Thread by @johnlangab

#OnThisDay a year ago the @IPCC_CH released its report on #climatescience. Governments endorsed then largely ignored.

How do we get IPCC summaries across to apes with smartphones, especially those roaming corridors of power for whom they're intended? 🧵

eciu.net/analysis/infog…

With much difficulty. But visuals help. They not only steal attention, they have the ability to go directly into long-term memory where they're indelibly etched.

@KateRaworth @waitbutwhy @jamespeshaw

Hence why I made a belated #explainer of the first #IPCCAR6 report, the first of three I'll publish before #COP27.

Better late than never, esp. when the next IPCC compendium won't drop until ~2030, the year when interim carbon-cutting pledges should be being met.

Very simply, the action formula hasn't changed. We need to:

1) Halve emissions by about 2030
2) Get to #netzero CO2 by mid-century
3) Slash non-CO2 emissions.

Neither has the @KA_Nicholas-@KHayhoe comms formula:

1) It’s real
2) It’s us
3) It’s bad
4) We can fix it.

1) It's real.

2) It's us.

Or, better yet: carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-s… @CarbonBrief @daisydunnesci

3) It's bad.

And not just that which is *irreversible* over millennia.

theconversation.com/how-likely-wou… @harrinluke @FrediOtto @wxrisk

(It's going to be hard to fix.)

4) But, we can fix it.

That is, if we move quickly.

Thanks to those who helped with this, most prominently @_richardblack 👊, and the many other time-generous experts who I drew on for advice @stv_smth @theresphysics, even if they didn't necessarily know it @hausfath, @DrKateMarvel, @MichaelMann, @JoeriRogelj, @anna_pirani

@_richardblack @stv_smth @theresphysics @hausfath @DrKateMarvel @MichaelMann @JoeriRogelj @anna_pirani @MichaelEMann, I see @MichaelMann has a new film: HEAT2. Collaboration opportunity? He must be well versed given how often I and others tag him, right?

I went with your minefield ^ at the expense of @DrKateMarvel's 'slope we slide down'. Have you battled that one out yet? 🤷

Morning @BMHayward, @CubaRaglanGuy, @ClimateFramo, @harrinluke, @RKPriestley
, @ChiefSciAdvisor, @LauraClarkeUK, @benabrahamnz, @smcnz, @AmdBeattie
— could we inject any of these explainers into the corridors of education back home in Aotearoa? Or of power, @HelenClarkNZ?