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White Planet / Plan te blanche: Les glaces, le climat et l'environnement

White Planet / Plan te blanche: Les glaces, le climat et l'environnement

Jouzel, Jean
Claude, Raynaud
Dominique, Lorius

Paperback

General Science

ISBN10: 2738114008
ISBN13: 9782738114006
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: May 22 2008
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.63 Depth: 10.25
Language: French
Since Claude Lorius's first expeditions to Ad lie Coast in the 1950s, glaciology has become a fully recognised, vitally important science because it has enabled us to follow climate history over thousands of years. The authors of this book are precursors in the field: in 1987, they demonstrated that temperature variations are linked to the quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The International Polar Year occurs amid ample evidence of the existence and rapidity of climate change in the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age and during recent times.Above all, this book is a fascinating journey through what could be called the White Planet, from Greenland to Antarctica and across glaciers in the temperate zones. It follows the numerous expeditions and experiments that have added to our understanding of the world of ice and snow. The book is an essential contribution to the ongoing debate on climate change. What will the climate of the future be like? The answer is to be found now in the ice.This is a fascinating book by three eminent scientists, recognised internationally for their pioneering work in glaciology and climate change. The International Polar Year has put the study of ice and snow at the centre of investigations into climatology. As a result, several scientific and political actions have already been undertaken. Glaciology is certain to play a crucial role in future studies on climate change. Jean Jouzel is one of the French members on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the director of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace and a senior research fellow at the French Atomic Energy Commission. In 2002, he received a Gold Medal from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).Claude Lorius is an emeritus senior research fellow at the CNRS's Laboratory on Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment, which he founded in Grenoble. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and was a recipient, in 2002, of a CNRS Gold Medal. He is the author of Les Glaces de l'Antarctique (1991) and L'Antarctique (1997).Dominique Raynaud is a senior research fellow at Grenoble's Laboratory on Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment and one of the French members on IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. / ?Depuis les premi res explorations du XXe si cle, la glaciologie est devenue une science part enti re, une science cruciale m me, puisque c'est elle qui permet de suivre l'histoire du climat sur des milliers d'ann es. Les auteurs de ce livre sont m me l'origine d'une premi re: ce sont eux qui, en 1987, ont d montr que les variations de la temp rature taient li es la teneur de l'atmosph re en gaz effet de serre. Alors que s'ouvre l'Ann e polaire internationale, ce livre est d'abord un passionnant voyage travers ce que l'on peut appeler la Plan te blanche, du Groenland l'Antarctique, en passant par les glaciers des pays temp r s. Il retrace les exp ditions et les exp riences qui ont permis de mieux comprendre le monde des glaces. C'est surtout une pi ce essentielle dans le d bat autour du changement climatique. Quel climat demain ? Voici ce que nous disent les glaces.M daille d'or 2002 du CNRS, Jean Jouzel est directeur de l'Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace, directeur de recherche au CEA et l'un des membres fran ais du GIEC, qui a re u le prix Nobel de la paix 2007.M daille d'or 2002 du CNRS, membre de l'Acad mie des sciences, Claude Lorius est directeur de recherche m rite du CNRS au Laboratoire de glaciologie et de g ophysique de l'environnement, qu'il a cr Grenoble. Il a notamment publi Les Glaces de l'Antarctique.Dominique Raynaud est directeur de recherche au Laboratoire de glaciologie et de g ophysique de l'environnement de Grenoble et l'un des membres fran ais du GIEC, qui a re u le prix Nobel de la paix 2007.

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