Carbon Detectives Are Tracking Gases in Colorado

New York Times by Susan Moran | Dec. 2, 2008 (Special Report)

The quest to track carbon began 50 years ago when an atmospheric scientist, David Keeling, cranked up an analyzer and started running the world’s first carbon dioxide-measuring observatory, at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Now, thanks to an expanding combination of atmospheric and land-based measuring techniques, scientists can quantify more precisely the sources and sinks of CO2. They also better understand how heat-trapping gases vary over time and space, not ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Global Warming, Science, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Dec 2, 2008 - 11:17 AM PST
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Derek Hawkins (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Norman Rogers (review), Jay Mulberry (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Joel Kulenkamp (review), Fred Gatlin (review)
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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 2, 2008

Quality story on different methods of measuring greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Good mix of factual evidence and anecdotes that give it texture.

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Fred Gatlin
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 by Fred Gatlin - Dec. 2, 2008

It appears that there are many biases about sources and users of green house gasses. The research described in this article is important to find out actual levels of green house gasses and uses of green house gasses

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 2, 2008

The article provides some insight into scientific progress in monitoring carbon dioxide levels.

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 2, 2008
Kaizar posted this story.
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Fabrice Florin
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Joel Kulenkamp
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Norman Rogers
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 by Norman Rogers - Dec. 2, 2008

An informative story. Vague on the details.

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Jay Mulberry
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 by Jay Mulberry - Dec. 2, 2008

Excellent story, unusually detailed and explanatory for something on this subject, though not unusual for the New York Times.

The facts in the story were new and interesting to me but for someone who has followed global warming less intently they would have value added. The underscore the intensity with which serious scientists have gathered evidence over a long period of time that now are beginning to clarify the complex workings of global warming. No one who reads this carefully can be satisfied with the quick, shallow "insights" of climate change skeptics again.

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