Category: Environment
An absolutely brilliant idea has resurfaced in recent weeks. First evoked by Christophe Cassou in 2019, several scientists suggested during the June 2022 heatwave to name the climate hazards by the names of the sources ...
So that they are not lost in the meanders of social media, you can now find all the IPCC infographics in this article! They are very good complements to the articles and have many advantages: ...
On 18th January 2022, a catastrophic news just fell. Scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) confirmed that we have crossed a 5th planetary boundary : the “chemical pollution” boundary or “introduction of novel entities ...
Text by Magali Reghezza, Geographer and Member of the French High Council for Climate (HCC) According to a report by the World Resources Institute (WRI), in 2020, one-fourth of the global population (about 1.7 billion ...
Ongoing climate change, which is very pronounced in the Arctic regions, is driving permafrost to thaw. What is the problem? As temperatures rise, these soils frozen for thousands of years release significant amounts of greenhouse ...
This is what Valérie-Masson Delmotte declared at the press conference for the release of the new IPCC Group 1 report on August 9, 2021: “We would like for the entire report to contribute to improving ...
It’s basic math: planes emit between 30 and 50 times more CO2 than trains (if you didn’t know that or if you still had a doubt, read this article). However, this calculation does not take ...
Thousands of you simulated your carbon footprint and almost as many panicked when comparing the target (less than 2 tons CO2eq/year) and the share of the utility’s carbon footprint. These famous 1.3t which are displayed ...
We hear about climate change (almost) every day, but who has ever heard of radiative forcing? It is a notion that is not widely publicized, rarely explained, and this is a pity: it is absolutely ...
This week, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a historic turning point for countries towards a sustainable world. In any case, this is what we can read since Monday morning in several ...
How can you estimate your carbon footprint, or climate footprint ? How can you know if your lifestyle is compatible with a sustainable world ? If you are asking yourself this question, you made a ...
A month ago, I published an article following up on the excellent Cambridge University paper, highlighting the 12 excuses for climate inaction. The numerous feedbacks not only helped to improve the answers to the excuses, ...
“You’re turning a blind eye to the IPCC, it’s alarming. You have too much trust in science“. If you thought that climate skeptics were no longer a thing in 2020, you would be wrong. Although ...
Is flying an ecological nonsense? As a prologue, I’d like to quote what physicist-climatologist and author of the fifth IPCC report François-Marie Bréon said in a hearing at the National Assembly in July 2019: “I ...
Rejoice ! We have (almost) convinced the climate-skeptics. Apart from a few bad apples, no one denies the effects of human activites on climate change. On the other hand, now comes the most difficult part: ...
It was while doing my daily two minutes in hell Twitter that I came across a message from Le réveilleur that bounced off a Greenpeace tweet, whose message was quite provocative: ‘Total’s carbon footprint is ...
In the category of denial number 346, I would like the little brother of the singer please : the professional sportsman. There are millions of us who admire Federer, Messi and Ronaldo. Millions of people ...
For at least 30 years, scientists have been warning about the serious consequences of our excessive consumption. Climate change acceleration due to human activity is no longer a debate. However, we are in an unusual ...
It is true that sometimes we think that the mountain is too high. When Dennis Meadows tells you that it’s too late for sustainable development, and that we need to prepare for resilience, you might ...
After tackling greenwashing and carbon neutrality, it’s high time to tackle the 3rd student of the triptych ‘I don’t need to change anything! Thus, I present you ‘energy efficiency‘. More subtle, more cunning than the ...
2019 has truly been a pivotal year in my life. Everything was almost fine, until I found myself on vacation for the entire month of August. Perfect to relax! …Almost. I spent 15 hours/day reading ...
