PRESENTS: THE ADVENTURE AND SCIENCE BEHIND GLOBAL WARMING READ AND SHARE the adventure and Science behind global warming Script byAlessandro Meiguins and Caco Galhardo Translation by Jennifer Sarah Cooper Coordinated by Matthew Shirts and Chiaki Karen Tada Direction and original idea by Caco de Paula São Paulo, 2014 mars, 2072. Dados Internacionais de Catalogação na Publicação (CIP) G155c Galhardo, Caco Climate Heroes - The adventure and science behind global warming / Caco Galhardo; roteiro, Alessandro Meiguins; tradução, Jennifer Sarah Cooper. – São Paulo: Planeta sustentável; Ed.Abril, 2014 52 p. : il. color.; 30 cm ISBN 978-85-7971-714-7 1. Mudanças climáticas. 2. Histórias em quadrinhos. 3. Meio ambiente. Brasil. I. Meiguins, Alessandro. II. Cooper, Jennifer Sarah. III. Título. CDD 363.738 tharsis. volcanic Plains come in! gramps? how’re you holdin’ up? cup o’ Joe? Your coffee’s the worst, gramps. Just pipe down and drink it! how’s school? boring... i prefer your stories… about earth ah, earth... earthlings, did i ever tell you the one about your aunt chloe’s enormous booty? only about a hundred million times... You were in the middle of telling me about global warming. ah, global warming... where were we? in the previous century, in the 1960s, scientists became alarmed about climate changes on earth. to understand the future of the climate, they had to understand the past. So, they went to the polar ice caps a comic book by caco galhardo based on research done by planeta sustentável. You were telling me about vostok. these guys arrived in greenland, one afternoon, and set up a scientific research station… Script by alessandro meiguins and caco galhardo. colored by o silva. ah, vostok. coordinated by matthew Shirts and chiaki Karen tada. translated by jenny cooper. direction and original idea by caco de Paula. camp century, greenland robert gerdel b.lyle hansen and started drilling in the ice. these guys drilled more than 2km below the surface to take a block of ice that represented more than 110,000 years of climate records. that’s where vostok comes in! they extracted shafts of ice holding the history of the earth’s temperature throughout the past 400,000 years. i don’t get it, why so much ice? that’s right, boy. look, son! vostok, the remotest scientific station in the antarctic. 3 km deep in the ice, they found microbubbles that held air from the past. inside each bubble, the composition of the air registered a specific concentration of carbon (co2). bubbles of atmospheric air and it confirmed all of the greenland data. radioactive substances ash these guys faced temperatures of - 71 oc degrees. way below freezing. ice is a natural climate recorder. the PartY waS JuSt getting Started! Pollen the data indicated that the earth was heating up and carbon dioxide had reached record breaking levels of concentration. this concentration is measured in parts per million or PPm. they needed to check the data on the opposite pole of the planet. research of this kind spread around the world. So everything started in the ‘60s? great! that’s because you never saw the Stones play that show in ’75! no, before that! grab some more coffee and listen up... in the 1820s, the French Physicist tried to discover what determined the temperature of our planet. during four years he investigated the possible origins of the earth’s heat. he found out that the atmosphere somehow traps the heat that the Sun sends this way. For this, Fourier is known as the first to talk about the greenhouse effect. this british Physicist was the man! he discovered how heat is trapped on earth – according to the laws of physics, heat should be reflected back into space and the planet would then be very cold. tyndall resolved the questions Fourier posed, and deduced that co2 absorbs the Sun’s heat, keeping it from returning back to outer space. John tindall Physicist great britain 1820/1893 Joseph Fourier - Physicist France - 1768/1830 the PrecurSorS climate heroes guy Stewart callendar engineer the Swedish chemist, arrhenius, was the first to realize something was wrong. the planet was getting hotter. but why? arrhenius stated that, “as we evaporate our coal mines in the air”, we will be increasing the earth’s temperature from 5 to 6 degrees celsius by the year 2200. he got the heat calculations right, but the date wrong. if nothing changes, by 2100 the earth will actually be even hotter than that. Svante arrhenius Physicist