“There is nothing alarming, the climate has varied all the time and human beings have always managed to adapt. It’s just the Earth’s cycle, after all! “. That’s it, Marie-Pierre, your climate skeptic aunt – “no matter what, I’m a climate realist” she likes to point out – has struck again. Between cheese and dessert, here she is again in this eternal debate, which you thought was over for several years, on the anthropogenic origins of climate change, its reality and France’s responsibility for its worsening.
Each time, the trap closes on you: unable to keep calm, you launch into big explanations where science and politics intertwine. Until the moment when you see the shy, but ostensibly evil smile of your aunt, very happy to see you getting bogged down in your explanations which she likes to describe as “militant”. “But nonsense, it’s science,” you cry out despite everything.
Climatosceptic and climatorealist, same fight
For several months, climate skepticism has made a comeback on the media scene and is saturating social networks. This is evidenced by the recent forced departure of climatologist, Christophe Cassous, from All in a context of ecological planning long promised by the Borne government, which finally delivered its roadmap this Monday.
So, in this context and to respond to the most “reverent” of anti-climates, “20 Minutes” chose to call on one of the masters in the field: the science journalist Sylvestre Huet, author of the blog Sciences² on the site of Worldas well as several works including the latest entitled The IPCC climate emergency, the incontestable report explained to all.
His tips for responding effectively to the assertions most used by climate skeptics can be found in the video at the top of this article.