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pg5

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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pg6

Four embedded panels in the students' lesson show climate induced disasters of the past - crops withering, wildlife suffering, cars flooded Dialogue: It was mostly that, but other things too, that caused big problems. These changes in the air made our planet get hotter. Plants and animals suffered; lots went extinct. Sea levels rose; people’s homes were flooded. And people started to go hungry. And it looked like it was just going to keep getting worse...
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Shows teacher describing Geneva in Nov 1988; logos for the founding bodies of the IPCC: WMO and UN Environment Programme. Also dais of first IPCC meeting. Dialogue: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was founded way back in 1988. Made up of the international community of scientists and governments, it studied the planet’s changing climate. This was backed up by almost all the governments in the world signing an international convention.* 197 of them signed. That’s more countries than there were members of the United Nations!† * The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC † 193
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