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In memorium: Charles David Keeling 1928-2005
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Paul Zimmerman Send message Joined: 22 Jan 05 Posts: 1440 Credit: 11 RAC: 0 |
Charles David Keeling, chemist, oceanographer and atmospheric scientist: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 20 April 1928; Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1953-56; Assistant Research Chemist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 1956-60, Assistant Professor of Oceanography 1964-68, Professor of Oceanography 1968-2003 (Emeritus); .....died Hamilton, Montana 20 June 2005. The American climate scientist Charles David Keeling measured and showed the world what will probably turn out to be the most deadly impact of all, the one which does indeed put a question mark over the future of the planet itself: the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, now widely accepted to be causing global warming, with potentially catastrophic effect. ....the grand old man of CO2 explained, in disturbing detail, the pressure that the Bush administration was now putting on US climate scientists to keep quiet about any inconvenient facts or research that might support the idea that global warming was happening. The usual threat, he said, was a simple but dire one - your funding would be cut. Keeling did not want that to happen to him: even though he was then 76, he was still in active charge of the Carbon Dioxide Research Group at Scripps. At the end of our talk he said: "Give me 24 hours to think about it." The following day he had made his choice: he would speak on the record. The increase in the rate of CO2 accumulation was a real and worrying phenomenon, he said - and the story went round the world. Keeling knew that what he had been recording so tellingly for nearly half a century was far too important for all our futures to keep quiet about; history will surely bear him out. Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize "I can think of no individual who has made a more significant contribution to the modern science of global change research or to our understanding of the global carbon cycle, and therefore, no one more deserving of the world's most distinguished prize for environmental science." In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Keeling with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research. |
Paul Zimmerman has no class Send message Joined: 10 Apr 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,791 RAC: 0 |
Closed because the author is an asshole! |
Paul Zimmerman has no class Send message Joined: 10 Apr 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,791 RAC: 0 |
Closed because the author is an asshole! |
Paul Zimmerman has no class Send message Joined: 10 Apr 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,791 RAC: 0 |
Closed because the author is an asshole! |
Paul Zimmerman has no class Send message Joined: 10 Apr 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,791 RAC: 0 |
Closed because the author is an asshole! |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
.o0(I guess the author must be an a-hole.) |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
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