The+Keeling+Curve

Troy Marrotte, Mark Greener



This is a diagram borrowed from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5620 that depicts a graph of CO2 in the atmosphere called the "Keeling Curve." The name "keeling curve" comes from the line on the graph which fluxuates up and down every year, but over the passed 50 years has been increasing steadily.

The rise of carbon dioxide gas in the earths atmosphere has been tracked and measured since 1958. This curve is known as the keeling curve. Named after its founder Dr. Charles David Keeling. Keeling was the first to measure CO2 in the atmosphere on a continual basis, and discovered that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was rising.