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Note: This article is from Conservation Magazine, the precursor to Anthropocene Magazine. The full 14-year Conservation Magazine archive is now available here.
Brevity is the soul of wit. In that spirit, NOAA oceanographer Greg Johnson distilled the 2,000-plus pages of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report into 19 watercolor-illustrated haiku poems of 17 syllables each. The complete series can be viewed at daily.sightline.org/2013/12/16/the-entire-ipcc-report-in-19-illustrated-haiku.
©Greg Johnson
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