Sweden 1859/1927 nobel Prize for chemistry (1903) callendar’s favorite hobby was creating statistical. curves of the temperature of the globe. doing this, he noted that the temperatures were rising everywhere and presented his results before the royal meteorological society in 1938, in london. it was the first warning that the concentration of co2 increased temperatures. this became known as the “callendar effect”. canada 1898/1964 hold on, grampa! the research was encouraged by roger revelle – one of the greatest oceanographers in the uSa. Yeah, well 3 gallons of coffee will get anyone going! that’s a lot of info, my brain’s gonna burst! hang on. gramps!! You’re gonna o.d. on caffeine! now that i’m just starting to rev up? this is the best part. Keeling “bottled” air samples from california and arizona. have i told you about Keeling? charles david Keeling Keeling dedicated most of his life to measuring levels of co2 in the air, on earth and in the sea. masters but pollution got in the way. So he went to hawaii. climatologist ... plus the waves were perfect. uSa who? he’s definitely the man! usa, 1928/2005 with this daily measuring done year after year, Keeling registered, for the first time in history the earth’s respiration – breathing – exhaling in the winter and spring when the co2 rates are high. and inhaling in summer and autumn when the levels are lower. he shot off experimental manometers. what the??? atmospheric calibrators stuck to balloons. hawaii where the air was purer, in mauna loa, on the big island. he measured atmospheric co2 levels, relating them to temperatures on earth. Spring Summer autumn winter Slow down on the coffee, grampa! the polar ice cap crew had already shown that the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere had oscilated historically between 200 and 280 PPm*. Keeling’s study showed that these levels had been surpassed all over the world. with increased levels of co2 in the atmosphere, more solar heat became ‘trapped’ on earth. because of Keeling’s discovery, the american agency noaa began monitoring co2 levels in over 100 sites around the world. it had everything to do with the greenhouse effect. Keeling, with the help of noaa, developed the most famous image of the age of climate change! hold your horses! * parts per million the concentration of co2, which, in the history of the planet had never surpassed 280 ppm, suddenly rose to 400 ppm by 2014. co2 concentration in the early 21st century, scientists concluded that the consequences for humanity would be severe if the co2 level rose above 450 ppm. the heat would be too much. artistic representation year Pour me some more coffee! gramps, hold off on the coffee already! then give me a Power bar gel blast! You don’t need an energy boost, gramps. then bring me that bottle of tequilla! no, gramps! ... okay, then let me tell you all about hansen! James hansen is a scientist, former director of naSa, the u.s. space agency. hansen was the first spokesman on the question of global warming. his testimony had enormous impact on the american government and society. - he had access to the best satellite images on the Planet. and he started to get worried about what he saw. on June 23, 1988, one of the hottest days in the history of washington dc, he spoke to the american Senate. James hansen Scientist usa 1941/... the greenhouse effect is heating up the earth! iPcc? is it a political party? all this led to the creation of the iPcc. go jump in a lake! come to think of it, i could use a jump in a lake. wait right there... i’m gonna jump in the bath. hold on, gramps. tell me about the iPcc first. You never give me a break, do you! the first president of the iPcc called up 170 scientists to analyze the question in depth. how are you doing, stud. i want to make you an invitation! bert bolin, climatologist Sweden, 1925/2007 okay, in 1988 the iPcc was created – the intergovernmental Panel on climate change, linked to the united nations. From 1990 to 2014 5 reports were done. each one with an increasing number of scientists. a group that gathers the cream of the crop of world scientists to study the problem of global warming. cool, grampa! Sure. thanks! can i take a bath now? back in a flash! humanity reacted. tell me more about the iPcc. Pass me the shampoo and i’ll tell you. hot cold the last report, in 2014, was signed by 235 people from 58 countries “climate march” nova York september, 21st, 2014 then what? hand me a towel. 