I – Chapter 04

0100 [00:11:59] "This is, uh..the image that started me in my interest in this issue. And I saw it when I was a collage student because I had a professor named Roger Revelle who was the first person to propose measuring carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. " (Al Gore)

0200 [00:12:20] "He saw where the story was going after the first few chapters. After the first few years of data, he intuited what it meant for what was yet to come. " (Al Gore)

0300 [00:12:39] "They designed the experiment in 1957. He hired Charles David Keeling who was very faithful and precise in making these measurement for decades. They started sending these weather balloons up every day. And they chose the middle of the Pacific because it was the area that was most remote. And he was a very hard-nosed scientist. He really emphasized the hard data. " (Al Gore)

0400 [00:13:13] "It was a wonderful time for me because, like a lot of young people, I came into contact with intellectual ferment, ideas that I never considered in my wildest dreams before. He showed our class the results of his measurements after only a few years. It was startling to me. Now, he was startled and made it clear to our class what he felt the significance of it was. And I just soaked it up like a sponge. He drew the connections between the larger changes in our civilization and this pattern that was now visible in the atmosphere of the entire planet. And then he projected into the future where this was headed unless we made some adjustments. And it was just as clear as day. " (Al Gore)