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The famous climatologist returns to the harmful role of the former Minister of National Education, who died on January 4, in the fight against global warming. In his eyes, the geochemist remains the leading figure of climate skepticism in France.
An elegant man cannot rejoice at the death of his old enemy. When asked if he agrees to evoke the memory of the geochemist and former socialist minister of Education Claude Allègre, who died on Saturday January 4, the famous climatologist Jean Jouzel first expresses “a certain sadness”. However, the one who received the CNRS gold medal does not forgive Allègre, another renowned recipient, for having put, from 1995, “his aura of a great scholar” and his political influence in the service of scientific untruth in his chronicles of Point, then l’Express, or in his books. “His legacy will remain mammoth and climate skepticism,” despairs the former co-president of group 1 of the IPCC, the UN climate experts. A legacy, which, Jouzel observes, remains very much alive in public debate.
How was Claude Allègre's climate skepticism expressed?
He said in substance: “Global warming is very limited, we don’t understand much about it.” Regarding the causes, he maintained the same vagueness. He invoked the natural variability of air conditioning
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