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Views on global warming. Allègre states that the causes of climate change are unknown. This represents a change of mind, since he wrote in 1987 that "By burning fossil fuels, man increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which, for example, has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century". [6]
Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is "unknown" and accused the “prophets of doom of global warming” of being motivated by money, noting that "the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!"
Mar 2, 2007 · Claude Allegre, one of France's leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming.
Mar 5, 1999 · Some teachers' union leaders have even called for Allègre's resignation. In an interview in his Paris office, Allègre outlines his rationale for the changes he wants to see in French research, and underscores his determination to push ahead with the reform program. An edited transcript follows.
Feb 3, 2012 · Indeed, an opinion article by former French politician Claude Allègre and 15 friends, published in the ‘Wall Street Journal’ on 27 January, included among its many erroneous pronouncements “The lack of warming for more than a decade – indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.’s ...
PARIS —More than 400 French climate scientists want science minister Valérie Pécresse to take a clear stand against the country's most vocal climate skeptic, geochemist Claude Allègre of the Institute of Geophysics of Paris (IPGP).
Jun 24, 2009 · Despite months of intense speculation, the controversial geochemist Claude Allègre, a global warming skeptic who was once France's science minister, is not on the new team. Rumor had it that Allègre, 72, might head a new superministry of innovation and international trade.
