Climate Change
Climate change is a lasting and concurrent alteration of the climates of the different regions of the globe. Present changes, mainly due to human activities, can have major effects: rising sea levels, more extreme meteorological events (droughts, floods, cyclones, etc.), with potentially devastating impacts: on forests, freshwater resources, agriculture, biodiversity, health, etc. Action must be taken to mitigate the causes of these rapid changes and to adapt to their inescapable effects.
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November 2025
How wind and solar power are reshaping mathematics with a magic wand: a report on the biased communication of intermittent "renewable" energy companies and lobbyists.
When communication takes precedence over technology, or when the intermittent renewable stereotypes are used as a cloak of virtue and an advertising pitch
In May 2022, Madame Agnès Pannier-Runacher was appointed Minister for Energy Transition in Madame Borne's government. For the first time in many years, energy and its long-term challenges were under the responsibility of a full-fledged Ministry, with no direct reporting to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Economy.
The IPCC has determined that carbon neutrality will have to be reached in the second half of the 21st century if the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement are to be met. A variety of countries, cities, companies... have announced that they are going to achieve carbon neutrality, some of them well before the critical date. But are their "carbon neutrality" and that of the IPCC the same thing? Nothing is less certain.
The European Energy Policy: an Absolute Failure for the Climate
Faced with the massive reduction of Russian gas deliveries, Europe finds itself in a situation of energy insecurity as of now: gas storage facilities must be filled at all costs before November 1. This is a legal obligation, whose purpose is to ensure that winter peak demand can be coped with. In France, these storage facilities represent a little over a fourth of the annual consumption so that even if they are filled, imports will have to continue at a significant rate during next winter and beyond.
The reaction of several European countries has just been released: they are turning to... coal, and are about to reopen electricity production capacities using this fuel, which is by far the biggest CO2 emitter and the most polluting of all. Such is the case in Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and soon in other countries; Italy too is in a very precarious situation and will have to increase its electricity production from coal and fuel oil. As for France, the likelihood is that its last two coal-fired power plants are not about to shutdown.
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Jean POITOU
November 2025
Climate scientists widely agree with the claim that climate warming is under way... ...
During the COP21, the signatory countries asked the GIEC to study the possibility of limiting the increase of the Earth surface temperature to 1.5 rather than 2 degrees Celsius, with respect to the pre-industrial period, circa 1850.
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