What the IPCC report says… and what some want it to say!

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The sixth expert report, the result of an enormous amount of scientific synthesis work, sets out a roadmap… which some are tempted to read upside down.

Par Geraldine Woessner

A burning area of ​​the Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso, Para state, on August 16, 2020.
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Published on 03/21/2023 at 5:16 p.m.

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C’has become a ritual, honed to perfection. As soon as the “summary for decision-makers” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) appeared on Monday March 20, compiling, in a thirty-seven-page summary document, eight years of scientific research, activists and politicians around the world rushed to television sets, trying to use this sum to justify their agendas.

The Giec – to hear them – confirms them all! Decreasing – the IPCC highlights “sobriety” – as productivists – the scenarios all fit into a context of economic growth –, optimistic – the solutions exist – as millennials – “humanity is organizing its suicide”, will say Yannick Jadot –, technophobes as technophiles…

And, while the…