50th Anniversary of the Global Carbon Dioxide Record
Symposium and Celebration

Reporters' Corner

Symposium Report: www.co2conference.org- Earth’s inhabitants face a global environmental crisis that is projected to include increased land and water temperatures, rising sea levels, changing precipitation patterns, increased extreme weather events such as heat waves, acidification of oceans, and resultant loss of species. In combination, these changes could cause major disruptions to ecosystems, economies and even, as the Nobel Committee recently recognized, world peace.Adobe Acrobat File (pdf)

Media Advisory: Carbon Dioxide Symposium to Highlight Science, Impacts, Economics of Greenhouse Gas BuildupAdobe Acrobat File (pdf)

Science Perspectives Piece www.sciencemag.org-- Ralph Keeling wrote a Science Perspectives article about the global CO2 measurements that his father began recording 50 years ago and the lesson these data offer about the importance of continuous Earth observations. (link)

Science Perspectives Piece www.sciencemag.org-- One of the products of this conference is the Science Perspectives article about future GHG measurement systems, titled “Carbon Crucible.” For press coverage of this article, see below (link):

Media Links:

WMO's Newsletter
http://www.wmo.ch/pages/publications/meteoworld/anniversaries_en.html - In the face of decades of increasing world demand for energy, scientists have made tremendous strides toward understanding and reducing uncertainty in key areas of climate change. They have not, however, made comparable progress in helping the public grasp the implications of these findings. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/450789a.html - On-the-ground monitoring is unglamorous work, seldom rewarded by funding agencies or the science community. But we neglect it at our peril, warns Euan Nisbet. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/covers/index.html - Nearly fifty years ago... Charles Keeling and colleagues began a series of measurements of atmospheric CO2 on Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Star Bulletin
http://starbulletin.com/2007/12/03/news/story04.html - Scientists and government officials gathering on the Big Island last week warned that the first signs of global warming already are clear and demand prompt action. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7120770.stm - Its name - the Keeling Curve - may be scarcely known outside scientific circles, but the jagged upward slope showing rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere has become one of the most famous graphs in science, and a potent symbol of our times. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

KHNL.com
http://www.khnl.com/global/story.asp?s=7412436 - A conference going on this week in Kona is helping to shape the future of the world as we know it. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

SignOnSanDiego.com
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20071128-2033-wst-carbondioxideconference.html - Dozens of experts gathered this week on the Big Island to recognize 50 years of continuous carbon dioxide measurements and research into human-caused climate change. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Dailycamera.com
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/dec/16/ the-heat-is-on-scientific-understanding-of-the/ (Registration may be required) - When humanity attacks a global environmental problem, it can succeed. The record shows this. Exhibit A is the Montreal Protocol, an international pact that required sharp restrictions on chemicals that deplete stratospheric ozone, which intercepts dangerous ultraviolet radiation. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Dailycamera.com
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/nov/27/no-headline---27anoa/
(Registration may be required) - A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder shows that millions of extra tons of carbon dioxide were left in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of the 2002 drought across North America. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Mongabay.com
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1126-carbon_tracker.html - A new system for tracking carbon uptake in North America, shows that deciduous forests along the East Coast (32 percent) and the boreal coniferous forests (22 percent) of northern Canada absorbed the bulk of carbon dioxide emissions between 2000 and 2005, but suggests that climate change may increasingly affect carbon sinks, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Wallstreet Journal
www.wsj.com - One mystery of global warming underlies all others: Nobody knows precisely where all the world's carbon dioxide ends up every year.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

AGU.org
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007EO430003.shtml - The 50th anniversary of the global CO2 record, begun by Charles David Keeling at the South Pole and in Hawaii in 1957, will be celebrated at a symposium in Kona, Hawaii, near the Mauna Loa Observatory, on 28-30 November 2007.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Press Coverage of ‘Carbon Crucible’:

CU Press Release
www.colorado.edu - Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

U.K. Coverage
www.inthenews.co.uk - A global greenhouse gas data collection network needs to be created that is ten times the size of the one currently in place, scientists say.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Yahoo News
in.news.yahoo.com - Researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA have called for a 10-fold increase in global CO2 monitoring efforts to measure reduction trends in regions.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Thanindian News
www.thaindian.com/ - Researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA have called for a 10-fold increase in global CO2 monitoring efforts to measure reduction trends in regions.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

TopNew.In
www.topnews.in - Researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA have called for a 10-fold increase in global CO2 monitoring efforts to measure reduction trends in regions.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

ScientificBlogging
www.scientificblogging.com - Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

EnergySavingTrust U.K.
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk - A global greenhouse gas data collection network needs to be created that is ten times the size of the one currently in place, scientists say.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

ScienceDaily
www.sciencedaily.com - Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

PhysOrg.com
www.physorg.com - Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

AGGI & Carbon Crucible
www.carbonpositive.net/ - The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere increased by 19 billion tonnes last year, a rise of 0.6 per cent, lifting the concentration of the main greenhouse gas to 385 parts per million (ppm).Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

CIRES Press Release
http://cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2008/regionalCO2monitoring.html -Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.Adobe Acrobat File(pdf)

Financial Times
http://www.ft.com -Sir, Successive British prime ministers – from Margaret Thatcher to Gordon Brown – and their governments have taken a strong interest in climate change, and have given a measure of global political leadership in trying to cope with its effects.