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" For Jean-Marc Jancovici, the creator of the carbon footprint, we homeowner database are not facing a crisis, but rather a transformation of society. If we do nothing, "we will roast." Dan Christian Paduret, Unsplash Dan Christian Paduret, Unsplash The year 2019, before the global pandemic, was the year of all records in terms of climate. The media finally asked themselves the question of how to deal with the climate in the face of uncertainty - which had become certainty - with the hottest summer ever measured and Iceland's commemoration of one of the largest glaciers in Europe now gone from its territory.


Certainty then met the duty of objectivity, even of Anglo-Saxon impartiality. 2019 was also the year that saw Greta Thunberg named the most influential person on the planet by Time Magazine. But 2022 has already surpassed 2019 as the hottest year, even if we are cold at the moment. And this is another problem of vocabulary: the confusion between weather and climate, which disrupts the cause and effect link. The difficult literacy of editorial staff and audiences How can we explain climate change if not with photos of melting glaciers and ice balls? Faced with the complexity of the climate issue, the media sometimes tend to simplify it to the point of caricature.