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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 — 5 of 31

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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! — 6 of 31

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Seventh online page shows the teacher describing how growing sophistication at the IPCC made each subsequent report more comprehensive but also the time between publications grew.
Dialogue:
IPCC scientists then needed to prove that the changing climate wasn’t natural, that it was because of human activity
As they wrote their second, third, and fourth assessment reports etc. the IPCC included more and more experts from different disciplines. Instead of taking two years, reports were taking four years, six years, eight years to prepare.
That’s because the more the IPCC studied climate change, the more they realized it could affect the economy, our health, farming and more.
Indigenous experts with traditional knowledge needed to be included.
More and more, the social sciences required consideration.
Scientists and experts from so many disciplines needed to be included. — 7 of 31

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