured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[19,25,27,28,29,36,87,109,119,162,166,170,182],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20th-century","category-science","tag-atmospheric","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-carbonbrief","tag-charles-david-keeling","tag-charles-keeling","tag-climate-change-papers","tag-ice-core-records","tag-keeling-curve","tag-mauna-loa","tag-rob-monroe","tag-roz-pidcock","tag-scripps-institution-of-oceanography","tag-tellus"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u00bb See a video on the Keeling Curve<\/a>\u00a0on Vimeo
\n\u00bb New York Times 2010 article<\/a> reflecting on Keeling’s life<\/p>\n
\n**<\/sup>Roz Pidcock, \u201cThe Most Influential Climate Change Papers of All Time,\u201d CarbonBrief, <\/em>June 7, 2015, http:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/the-most-influential-climate-change-papers-of-all-time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"