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Message 129231 - Posted: 28 Jun 2005, 4:32:56 UTC



Charles David Keeling, chemist, oceanographer and atmospheric scientist: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 20 April 1928;

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1953-56; Assistant Research Chemist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 1956-60, Assistant Professor of Oceanography 1964-68, Professor of Oceanography 1968-2003 (Emeritus);

.....died Hamilton, Montana 20 June 2005.

The American climate scientist Charles David Keeling measured and showed the world what will probably turn out to be the most deadly impact of all, the one which does indeed put a question mark over the future of the planet itself: the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, now widely accepted to be causing global warming, with potentially catastrophic effect.



....the grand old man of CO2 explained, in disturbing detail, the pressure that the Bush administration was now putting on US climate scientists to keep quiet about any inconvenient facts or research that might support the idea that global warming was happening. The usual threat, he said, was a simple but dire one - your funding would be cut.

Keeling did not want that to happen to him: even though he was then 76, he was still in active charge of the Carbon Dioxide Research Group at Scripps.

At the end of our talk he said: "Give me 24 hours to think about it."

The following day he had made his choice: he would speak on the record. The increase in the rate of CO2 accumulation was a real and worrying phenomenon, he said - and the story went round the world.

Keeling knew that what he had been recording so tellingly for nearly half a century was far too important for all our futures to keep quiet about; history will surely bear him out.

Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize


"I can think of no individual who has made a more significant contribution to the modern science of global change research or to our understanding of the global carbon cycle, and therefore, no one more deserving of the world's most distinguished prize for environmental science."

In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Keeling with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research.

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Message 130904 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 4:54:25 UTC
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Closed because the author is an asshole!

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Message 130909 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 4:57:21 UTC
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LOL! Oh damn. Someone beat me to it. Now I have even more free time.
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Message 130914 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 5:03:10 UTC

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.
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Message 130918 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 5:05:06 UTC - in response to Message 130914.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!
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Message 130921 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 5:06:50 UTC - in response to Message 130918.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.
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Message 131005 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 9:48:03 UTC - in response to Message 130904.  



..........



The copy of an account leaves a trail.... easily followed too. See ya.
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Message 131024 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:43:01 UTC - in response to Message 130921.  
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Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?




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Message 131025 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:44:13 UTC - in response to Message 131024.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?





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Message 131026 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:44:52 UTC - in response to Message 131025.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


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I'll donate this couple just for fun! Wee...
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Message 131028 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:47:17 UTC - in response to Message 129231.  
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Just in case some may have missed it..... this thread was a memorium to a man who died recently....

(....some think their 'playground' knows no bounds.) ....pitiful, no?



Charles David Keeling, chemist, oceanographer and atmospheric scientist: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 20 April 1928;

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1953-56; Assistant Research Chemist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 1956-60, Assistant Professor of Oceanography 1964-68, Professor of Oceanography 1968-2003 (Emeritus);

.....died Hamilton, Montana 20 June 2005.

The American climate scientist Charles David Keeling measured and showed the world what will probably turn out to be the most deadly impact of all, the one which does indeed put a question mark over the future of the planet itself: the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, now widely accepted to be causing global warming, with potentially catastrophic effect.



....the grand old man of CO2 explained, in disturbing detail, the pressure that the Bush administration was now putting on US climate scientists to keep quiet about any inconvenient facts or research that might support the idea that global warming was happening. The usual threat, he said, was a simple but dire one - your funding would be cut.

Keeling did not want that to happen to him: even though he was then 76, he was still in active charge of the Carbon Dioxide Research Group at Scripps.

At the end of our talk he said: "Give me 24 hours to think about it."

The following day he had made his choice: he would speak on the record. The increase in the rate of CO2 accumulation was a real and worrying phenomenon, he said - and the story went round the world.

Keeling knew that what he had been recording so tellingly for nearly half a century was far too important for all our futures to keep quiet about; history will surely bear him out.

Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize


"I can think of no individual who has made a more significant contribution to the modern science of global change research or to our understanding of the global carbon cycle, and therefore, no one more deserving of the world's most distinguished prize for environmental science."

In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Keeling with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research.


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Message 131029 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:48:00 UTC - in response to Message 131026.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?





Anybody???





I'll donate this couple just for fun! Wee...



Ooops--- *intentional* double post
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Message 131032 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:49:47 UTC - in response to Message 131029.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?





Anybody???





I'll donate this couple just for fun! Wee...



Ooops--- *intentional* double post



Gives another meaning to "pin stribes"!



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Message 131034 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:50:21 UTC - in response to Message 131032.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?





