”Who might have predicted the wave of inflation or the climate crisis with spectacular effects?” Macron said, implying that no one had anticipated climate change. Internet users did not fail to respond to him sharply on social networks, reminding him that the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has existed since 1990 and has produced six reports since, and that we were also at the 27th COP.
Last night Macron said: “Who might have predicted the climate crisis with spectacular effects once more this summer in France? »
The first IPCC report dates from 1990. And there have been 27 COPs since 1995… pic.twitter.com/BFJbF2G1uE
— Mickaël Correia (@MickaCorreia) January 1, 2023
-Hello Jupiter, Earth here: it’s 22°C at 10 p.m., January 1st, 2023 in ????????, I repeat: 22°C at 10 p.m., January 1st! And it lasts!
– Who might have predicted the new climate crisis at home ?????
-The #IPCC had warned for 30 years. You haven’t received their last reports, the 6th? pic.twitter.com/KINsjk7vtj— Christophe Cassou (@cassouman40) January 1, 2023
It is in the scientific community, which has been warning for several years regarding climate change, that the sentence has not particularly passed.
Gonéri Le Cozannet, geologist who co-signed the latest IPCC report, is amazed. “There have already been six IPCC reports, 27 COPs, alerts in the 1970s and 1980s… We can’t say that we hadn’t foreseen it”. he reacted to Franceinfo. “That no one has picked up this sentence shows that the stakes are not understood”, he adds, as the speech was re-read and recorded in advance.
“Who might have predicted the climate crisis?”
It’s funny, it’s exactly one of my favorite jokes to poke fun at politicians who live outside of reality.
Happy New Year 2023 everyone! pic.twitter.com/JT6QK3KCtn— @Goneri@mamot.fr (@Goneri76) January 1, 2023
Our French colleagues also gathered the reaction of Magali Reghezza-Zitt, geographer and member of the High Council for the Climate (HCC), created in 2018 by Emmanuel Macron. “This is a speech that might have been made in the 1980s, not in 2022”, she wonders.
For her, Emmanuel Macron is the “symbol of this ruling class, economic and political, all sides combined, which has not taken the measure of the problem” and criticizes a fatalistic discourse, which presents the fight once morest global warming lost in advance. “To say in 2022 that we didn’t know is simply ‘fake news’”she points to the information site.
Still with Franceinfo, the climatologist Jean Jouzel, shows his disappointment. However, he remembers very well a meeting in September 2013 at the Elysée Palace, during which the conclusions of the 5th IPCC report were presented to François Hollande and his deputy secretary general, Emmanuel Macron. “It’s been ten years anyway, I don’t understand how he might have said that”he regrets.
