Conference: “Global warming: talking about it to take action”

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  • Dates: March 15, 2019
  • Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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By Christine Leredde, Geosciences Montpellier.
Triolet Campus, SC 23.01, Building 23 – Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier.

Lecture by Geosciences Montpellier and theGaïa Doctoral School.

Christine Lerrede's research focuses on cyclostratigraphy, particularly the study of paleoclimatic cycles and their implications from the Mesozoic to the Quaternary periods. However, this lecture will mainly focus on her teaching activities, which cover knowledge of the current climate, its mechanisms, and its evolution.

On the occasion of the global day of action for climate change, we propose that it lay the scientific foundations for global warming. Its presentation will be primarily scientific and educational.

She will therefore provide an update on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the advances made in the latest forecasting models, and the various greenhouse gas emission scenarios, which will enable her to present the model outputs with the so-called optimistic and pessimistic forecasts.

In order to then open the debate on the political and social aspects, she will present the latest results that served as the basis for COP 24, as well as the attitudes of the various participating or withdrawing countries.

Christine Leredde is a senior lecturer at the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory and the Montpellier Faculty of Sciences, in the Earth, Water, and Environment Department. Christine obtained an engineering degree from Centrale Marseille, specializing in Marine Engineering, along with a DEA (postgraduate diploma) in Marine Environmental Sciences, with a focus on physical oceanography, from the University of Luminy, Marseille. She then completed her thesis between Cerege and Luminy. After a year of post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Geophysics and Hydrodynamics in Drilling in Marseille, she joined the Faculty of Sciences of Montpellier as a senior lecturer specializing in Diagraphs. She is currently Head of the Earth Sciences degree program, specializing in Geosciences, Pollution Prevention and Treatment.