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History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Twenty-seventh online page shows physician telling story about how important the issue was. Dialogue: But mainly, it’s important. Any part I could play in helping address the most pressing issue facing humanity, I’m in! How important? Let me tell you a story. Way back when, as people began to realise what climate change might mean, it hit them pretty hard. A marine ecologist was in a meeting. This was 1998. They were talking about the chemistry of seawater. How carbon dioxide in the air mixes into the oceans and changes their acidity… In an instant she had a clear vision of what was at risk… The potential collapse of marine ecosystems. Food chains might disintegrate.

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