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Because IPCC – A 15 min graphic read

History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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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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Sixth online page of the graphic novel book Because IPCC shows early scientists, then a healthy world. Dialogue: Before the IPCC there was rising concern among scientists about the changing climate. But the United States didn’t want a few scientists getting everyone worried if it turned out global warming wasn’t such a big problem. So the US and other countries encouraged the UN to set up the IPCC to see if more scientists agreed. Today, in 2120, governments, businesses and people have changed how we power our world, so we’ve stabilized the climate. The IPCC is still writing reports more than 130 years later to confirm we’re managing our world properly. When the IPCC started though, it first had to establish that climate change was happening at all. It was a big job. It took two years to write the first report!

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