Supertroupers – Climate Comics – The Grandiloquents

Have you heard of the Supertroupers? It’s a comic series created by the Association Stimuli, the Office for Climate Education, and other organizations as part of the European project ECOSCOMICS, offers an innovative and accessible way to address climate issues in the classroom. Through a blend of immersive storytelling, practical experiments, and scientific pedagogy, it helps enhance students’ critical thinking and understanding of various scientific topics.
Why read this comic with your students?
Debunk climate misconceptions: Despite a strong scientific consensus, a significant portion of the population still doubts the human origins of global warming. This episode helps students grasp the physical foundations of the phenomenon and provides them with the tools to respond to common falsehoods with well-founded arguments.
Explore simple, classroom-replicable experiments: Through the depiction of practical activities, students learn how greenhouse gases like CO₂ interact with infrared radiation and the connection between these interactions and rising global temperatures.
Rely on a rigorous pedagogical approach: Developed in collaboration with researchers in science education, this episode is based on studies identifying key challenges students face when understanding the Earth’s radiative balance and the greenhouse effect.
Enjoy using it with your students or at home. It is sure to generate a lot of discussion.
In this episode of the comic series The Grandiloquents, the characters find themselves at the heart of a climate protest. Their opinions diverge: one character raises the possibility of a natural origin for climate change. To address this complex question, they turn to a physicist at the protest, who invites them to her laboratory to conduct scientific experiments.
These experiments, which they later present in a street performance, help illustrate key concepts such as:
  • Infrared radiation
  • The influence of CO₂ on this radiation
  • The Earth’s radiative balance
By offering a clear and educational representation of these phenomena, this episode engages students in scientific exploration while debunking common misconceptions about the causes of climate change.