Planète blanche: Les glaces, le climat et l'environnement

by Jean Jouzel, RAYNAUD CLAUDE, Lorius Dominique

Depuis les premières explorations du XXe siècle, la glaciologie est devenue une science à part entière, une science cruciale même, puisque c'est elle qui permet de suivre l'histoire du climat sur des milliers d'années. Les auteurs de ce livre sont même à l'origine d'une première : ce sont eux qui, en 1987, ont démontré que les variations de la température sont liées à la teneur de l'atmosphère en gaz à effet de serre. Alors que s'ouvre l'Année polaire internationale, ce livre est d'abord un passionnant voyage à travers ce qu'on peut appeler la " Planète blanche ", du Groenland à l'Antarctique, en passant par les glaciers des pays tempérés. Il retrace les expéditions et les expériences qui ont permis de mieux comprendre le monde des glaces. C'est surtout une pièce essentielle dans le débat autour du changement climatique. Quel climat demain ? Voici ce que nous disent les glaces.

Genres: Science, Nature, Nonfiction

288 pages, Broché

First published May 22, 2008

Reviews

[Bilal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great content. But the writing was quite straightforward. Still a great read and scary for what's to come the next century.

[Yeah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'll be writing two reviews. One is for this website (goodreads.com) and one is for the book. The book is average. It's not very enjoyable to read even though it could be. It's quite dry and doesn't supply much in the way of reasoning. Just overloading of evidence and statistics, but not even so much of the latter. Funny drawings show up here and there. It feels as if somebody wrote notes in the form of a book. There's a slight bit of extra attention given to the French but having learnt UK-biased geography it was not too much to bear.

The website is rather terrible. It fulfills its implicitly stated aim, but fails in usability. The UI is clunky. The GUI came from 2005. You cannot multi-edit books on shelves. Books with ratings are not auto-marked as read, nor is there a setting to turn it on. Fundamentals exist, like a timeline and shelves but all the navigation is convoluted. Adding a book on the app vis-a-vis the website is frustratingly inconsistent. Whether stuff like date you finished the book is automatically filled is contingent on the platform you used. This site should take a page or two from tumblr. (I'm not a tumblr fan just that technically speaking, tumblr is an example of a site that does not have such issues)

[Lance · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not exactly a bad book but too obviously written for a French audience. Also, very technical. Not sure what I wanted but I wasn't looking for this much detail.