Anybody???





I'll donate this couple just for fun! Wee...



Ooops--- *intentional* double post



Gives another meaning to "pin stribes"!





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Message 131035 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 10:50:32 UTC - in response to Message 131028.  

Just in case some may have missed it..... this thread was a memorium to a man who died recently....

(....some think their 'playground' knows no bounds.) ....pitiful, no?



Charles David Keeling, chemist, oceanographer and atmospheric scientist: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 20 April 1928;

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1953-56; Assistant Research Chemist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 1956-60, Assistant Professor of Oceanography 1964-68, Professor of Oceanography 1968-2003 (Emeritus);

.....died Hamilton, Montana 20 June 2005.

The American climate scientist Charles David Keeling measured and showed the world what will probably turn out to be the most deadly impact of all, the one which does indeed put a question mark over the future of the planet itself: the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, now widely accepted to be causing global warming, with potentially catastrophic effect.



....the grand old man of CO2 explained, in disturbing detail, the pressure that the Bush administration was now putting on US climate scientists to keep quiet about any inconvenient facts or research that might support the idea that global warming was happening. The usual threat, he said, was a simple but dire one - your funding would be cut.

Keeling did not want that to happen to him: even though he was then 76, he was still in active charge of the Carbon Dioxide Research Group at Scripps.

At the end of our talk he said: "Give me 24 hours to think about it."

The following day he had made his choice: he would speak on the record. The increase in the rate of CO2 accumulation was a real and worrying phenomenon, he said - and the story went round the world.

Keeling knew that what he had been recording so tellingly for nearly half a century was far too important for all our futures to keep quiet about; history will surely bear him out.

Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize


"I can think of no individual who has made a more significant contribution to the modern science of global change research or to our understanding of the global carbon cycle, and therefore, no one more deserving of the world's most distinguished prize for environmental science."

In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Keeling with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research.



yeah, oops.... me too.

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Message 131094 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 13:16:19 UTC - in response to Message 131024.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?

What blue lines....? >:-)

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Message 131096 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 13:17:27 UTC - in response to Message 131025.  

Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?


Anybody???

Sure....!!!!
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Message 131097 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 13:17:50 UTC - in response to Message 131094.  
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Hey, Paul Zimmerman SUCKs. The URL link in your otherwise accurate profile appears to be as broken as PZ's logic.

You actually wanted to go there? Eewww!

HE (double toothpicks), it's 1:05 a.m. what else do I have to do? I'm on my last cold one and killing time.


What about a little game of blue lines?

What blue lines....? >:-)

Blue lines I don't see no stinking blue lines.....

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Message 131101 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 13:19:18 UTC - in response to Message 131028.  

Irrelevance deleted....

Since the thread was dead, anything goes asshole....

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Message 131150 - Posted: 1 Jul 2005, 15:16:01 UTC - in response to Message 131035.  
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Just in case some may have missed it..... this thread is offered in a memorium to a man who died recently....

(....some think their 'playground' knows no bounds.) ....pitiful, no?



Charles David Keeling, chemist, oceanographer and atmospheric scientist: born Scranton, Pennsylvania 20 April 1928;

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1953-56; Assistant Research Chemist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 1956-60, Assistant Professor of Oceanography 1964-68, Professor of Oceanography 1968-2003 (Emeritus);

.....died Hamilton, Montana 20 June 2005.

The American climate scientist Charles David Keeling measured and showed the world what will probably turn out to be the most deadly impact of all, the one which does indeed put a question mark over the future of the planet itself: the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, now widely accepted to be causing global warming, with potentially catastrophic effect.



....the grand old man of CO2 explained, in disturbing detail, the pressure that the Bush administration was now putting on US climate scientists to keep quiet about any inconvenient facts or research that might support the idea that global warming was happening. The usual threat, he said, was a simple but dire one - your funding would be cut.

Keeling did not want that to happen to him: even though he was then 76, he was still in active charge of the Carbon Dioxide Research Group at Scripps.

At the end of our talk he said: "Give me 24 hours to think about it."

The following day he had made his choice: he would speak on the record. The increase in the rate of CO2 accumulation was a real and worrying phenomenon, he said - and the story went round the world.

Keeling knew that what he had been recording so tellingly for nearly half a century was far too important for all our futures to keep quiet about; history will surely bear him out.

Scripps global climate change pioneer to receive Tyler Prize


"I can think of no individual who has made a more significant contribution to the modern science of global change research or to our understanding of the global carbon cycle, and therefore, no one more deserving of the world's most distinguished prize for environmental science."

In 2002, President George W. Bush presented Keeling with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research.



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