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The Ecrins Snow Dome (4,015 meters), a summit in the French Alps very popular with amateur mountaineers due to its low level of difficulty. (Illustration) REUTERS / Emmanuel Foudrot

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Question asked by

Le Parisien

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Well we can doubt it ... In a few decades, around 2100, the white peaks of the Pyrenees and the eternal snows of the Alps will perhaps be nothing more than a memory ...

According to a Météo France report published on Tuesday, temperatures could increase on average by nearly 4 degrees at the end of the century and by nearly 2 degrees, if we act against global warming.

The warming process is now inevitable ...

Still according to this report, specifies

Le Parisien

, “ 

the warming will be - and is already even - more marked in mountain areas, therefore, particularly in the Alps and Pyrenees.

In addition to the overall rise in mercury, heights are subject to the albedo effect.

That is to say the reflective power of a surface which explains why a black T-shirt keeps warmer than a white outfit.

Ditto for the mountain soil, dark (with rocks and vegetation), which will heat up all the more quickly if it is devoid of snow, white.

 "

20 to 35 heatwave days per year!

And the phenomenon of warming would of course not only hit mountainous areas… Indeed, specifies

Le Monde

, “ 

when the temperature rises, it means more frequent and more intense extreme events.

 "Example:" 

the number of days of heat waves - that is to say a temperature anomaly greater than 5 degrees for at least five consecutive days in summer - would be increasing (…).

In the most pessimistic scenario, this would amount to an average of 20 to 35 heatwave days per year at the end of the century, compared with 3 to 4 days over the 1976-2005 reference period.

Heatwaves could even last more than a month or two in summer in the hottest regions today, notably the Mediterranean arc, the Rhône valley and the Garonne valley.

"This would bring us closer, in terms of temperatures, to the conditions of North Africa",

warns climatologist Robert Vautard

 ", quoted by

Le Monde

.

Emergency!

“ 

'This report clearly shows France's vulnerability to climate change,

says climatologist Jean Jouzel.

It has slightly higher temperatures than previous

projections, as well as a more marked drop in precipitation over the south of the country.

New data showing the urgency for France to keep its climate commitments

, he continues

- it must go three times faster in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

As such, it is unfortunate,

concludes Jean Jouzel,

that all the proposals of the citizens 'convention for the climate have not been implemented'.

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Navalny's courage

Also on the front page, the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny ...

Navalny: Putin not even afraid

 " exclaims

Liberation

on the front page.

“ 

The anti-corruption blogger who has become the number 1 enemy of the Kremlin appears in court this Tuesday.

 "The authorities want to muzzle him at all costs ...

Liberation

does not hide his admiration for the man and his courage: “ 

we cannot help watching him brave the security forces, returning to his country after an assassination attempt knowing that he would be thrown in prison, or even threatened with death again, to ask ourselves this eternal question: would we do the same if we had suffered what he suffered and if our existence was suspended at the whim of Putin?

This is where the strength, perhaps even the power, of Navalny lies,

Liberation

point

.

He no longer asks himself any questions, he goes for it, whatever the cost.

Its fate does not count against that of Russia, where we continue to die of cold and hunger while a minority feasts on gilding and furs.

 "

Burma: the return of persimmon

Finally, “Burma, return to dictatorship”: this is the main title of La Croix.

“Feeling humiliated by the overwhelming victory of Aung San Suu Kyi's party in the legislative elections last November, the Burmese army carried out a coup yesterday under the pretext of maintaining + the country's unity.

"

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Take off the masks!

Sighs

Le Figaro

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From now on, the script is clear, drawn with a saber: a brutal reset of the country by the junta before the organization of a 'Potemkin poll', thanks to a new electoral commission in its hand.

It remains to be seen whether this muscular scenario will dare to elude the Racinian actress of this Burmese tragedy: the stubborn heiress of General Aung, hero of independence from the British, shunned in the West, but who still makes hearts beat in Yangon and plays once again the role of his life.

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