Certainty then met the duty of objectivity

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The carbon footprint, we are not facing a crisis, but rather a transformation of society. If we do nothing, "we will roast." Dan Christian Paduret, Unsplash Dan Christian Paduret, Unsplash The year 2019, before the global pandemic, was the year of all records in terms of climate. The media finally asked themselves the question of how to deal with the climate in the face of uncertainty - which had become certainty - with the hottest summer ever measured and Iceland's commemoration of one of the largest glaciers in Europe now gone from its territory.


Even of Anglo-Saxon impartiality. 2019 was also the year overseas chinese in usa data that saw Greta Thunberg named the most influential person on the planet by Time Magazine. But 2022 has already surpassed 2019 as the hottest year, even if we are cold at the moment. And this is another problem of vocabulary: the confusion between weather and climate, which disrupts the cause and effect link. The difficult literacy of editorial staff and audiences How can we explain climate change if not with photos of melting glaciers and ice balls? Faced with the complexity of the climate issue, the media sometimes tend to simplify it to the point of caricature.


Climate scientists and journalists have neither the same temporality nor the same vocabulary. On the scientific side, climate research is not new. In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist and famous suffragette (to name one of the many women made invisible by men), observed that " an atmosphere of this gas (...) would give our Earth a high temperature" , and the first major scientific studies on global warming date back more than forty years. Time Magazine cover, April 2006 Cover of Time Magazine, April 2006 Today, when numbers move out of the abstract and climate reality becomes tangible, climate ceases to be a scientific issue.