October 15, 2020
Keeling Curve Receives Continuation Funding from Eric and Wendy Schmidt $1.45M grants support Keeling Curve, ocean pH programs, key indicators of global warming Wendy and Eric Schmidt. Photo by Spencer Brown. The Keeling Curve carbon dioxide measurement—the long-term atmospheric measurement that alerted the world to human-induced climate change—will receive $1…
April 23, 2013
For the first time in human history, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2 ) could rise above 400 parts per million (ppm) for sustained lengths of time throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere as soon as May 2013.
December 12, 2012
The Charles David Keeling apartments on the campus of the University of California, San Diego have won the 2012 President’s Award by the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
June 2, 2015
The American Chemical Society will designate the Keeling Curve – a long-term record of rising carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere – as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a ceremony June 12 on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego campus.
November 27, 2023
For the first time, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have published nearly four decades’ worth of dissolved carbon dioxide measurements from waters off Southern California.
April 24, 2013
The University of California, San Diego has been named one of the most environmentally responsible “green colleges” in the U.S. and Canada by the Princeton Review.
April 23, 2020
Shane Clark of the Keeling lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography collects an air sample at the end of Scripps Pier. Coronavirus Global Slowdown Is Cleaning the Skies. How Long Will It Last? Scripps Oceanography climate scientists ponder what episode tells us about global warming Ralph Keeling The coronavirus pandemic…
August 12, 2014
The University of California, San Diego has been ranked the 17th “Coolest School” by Sierra magazine for displaying a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate issues and encouraging environmental responsibility. The eighth annual “Coolest Schools” list was published today by Sierra magazine, a publication of the…
June 8, 2023
CO2 levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 424 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego announced this week.
April 21, 2022
…our planet. Charles David Keeling starting measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in 1958. These measurements, now known as the Keeling Curve, would become the foundation for modern climate change science. Photo credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography / UC San Diego. “UC San Diego has been a leading research institution studying…
