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Figure 2.4.16 The second Keeling Curve: Oxygen
(inset) Charles Keeling (left) and son Ralph in 1983. A kitchen table conversation led to
the younger's Keeling's interest in atmospheric oxygen measurements. Figures from the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography .

idea was at fi rst received very skeptically by the scientifi c community.
The beauty of science is that this skepticism was translated into new
experiments that could prove or disprove whether these bold ideas were
correct. These new experiments have shown that global temperatures
are increasing, the oceans are rising, glaciers are retracting, and the
world's weather has become more extreme. And little by little the skepti-
cism has been replaced by a large body of evidence that all points to the
same conclusion. Whether we like it or not climate change is real, and
humans are the cause of it.