Grist: In 1958, Charles Keeling began measuring the the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Decades later, scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory are still measuring, creating "the world`s longest unbroken record" of that data. They`re the ones responsible for the upkeep of this famous graph:
It must be kind of terrifying to track carbon concentrations on a daily basis as they tick slowly upwards. And sometimes when you`re watching something depressing, you just have to share it. So the Scripps...