Science at UM [S05-ep11]: What if the Earth tilts?
This week in Science at UM, Vasilis Dakos, researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier, talks to us about climate tipping points. The report takes us to the Jardin des Plantes with its director John De Vos. Finally, Marianne Dupré-Gabireau announces the next Science Bar, which will take place on March 19. A program broadcast every Wednesday on Divergence.
What if the Earth tips over? This is the question that opens the 23rd issue of Lum magazine, dedicated to global warming. Ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, it is clear that the goal of keeping the global average temperature well below +2 degrees seems increasingly unattainable. And the consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. Whether it's the Amazon rainforest, glaciers, oceans and their coral reefs or seagrass beds, which we will discuss, or wetlands, entire ecosystems are suffering, and plants and animals are seeing their living conditions transformed.
And humans are no exception. Explosions of arboviruses and the diseases they spread, inequalities in the face of respiratory problems, vulnerability during heat waves, destabilization of socio-economic systems. To address all these issues, ecologists, virologists, epidemiologists, economists, management science researchers, and education researchers speak out in this new issue of Lum.
And today we are welcoming one of them, Vasilis Dakos, an ecologist atISEM. He collaborated with 160 other scientists on the global report ontipping points related to climate change. He also co-published an article in Environmental Research Letters entitled Principles for guiding future research on resilience and tipping points, and another in the journal Frontiers entitled Carbon storage in seagrass ecosystems may reach tipping points in response to anthropogenic pressures—a modeling perspective.
In the second part of the program, we continue our stroll through the botanical garden with its director, John De Vos.
Finally, our guest for the last three minutes is Marianne Dupré-Gabireau, who will be presenting the next science bar on March 19 at Le Dôme. As part of Brain Awareness Week, this science bar will focus on deafness and neurocognitive disorders.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Reporting: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Production: Bruno Bertrand
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