Science and Technology Greenhouse-gas monitoring Not hot air
温室气体监测 而非热空气
A new, private initiative should help show which gases come from where
一项新的私人倡议或许能够表明各种气体从何而来
IN 1955 a young man called David Keeling started to measure the level of carbon dioxide inthe Californian air. It seemed of little practical value, but he liked designing and building theequipmentand driving back and forth along the Pacific Coast Highway to his sampling siteat Big Sur was fun. Scientists with a new-found interest in the world s carbon-dioxide levelssoon learned of his work and gave him a job setting up monitoring stations in Hawaii andAntarctica for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in La Jolla. He continued to work therefor almost 50 years, devoting his life to the monitoring effort. His son, Ralph, runs thecarbon-dioxide programme at Scripps to this day.
1955年,一个名为David Keeling的年轻人开始测量加利福尼亚空气中的二氧化碳含量。当时他的这一举动看起来没什么实际价值,但这个年轻人喜欢设计和制造设备乐此不疲的往返于太平洋海岸的高速公路和位于大苏尔的采样点间。新近对全球二氧化碳含量产生兴趣的科学家们得知他的所作所为后,给了他一份工作在夏威夷和南极洲拉霍亚的斯克利普斯海洋研究所设立监测站。他一直在那里工作了差不多50年,倾其一生于监测事业。他的儿子拉尔夫现在管理着斯克利普斯的二氧化碳项目。
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