Slide 3 in this series.
Basic timeline with the 5 AR reports done with greater and greater confidence at each turn.
The push for having Kyoto be accepted came with campaign moves as well: movie and awards.
In each AR the SPM, exec summary for policy makers precedes the technical findings by at least 3 maybe as many as 6 or more months.
The Nobel prize was won in 2007 along with the movie by Al Gore, even during the damming pause in temperature.
NEXT: The evolution of the IPCC comes next.
The breakdown of the IPCC, its motives and methods are found in these pages.