§ 74. Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department is monitoring the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
§ Mr. MoynihanAlthough the Department does not monitor carbon dioxide concentrations directly, we keep in close touch with the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration laboratories which maintains the definitive long-term records such as that at Mauna, Loa, Hawaii. The Department does monitor concentrations of many other important greenhouse gases (eg Methane, CFCs) in co-operation with NASA and University college, Galway, at a clean site in Western Ireland, which has been established with the co-operation of the Department of the Environment of the Republic of Ireland.