“In life, there is nothing to fear, but everything to understand” (Marie Curie)
The issue of climate concern, an emotional and anxiety-provoking matter, is nothing new!
For these reasons, it requires greater clarity and the expression of arguments that are not based exclusively on linear extrapolations.
Indeed, the IPCC report of March 2023, which predicts a global cataclysm, is considered by the author to be binary, political and overly alarmist.
Its ambitions confront us with an extremely urgent problem in terms of decarbonisation.
France claims to be carbon-virtuous, emitting 1% of global CO2. However, we can see that the actions of nations are not synchronised.
Based on this observation, physicist Daniel HUSSON enters this confrontation determined to separate fact from fiction.
In 13 well-argued and insightful chapters, he presents the importance of returning to reason in order to moderate the fears that have been generated, by looking at things from a different perspective to understand the cyclical changes that explain the structure of movements and causes.
He points out that the planet’s climate system is an oceanic mechanism, which explains both the stability of the atmosphere over a long period and the erratic oscillations in the oceans, i.e. climate variability.
Because: It is the ocean that dictates its law to the air. That’s how it is!
It is established that climates have changed naturally and continuously since the beginning of time. Nature sets the laws, and humans are part of them.
As long as the sun shines, the Earth’s axis remains tilted and the precession of the equinoxes continues, the Pole will remain a cold spot and the Equator a hot spot.
This plea is like a blade ready to burst the bubbles that thrive here and there to make humans feel guilty at the expense of other justifications.
Not giving in to sustained panic, playing things down, resorting to a plurality of viewpoints, putting things into perspective and setting the record straight: that is the stated aim of this informative book.
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Daniel HUSSON is a physicist, teacher, researcher and trainer in physics since 1992.
He teaches thermodynamics and Einstein’s theory of relativity at the University of Strasbourg.
Author and co-author of more than seventy international scientific publications, he has also published Les Quarks, histoire d’une découverte (Quarks: The Story of a Discovery) – (Ellipses).
Book review by Freddi Godet des Marais – Club Turgot 2025