The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called ‘Keeling curve’ that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels.

A coalition of oil and car manufacturing interests provided $13,814 (about $158,000 in today’s money) in December 1954 to fund Keeling’s earliest work in measuring CO2 levels across the western US, the documents reveal.

Keeling would go on to establish the continuous measurement of global CO2 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This ‘Keeling curve’ has tracked the steady increase of the atmospheric carbon that drives the climate crisis and has been hailed as one of the most important scientific works of modern times.

  • @Coreidan
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    211 months ago

    Shocker still no answer.

    • @doublejay1999
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      You could vote for Jeremy Corbyn or Caroline Lucas .

      • @Coreidan
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        11 months ago

        Removed by mod

        • @doublejay1999
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          Setting aside the idea that I am here to help you, you will I’m sure understand that the Guardian is an English newspaper?

          • @Coreidan
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            And once again you’ve demonstrated how ignorant you are. This article is about the US you dummy.

            Get back to me once you have something useful to provide