In the final episode of series 2, Tom and Michael discuss some of the text of the 2022 reports on climate from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. We discuss abstract written style, the apparent absence of people in describing many processes in the reports, and the potential effect of this on presenting human agency in the causes of, and solutions for, climate change.

AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

Communicating Sustainability Conference, Glasgow, September 2022

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