The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will publish the first part of a long-awaited report on climate change on Monday.
Invited Sunday on Europe 1, climatologist Jean Jouzel, asked to "give credibility" to this report.
According to him, the first reports of the IPCC had anticipated the current situation.
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Record heat in Canada, deadly floods in Germany and Belgium, fires in California, Turkey, or even Greece ... Natural disasters have been linked in recent weeks around the planet.
It is in this context that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will publish a long-awaited report on climate change on Monday.
This first part will expose the most recent scientific elements on the subject.
A second section on the consequences of this climate change and on the means to fight will follow.
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"What we are experiencing today was anticipated in the first IPCC reports"
Invited Sunday on Europe 1, the climatologist Jean Jouzel, former vice-president of the scientific group of the IPCC and member of the Academy of Sciences, asked to "give credibility" to this report. Because according to him "it is quite remarkable that what we are experiencing today had been anticipated in the first reports of the IPCC". "Global warming is before our eyes now. We see it very clearly, through the extreme events that we experience almost every day. France was spared a little this summer, but this is not the case in Canada, California, and all around the Mediterranean. "
Jean Jouzel cited another example of a phenomenon that had been anticipated by experts.
It is called the "acceleration of sea level rise".
"We were around 1 to 2 millimeters per year in the 20th century. Over the past ten years, we are rather between 3 and 4 mm per year. This acceleration that we are experiencing was foreseen in the first reports of the IPCC", a- he explained.
And the "extreme events" of the moment, as well as the "heat records broken year after year", were also, according to the scientist.
"Global warming will continue"
"This is the main lesson of this succession of IPCC reports. To my regret obviously, they show that the reality corresponds to what we had anticipated", added Jean Jouzel. "There is no doubt: if we continue to emit greenhouse gases, we can reaffirm it, global warming will continue, continue and we will not be able to limit it. And it will be accompanied by 'increasingly violent and increasingly important extreme events,' he concluded.