Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo...
by titojankowski on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:20AM
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Great suggestion, thanks! We will expand upon that in our Data Sources section, and also improve the labeling on the graph.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo...
by mturmon on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:41PM
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Oops, the TCCON link I gave is dead. Use instead: https://tccon-wiki.caltech.edu, or http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo...
by yakitori on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:16PM
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The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo...
by titojankowski on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:22PM
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We chose "carbondoomsday" to be provocative, and to push into a silly level of seriousness about climate change. Similar to http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/
Similarly, the "global" CO2 number you display as text may be (?) an average of selected ground-based stations.
CO2 varies with altitude, and with time and spatially, of course. The ground-based stations give part of the picture, but there are also various total-column CO2 measurements, prominently from TCCON (http://tccon.ornl.gov/), and remote-sensing measurements (https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/).
This is why clarifying what you mean by "global CO2" is important. In the light of the sophistication of what's out there, it might be good to think about where you're trying to add value.