head in the sand
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Climatologist and IPCC member Christophe Cassou recalls that the next five-year term will be decisive in minimizing the effects of climate change. He regrets that the political debates are not up to the challenge.
Tired of sounding the alarm in a vacuum, the scientific community no longer hesitates to challenge politicians directly. On Tuesday February 1, 1,400 French scientists asked, via an unprecedented platform, to put climate and biodiversity issues at the heart of the debates of the presidential campaign.
Among the signatories, Christophe Cassou, member of the UN group of experts on climate (IPCC). Its mission: to summarize scientific knowledge to help policymakers make appropriate decisions. In August, he was the main author of the first part of the sixth IPCC report, dealing with the current and future climate. Like in comedy Don’t Look Up, this climatologist at Cerfacs in Toulouse has rubbed shoulders with a political sphere that is not always receptive to the climate emergency. He told it on…