“Climate denial is most often based on false beliefs”

Physicist-climatologist at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), François-Marie Bréon has just given his first course at the Collège de France as part of the annual “Sustainable Common Future” chair of which he is the guest for the 2024-2025 season. Spokesperson and former president of the French Association for Scientific Information, he chose to title his course “Climate change: how do we know what we know?” “.

LE FIGARO. – Many people come to see you after your conferences to share their doubts about the reality of global warming. What do you answer them? ?

FRANÇOIS-MARIE BRÉON.- Climate denial is most often based on false beliefs. Many people, and not just climate skeptics, believe, for example, that climatologists have identified CO₂ as a driver of warming based solely on the temporal coincidence between the increase…