Because IPCC - A 15 min graphic read - History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A True Story from 100 Years in the Future – History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The scene is a classroom in the year 2120. Students are filing into the class and taking their seats as the teacher prepares the for the lesson. They greet each other.
This is the 3rd page of the print version of the graphic novel book Because IPCC - first page of the online version. There are three illustrated panels on this page.
Dialogue:
Good morning Ms Daskalos.
Good morning everyone.

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pg4

Four panes on this page of the graphic novel book Because IPCC show the teacher announcing the topic of the day and interacting with students.
Dialogue:
Ok class, today we’ll be learning about…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Does anyone know what that is?
It’s the thing that saved the world, right?
Yes, Wang Wei, that’s one way of putting it.
Does anyone know how the IPCC saved the world?

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Third online page shows teacher using projector to show oil drilling, car exhaust and coal mining.
Dialogue:
There’s a hint there in the name.
The world had a big problem… with climate change.
Back then a lot of the world’s electricity came from burning a kind of flammable rock called coal.
Cars were powered, and houses were heated, and factories were run, using not vegetable oil or biogas, but liquids and gasses from underground – like those flammable rocks.

No matter how clean the smoke was from all that burning, it was still full of an invisible gas called carbon dioxide

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