Heat records follow one another in a way that has become dramatically common with the hottest month of July on the planet this summer, confirming by so the runaway warming. Increase in number of disruptions is visible to the eyes of a reader familiar with the news, whether this summer is the heat wave that hit western North America, the floods that occurred in several countries of Europe or current disturbances in the monsoon regime in Asia. Such phenomena’s cut down the harvest of nationals of the zone to nothing, while that of North American farmers was wiped out by the heat wave, thereby boosting the grain market to the benefit of European farmers. In short, the difficulties of agricultural lands to feed the people multiply as the disturbance increases, while the forests of the entire world are burning.

However, the IPCC keep on minimizing the threat since it doesn’t hesitate to conclude in its latest report that an increase in the average global temperature of only 1.5°C is still possible, even if this threshold would be reached much sooner than expected. The reassuring litany of global warming still hides the threat of disruption. Cool. Faced with the magnitude of the threat, this position taken by the IPCC looks like irresponsibility to me, knowing that the action of politicians is for the time being far from being up to the challenge. Perhaps because they are facing other challenges, like the peoples, and especially the immediate concerns linked to Covid. While urgent action is required because on one hand of the accelerated deterioration of the climate situation and on other hand, the long time needed to implement solutions. I think that one of the reasons for the blindness of the scientific community is due to the fact that unaware of the links between disruption and agriculture, it has not yet taken the measure of the seriousness of the consequences of one on the other.

How long do we still have to wait before the IPCC changes its analysis grid for climate change?

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