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Jim

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So, what's happened to the Keeling Curve site?
« on: June 12, 2016, 12:15:45 AM »
Hi Guys,
I've noticed that the Keeling Curve website has been inactive for the whole of June, the last recorded CO2 readings were on May 31st.
At first I thought it might be a technical problem - there have been short outages before - but this does seem a rather long period without any updates or information at all.

Does anyone have any knowledge as to what is happening/has happened? Have they run out of funding or has there been some equipment problems, or something else?
Cheers!
Jim

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Re: So, what's happened to the Keeling Curve site?
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2016, 05:14:17 AM »
Their twitter posts lately have been a long list of communications outages and equipment down.

https://twitter.com/Keeling_curve

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Re: So, what's happened to the Keeling Curve site?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2016, 01:57:22 AM »
Thanks ghoti, that explains a lot - let's hope they get back up and running soon, and with the data record intact!

Their twitter posts lately have been a long list of communications outages and equipment down.

https://twitter.com/Keeling_curve

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Re: So, what's happened to the Keeling Curve site?
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2016, 12:12:50 AM »
Well, it looks like they've finally sorted out their instrument problems!  :D
...Although it looks like they don't have data for the time they were 'off-line' - let's hope it is still recorded somewhere in their systems, and it is just taking a while to extract.