Proving Climate Change: The Keeling Curve - AUDIO

BBC - Louise Hidalgo

Thick black smoke blowing out of an industrial chimney. Credit: John Giles/PA

How a young American scientist began the work that would show how our climate is changing. His name was Charles Keeling and he meticulously recorded levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. His wife Louise and son Ralph spoke to Louise Hidalgo about him in 2013.

BBC WITNESS HISTORY Proving Climate Change: The Keeling Curve 8m 59sec

Links

• Wikipedia: Charles David Keeling
• Keeling Curve Prize
• Charles David Keeling and the Story of Atmospheric CO2 Measurements
• Climate change and carbon dioxide: An introduction
• Behind the Inconvenient Truth
• A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
• Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984–2000