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Eighteenth online page shows more scientists at work in the field and in the lab.
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They studied how the climate was changing, the impacts of those changes, and how to avoid the worst of those impacts.
With the authors chosen, writing on the reports began in earnest. — 18 of 31

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Nineteenth online pageshows teacher introducing a physician who explains IPCC review process
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Dr Aedes could you elaborate please?
Sure Ms Daskalos.
Hello guys. I research how climate change enables new ways for disease to travel around the world.

As an IPCC author we can’t be expected right off the bat to know personally all of the research and findings that are going on, so we depend on other experts in our fields.
We connect with them, learn about new papers, read reports and talk about findings and trends.
We summarise what the latest knowledge is and share our drafts with other experts.
We invite comments and questions.
That means that anyone who thinks of themselves as an expert may ask to comment on the draft.
And for every comment or question, we authors have to produce a response, an explanation, or an answer.
For the 2014 Fifth IPCC Assessment Report there were about 140,000 reviewer queries. — 19 of 31

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Twentieth online page shows physician explaining that IPCC scientists are volunteers then teacher introducing the "summary for policymakers" concept
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But do you authors get together?
Oh, yea, looong meetings, combing through and debating every detail.
So this is like an uber peer review of scientific knowledge that’s mostly already peer reviewed and even stood the test of time with citations and all that?
Yup.
How much do you get paid for this?
What? No! IPCC scientists are volunteers.
Volunteers!
Well thank you.
Thanks to all of you IPCC scientists.
With all that feedback the authors could write the final report.
But a big, fat, densely written scientific report didn’t meet the need.
The whole point of the IPCC was to deliver scientific information that governments could use to govern better; to avoid the climate crisis. — 20 of 31

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