Jean Jouzel

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Depuis le début de la guerre avec les Etats-Unis et à Israël, les autorités iraniennes ont coupé l’accès à Internet, menaçant de poursuites toute personne qui contournerait les restrictions.

The Gulf Stream is part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a tipping element and may collapse under changing forcing. However, the role of the Gulf Stream in such a tipping event is unknown. Here, we investigate the link between the AMOC and Gulf Stream using a high-resolution (0. 1°) stand-alone ocean simulation, in which the AMOC collapses under a slowly-increasing freshwater forcing. AMOC weakening gradually shifts the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras northward, followed by an abrupt northward displacement of 219 km within 2 years. This rapid shift occurs a few decades before the simulated AMOC collapse. Satellite altimetry shows a significant (1993–2024, p < 0.05) northward Gulf Stream trend near Cape Hatteras, which is also confirmed in subsurface temperature observations (1965–2024, p < 0.01). These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping.

Climate regime shifts (CRSs), characterized by abrupt and persistent transitions between alternative stable states in the climate system, pose serious threats to ecosystems and human well-being. Understanding the potential drivers of CRSs is crucial, particularly in a warming world where CRSs are becoming more frequent.

En 2023, l’administration Biden avait choisi Calibri comme police de caractères standard, dans un souci d’accessibilité et d’inclusivité pour les personnes malvoyantes et dyslexiques.

We report striking discoveries of numerous seafloor seeps of climate-reactive fluid and gases in the coastal Ross Sea, indicating this process may be a common phenomenon in the region. We establish the recent emergence of many of these seep features, based on their discovery in areas routinely surveyed for decades with no previous seep presence. Additionally, we highlight impacts to the local benthic ecosystem correlated to seep presence and discuss potential broader implications. With these discoveries, our understanding of Antarctic seafloor seeps shifts from them being rare phenomenon to seemingly widespread, and an important question is raised about the driver of seep emergence in the region. While the origin and underlying mechanisms of these emerging seep systems remains unknown, similar processes in the paleo-record and the Arctic have been attributed to climate-driven cryospheric change. Such a mechanism may be widespread around the Antarctic Continent, with concerning positive feedbacks that are curr

Une découverte scientifique majeure vient de rapprocher l’humanité d’une révolution technologique sans précédent. Des chercheurs chinois ont franchi un cap décisif dans la construction du futur Internet quantique, cette technologie mystérieuse qui promet de transformer radicalement nos communications numériques.

Un rapport analysant des images publiques de décorations du 16ᵉ centre du FSB, la branche du renseignement intérieur russe responsable de l’espionnage des communications, révèle de précieuses informations sur son organisation.

Le Japon a franchi un pas colossal vers l’avenir des télécommunications en atteignant une vitesse de transmission de données de 1,02 pétabit par seconde, suffisante pour télécharger l’intégralité du catalogue Netflix en moins d’une seconde. Ce résultat n’est pas qu’un chiffre impressionnant : il redéfinit les limites de ce que nous pensions possible en matière de connectivité.

La déconnexion quasi totale de l’Iran s’explique par une stratégie suivie depuis plusieurs années par les autorités iraniennes, qui contrôlent de près l’unique point de passage des données entrant et sortant d’Iran.