The site features the output of some three billion measurements from the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station in Tasmania on gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
According to CSIRO's Science into Society Group leader, Peta Ashworth, the site's launch was predicated on demand from the public for more information of climate change.
“This website is one way, for those who are interested, to provide an opportunity to access information on what is happening to atmospheric levels," she said. “One of the things our work shows is that people in the community have different preferences for how they'd like to access [climate change] information, so by using the internet and actually putting this up in the way that it has it will be very well received...and help people understand what is happening on a monthly basis."
CSIRO Changing Atmosphere research group leader, Dr Paul Fraser, said the timing of the site's launch was not related to recent criticism of climate change science and scientists in mainstream media.
Fraser said the site's data was “world class" and relied upon by a number of international organisations for use in their own climate science and research. Read the full report here.
Source: Tim Lohman, Computerworld.
