Researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are scrambling to find a temporary replacement site until power can be restored to the Mauna Loa Observatory.
Humanity’s longest-running, detailed tally of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere went offline this week after Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupted on Monday.
Mauna Loa started spurting and oozing lava around 1:30 a.m. Monday, with the carbon dioxide-tracking device losing power around 6:30 p.m. The volcano’s first eruption in nearly 40 years has yet to seriously threaten any human communities, although two neighboring volcanoes on the island simultaneously erupted Tuesday.Scripps geoscientist Ralph Keeling, son of the Keeling Curve creator, said the situation is “very troubling.
The Keeling Curve shows a dramatic rise in carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere over more than half a century. The curve, today considered one of the most important records in scientific history, is carved into a wall at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. This 2019 photo provided by NOAA shows the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, high atop Hawaii’s largest mountain in order to sample well-mixed background air free of local pollution.
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