For LSD, Aline Pénitot turns the microphone over to palaeoclimatologists, including Julie Aleman, Clara Bolton, Guillaume Leduc and Lucien Montaggioni at CEREGE. They make ice, rocks, marine sediments, coals... speak for themselves, revealing the extent to which past climates tell us about the extent of current disruptions.
Listen to the podcast diffused as part of the LSD documentary serieson France Culture, from 2 to 5 October at 5pm. Available on demand on the usual listening platforms.
In an article published on 2 October 2023 (Le Monde, "Dans les vestiges des anciens climats", on France Culture: Aline Pénitot gives voice to glaciers, oceans and forests),presents the documentary series In the beginning was a sound. The sound of a glacier calving off the continent. And to say it's impressive is an understatement. As is the work of Aline Pénitot. With her sensitive intelligence and genuine respect for the listener - whom she knows how to take on board with her, even over the most arduous seas and mountains - the author of the series Les Pacotilleuses and Oublier Moby Dick, among others, has succeeded this time in making 'scientific' rhyme with 'poetic'. To really give voice to what is happening here, now, in our climates....
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