GLOBAL WARMING:ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT.PART 5

By the time this lad entered college,and introduced to the concept of global ecological threat,it was as if as a child of destiny,he was 'at the right place,at the right time'a phrase that one of my antagonists,would aggree and opinionated that it was still the forces of destiny,that could do such,despite my contrarian position.Infact,according to him,his college professor Roger Revelle,became the first don,in the whole world to monitor carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.The same erudite don 'through sheer persistence,convinced the world scientific community to include as part of the international geophysical year- 1957-58,his plan for regularly sampling CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.His Colleague C.D.Keeling actually took measurements from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii'.He began to share this research with his students in the mid60s,in the population course,especially the dramatic results of the first 8 years of measurements whhch shows the growth of carbon dioxide every year and showed higher levels.