800 scientists took turns monitoring studies from all ove the world. they confirmed that global warming, caused by man, had already provoked climate change and irreversible consequences to the environment. then what what? don’t i smell good? let’s take a spin. get out a bit. i can’t stand this cubicle for one more minute. a spin? where we going? let’s see if we can find a nudist beach with some martians! grampa, with everything you told me earth would have been saved. therein lies the rub. let’s go back a little in history. all this stuff about the iPcc was pointed out in important meetings. eco92 the first coP – conference of Parts of the united nations on climate change. rio de Janeiro, 1992 the event began focused 100% on environmental questions... that’s when we come to the hairy part of the business. as hard as asking you to stop playing vídeo games! they said that the scientists were exaggerating. i know it isn’t easy to stop co2 emissions. berlim, 1995 the scientists were like that doctor that says... Starting today you need to get plenty of exercise and no alcohol or fried foods. and ended up focused 100% on the future of the climate. nobody wanted to hear about it. mainly the giant lobby of sceptics financed by the coal and oil industries. and the skeptics... don’t sweat it! a couple of supersized, double bacon, cheese-burgers can’t harm you. Kyoto, 1997 then what? that’s when the debate really heated up. a lot of countries came to an agreement: all over the world co2 emissions should be reduced by 5,12% by 2012. al gore, american vice-President, played an important role in the negotiations. the american congress wanted nothing to do with it. this thwarted political agreements. although the united nations was able to an upper limit of 2 oc at the coP in copenhagen in 2009. that was the goal. nobody wanted to hear what the scientists were saying. that’s it, my boy. an inconvenient truth. the first time images of the melting of the ice caps impressed the public at large. and so, we return to al gore. Sit there, squirt. again? Former uS vice President and presidential candidate al gore had long been concerned about the future of the climate. he had taken a course with the oceanographer roger revelle in college. the scientists had a hard time commmunicating with the public. the situation called for an experienced politician to step in. al gore uSa, 1948/... al gore and the iPcc - during the tenure of rajendra Kumar Pachauri (1940/...) – won the nobel Peace Prize, on behalf of the entire scientific community. upset by the battle lost in congress over the Kyoto treaty, he decided to attack on another front... the entertainment industry. but the skeptics got revenge. over al gore? Yes. and over the paleoclimatoligists. his documentary, “an inconvenient truth”, won an oscar in 2007. Paleowhat? michael mann discovered a way to map the historical temperatures on the planet in the rings of ancient trees, pollen in ice and sediment at the bottom of lakes. in 2009 his email was hacked, documents were forged, and he was presented to the public as a fraud. he compiled all the temperatures of the last millennium in one graph that became known as the hockey Stick. it was only in 2012 that mann was allowed to testify in the american congress. michael e. mann uSa climatologist 1965/... (*artistic representation) temperature oscillation michael mann’s graph confirmed all of the climatologists theories: the definitive proof of everything they were saying. the temperature of the planet had risen 0.5 oc over the previous 50 years. 1.0 0.5 0.0 besides proving his innocence, he proved his theory and the validity of the hockey Stick graph. -0.5 -1.0 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300 1350 1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 it was a big scandal and became known as climategate. year but the skeptics wouldn’t accept it and they aimed all of their fire power at mann. what a trip, gramps! he was mocked for years, in comic strips, vídeos and texts. oh, my joints... help me get up. let’s go home. but let’s go home by bus. let’s go, gramps! let me just contemplate one more minute on all of the immensity. let’s. did you say take land transportation? that’s right, the bus. oh, how i miss it! the immensity of earth’s natural beauty? of aunt chloe’s blooty! so what happened in the end, grandpa? i thought you’d never ask! record high temperatures. melting ice