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The oracle was expressed in the form of an enigma. It fell to a wise man to decipher it and make the encrypted message apparent. If history is the art of looking at the enigmas of the past and grasping their nature as much as the reasons that made them indecipherable to their contemporaries, then looking to the future with the foreknowledge of what might happen is its corollary. If the poet oscillates between memory and intuition, between heritage and foresight of future catastrophes, how can the rigor of the historian and the scientific demands of the climatologist illuminate the writing of the poem ?
Director of research emeritus at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Jean Jouzel has devoted most of his scientific career to reconstructing past climates. From 2002 to 2015, he was Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Working Group of the IPCC (co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). In 2002, he was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, and in 2012, the Vetlesen Prize, considered the " Nobel Prize for Earth and Universe Sciences ". He is a member of both the French and American Academies of Sciences.
