The IPCC is an international panel that offers gold-standard assessments of the state of the planet and the likely trajectory for climate change. According to the IPCC’s website, the IPCC was created in order “to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation options.” Unfortunately, the IPCC’s very real warnings—including a landmark “Doomsday” report—often go unheeded by the very governments they serve.
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The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Term Timeline in The Uninhabitable Earth
The timeline below shows where the term The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appears in The Uninhabitable Earth. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part I, Cascades
...respond to our unending emissions. Groups like the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which offers the “gold-standard assessments” on climate change trajectories, do this complex work of drawing...
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...that current climate models are conservative: the globe could reach temperatures double than what the IPCC currently projects, even if humanity hits the emissions-reductions targets laid out in the Paris accord.
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Part III, The Climate Kaleidoscope, Chapter 1: Storytelling
...motivate change. For decades, as scientists presented data, no one listened: in 2018, with the IPCC report about the effects of two degrees of warming, scientists at last leaned toward fear....
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