Jean Jouzel

Scenarios serve as a critical tool in climate change analysis, enabling the exploration of future evolution of the climate system, climate impacts, and the human system (including mitigation and adaptation actions). This paper describes the scenario framework for ScenarioMIP as part of CMIP7. The design process has involved various rounds of interaction with the research community and user groups at large. The proposal covers a set of scenarios exploring high levels of climate change (to explore high-end climate risks), medium levels of climate change (anchored to current policy), and low levels of climate change (aligned with current international agreements). These scenarios follow very different trajectories in terms of emissions, with some likely to experience peaks and subsequent declines in greenhouse gas concentrations in this century. An important innovation is that most scenarios are intended to be run, if possible, in emission-driven mode, providing a better representation of the Earth system uncert

Les concentrations de dioxyde de carbone ont connu la plus forte hausse depuis 1957, ont averti ce mercredi 15 octobre les Nations unies.

Les concentrations de dioxyde de carbone ont connu leur plus forte hausse depuis 1957, a averti mercredi l’organisation météorologique des Nations unies. En cause, la hausse persistante des émissions d’origine humaine et la multiplication des feux de forêt.

Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms. However, directly assessing this in humans is very difficult. We analysed serum bicarbonate (HCO3−), calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) levels from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2020 as indirect proxies for atmospheric CO2 exposure. Over this period, average bicarbonate levels in this population show an increasing trend which parallels rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Both Ca and Phave decreased steadily over the same period. If these trends continue, blood bicarbonate values could be at the limit of the accepted healthy range in half a century, and Ca and P will be at the limit of their healthy ranges by the end of this century. Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide

In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report.

L’agence météorologique et climatique de l’Organisation des Nations unies a également constaté que le CO₂ s’accumulait plus rapidement que jamais dans l’atmosphère, avec une hausse de plus de 10 % en deux décennies.

Dans un rapport publié ce lundi, l’ONU alerte sur de nouvelle augmentations qui entraîneront immanquablement des hausses de température ces prochaines années. Nous éloignant encore de l’objectif de limiter le réchauffement à +2°C.

Pour la première fois, l’acide trifluoroacétique (TFA), le plus petit des 'polluants éternels', a été analysé sur...

Un dérivé des PFAS a été détecté en concentration importante dans de l'eau potable en Wallonie.

D’importantes quantités de microplastiques ont été détectées dans les testicules de tous les sujets testés dans le cadre d'une récente étude. Ces particules seraient impliquées dans la baisse de la qualité des spermatozoïdes et de la fonction testiculaire globale.