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Alex Sen Gupta, Associate Professor in Climate Science, UNSW Sydney

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down

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The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896.

But it wasn’t until the 1950s that scientists could definitively detect the effect of human activities on the Earth’s atmosphere.

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