caps and a rise in the sea level. michael mann’s case set off a chain reaction of attacks on the iPcc. but the ipcc finally won out. the 2013/2014 report aside from proving that humanity was responsible for global warming. they made accurate predictions about the years that would follow. typhoons, floods and droughts. continuous species extinction. in spite of all of this, the climatologists continued being pictured as the pains-in-theasses of the story. but like all good pains, they continued insisting. the un invited leonardo di caprio to talk at the climate Summit in new York. the issue was championed in the media and political campaigns. Supporters filled the streets in the States, europe and cities everywhere. and ended up winning powerful friends. harrison Ford thomas Friedman, journalist of the new York times arnold Schwarzenegger everyone in the series “Years of living dangerously”, focused on climate change. where? grammy winner of 2014. in brazil, for example. they had a first class scientific team... and many others! maria assunção Silva dias - graduate of applied math marcos buckeridge – uSP Jean ometto – inpe laerte guimaraes Ferreira Júnior – geologist antônio rocha magalhães – economist eduardo delgado assad – agricultural engineer ilana wainer – revision of the chapter on oceans – uSP luiz gylvan meira Filho – Former director of the brazilian agency on Space gilvan Sampaio de oliveira – meteorologist, researcher from inpe tercio ambrizzi – climatologist – inpe antonio nobre – climatologist – inpe emilio la rovere – economist and engineer Paulo nobre - climatologist – inpe moacyr araújo - civil engineer tasso azevedo, - forestry engineer thelma Krug – inpe maria Silvia muylaert de araújo – uFrJ ronaldo Serôa da motta – ipea roberto Schaeffer - electrical engineer oswaldo lucon – uFrJ mercedes bustamante – Pbmc Suzana Kahn ribeiro – uFrJ marcos gomes – Puc-rJ márcio d’agosto – uFrJ luiz Pinguelli rosa – uFrJ haroldo de oliveira machado Filho - mct ulisses confalonieri - Fiocruz Fabio Scarano - international conservation carolina dubeux - uFrJ carlos nobre - climatologist - member of iPcc Paulo artaxo - Professor at the Physics institute of the uSP José marengo - Professor and researcher at inpe iracema cavalcanti - inpe edmo campos - uSP chou Sin chan - inpe in 2014, a group of researchers tried to warn that things were going to get ugly in brazil. in the amazon, scientists from instituto brasileiro de Pesquisas da amazônia (inPa) and from instituto Planck, coordinated by Physicist Paulo artaxo, built an observation tower designed to measure co2 impact on the jungle. and that’s what happened. drought ridden northeast just became to grow. they were worried about the future of the largest forest on the planet. if the amazon were sensitive to the rise in co2, what would happen? could it dry up? researchers like hilton Silveira Pinto, from unicamp, said that brazilian coffee would not handle temperatures in the South and the Southeast of brazil, and it would migrate to argentina. others said that the worst was still to come... they said that after 2050, not even manioc would survive. their roots would become thin, soft, and limp. e r o F e b r e Ft a researcher marcos buckeridge had warned about this. 325 meters the end of manioc fries. i grabbed your gramma and your mom, and we came to mars. For me, hearing these stories was also the mercy shot of my existence on earth. it was over. Station space Platform! grampa, let’s get off. wait a minute! this isn’t our station! are you nuts, what’s gotten into you? okay. but lets pack and tell your mom. look at this... there will soon be more people on mars than on earth! where are you going? grampa, buy me a ticket to earth. why? wait a second, al. it’s not an easy question. let’s buy the tickets first! grampa, if there isn’t anyone to fight for that Planet, nothing will be left. it can still be saved! are you sure about this? 100%! r e t la earth is more beautiful than i imagined. it just needs a few more... ... climate heroes. “Send chloe a kiss!” *iF not For the climate ScientiStS, the earth might not have been habitable when our hero decided to return. he became, together with them, a climate hero! Biographical Profiles Get it? Or do you want me to draw it for you? I n the beginning, I didn’t quite get it. So I asked them to draw it for me. It worked. And works to this day. In Brazil we say, “Get it? Or do you want me to draw you a