Science at UM [S05-ep11]: What if the Earth Tipped Over?
This week on "Science at UM," Vasilis Dakos, a 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 Bar des Sciences, which will take place on March 19. A program broadcast every Wednesday on Divergence.
What if the Earth tips over? That is the question that opens the 23rd issue of Lum magazine, dedicated to global warming. For it is clear that ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, the goal of keeping the global average temperature well below +2 degrees seems increasingly out of reach. And the consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. Whether it’s the Amazon rainforest, glaciers, the oceans and their coral reefs or seagrass beds—which we’ll discuss—or wetlands, entire ecosystems are suffering, and plants and animals are seeing their living conditions transformed.
And humans are no exception. The surge in arboviruses and the diseases they spread, inequalities in the face of respiratory problems, vulnerability during heat waves, and the destabilization of socioeconomic systems. To address all these issues, ecologists, virologists, epidemiologists, economists, and researchers in management and education share their insights in this new issue of Lum.
And today we are welcoming one of them, Vasilis Dakos, an ecologist atISEM. Along with 160 other scientists, he contributed to the global report ontipping points related to climate change. He also co-authored an article in Environmental Research Letters titled “Principles to Guide Future Research on Resilience and Tipping Points ” and another in the journal Frontiers titled “Carbon Storage in Seagrass Ecosystems Could Reach Tipping Points in Response to Anthropogenic Pressures—A Modeling Perspective.”
In the second half of the program, we continue our tour of the botanical garden with its director, John De Vos.
Finally, our guest for the last three minutes is Marianne Dupré-Gabireau, who will be introducing the upcoming Science Bar on March 19 at the Dôme. As part of Brain Awareness Week, this Science Bar will focus on deafness and neurocognitive disorders.
At UM Science, you’ve got the program—let’s get started!
Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Report: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Director: Bruno Bertrand
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