picture?” It’s a hostile way of putting someone down. As far as I’m concerned, though, this phrase – an apparent instance of bullying – can also represent sympathy and compassion for the other. I, for one, love it when people ‘draw it out’ for me. My generation has been nourished by images that help us understand the world. Comic books, magazines, sticker collections, film, photography, Carnaval, cartoons, TV series… Then came video games and the vertiginous social networks, with graphic posts, videos and memes. All very visual. That’s why comic books – and film – are indispensable. Nobody said it would be easy to understand, much less explain, what’s happening with Earth’s climate. Extreme phenomenon occurrs with greater frequency: record temperatures, droughts, typhoons, floods, scathing heat waves... Some of the signs of change are even more severe than scientists predicted. At PLANETA SUSTENTÁVEL – a multiplatform that uses infographics to combat the misinformation – images are our greatest allies. Each year we produce volumes of information that we publish in magazines, on sites, tablets, billboards and posters, applications, at events and in classrooms. The greatest distribution of information on climate change is displayed in the images of Al Gore’s famous slide show, presented the world over. It teaches that the problem is happening now, requires immediate action and can be confronted. Its solutions can lead us to new models of economy and to a new and more responsible use of natural resources. This first issue of CLIMATE HEROES – the adventures and science behind climate change, is a dream come true, thanks to the joined forces of a team of comic strip creator heroes. Mainly, Caco Galhardo, Matthew Shirts, Karen Tada and Alessandro Meiguins, who gave their all to create this comic book. The issue is aligned to the essential idea of our work at PLANETA SUSTENTÁVEL, inspired by British Professor, Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity without Growth, and released in translation by PLANETA. This idea, which I like to call the, “Jackson Three”, proposes actions that look to the future, but promote change in the present. CLIMATE HEROES has all of the “Jackson Three” attributes: lucrative, lasting and can be shared. Read it and pass it on! CACO DE PAULA Director of PLANETA SUSTENTÁVEL cartoonist and writer caco galhardo has a daily comic strip in the Folha de S. Paulo, six books published, as well as many published collaborations. Some of his characters have become animated cartoons on the cartoon network channel, and in 2014, his character lili a eX was adapted for a sitcom on the gnt channel. his comic strip adaptation of don Quijote volume 2, was a Jabuti Prize finalist in 2014. matthew Shirts is the editorial coordinator of Planeta sustentável and a columnist for the magazine veja São Paulo. he ran national geographic brasil for 13 years. he is the author of o Jeitinho americano (realejo, 2010). caco de Paula is a journalist and the director of planeta sustentável. he has run tourism publications for editora abril and national geographic brasil. he has also worked for the o estado de S. Paulo, Jornal da tarde and veja. he has idealized and created dozens of new publications, and runs a very active production nucleus of sustainable content. chiaki Karen tada is a journalist with a master's degree in Social anthropology. She has written for travel publications and is an editor at Planeta Sustentável. alessandro meiguins is a journalist, designer, and director of atol estúdio. he is a specialist in creating and executing pilot projects in communication, such as this comic book. he works for national geographic brasil, Planeta sustentável, araquém alcântara, geodinâmica, grupo companhia, among others. Bibliographic References DOCUMENTARY GORE, AL, An Inconvenient Truth, written by Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim, 2006 BOOKS MANN, MICHAEL E., The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - Dispatches from the front lines, Columbia University Press, 2012 McKIBBEN, BILL, edited by, The Global Warming Reader - A Century about Climate Change, Penguin Books, 2012 ORESKES, NAOMI and CONWAY, ERIK M., The Collapse of Western Civilization - a view from the future, Columbia University Press, 2014 TENNESEN, MICHAEL, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming, Alpha, 2008 WEART, R. 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