Note: Cover -- THE WHITE PLANET -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE THE WORLD OF ICE: PAST AND PRESENT -- Chapter 1 The Ice on Our Planet -- Snow and Ice: A Multifaceted World -- Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps -- Polar Regions: The Omnipresence of the White Planet -- Greenland, Antarctica, and Ice Shelves -- Ice: An Agent and Indicator of Climate Change -- The White Planet and Sea Levels -- Chapter 2 From Exploration to Scientific Observation -- The Flow of Mountain Glaciers -- Mass Balance: The Health of a Glacier -- The Arctic Ocean in the Time of the Explorers -- The Arctic Ocean: Vulnerable Ice -- Greenland: An Island Inhabited for Millennia -- Greenland: An Increasingly Negative Mass Balance -- Antarctica: A Much More Recent Exploration -- Antarctica: A Long Uncertain Mass Balance -- Chapter 3 Ice through the Ages -- The Time of the Pioneers -- Ice of Long Ago -- Glaciations of the Quaternary and Astronomic Theory -- PART TWO POLAR ICE: AMAZING ARCHIVES -- Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Climates of the Past -- The Round of Isotopes -- Going Back in Time -- The Recent Period -- The Distant Past -- Paleoceanography -- Continental Archives -- Dating Oceanic and Continental Archives -- A Cornucopia of Results -- Chapter 5 Glacial Archives -- The Long Story of a Snowflake -- The Ice and Its Isotopes: A Paleothermometer -- Impurities with Multiple Sources -- Air Bubbles in the Ice: A Very Beautiful Story -- The Headaches of Dating -- Chapter 6 The Campaigns -- Camps Century and Byrd: The First Deep Ice Core Drillings -- Fifty Years Ago: The French on the Polar Ice -- The First Drilling at Dôme C: Success of the French Team -- Rapid Climate Variations: Initial Inklings -- Vostok: A Collaboration between French and Soviet Teams -- Europe and the United States: Two Drilling Operations in the Center of Greenland. , Europe Turns to Antarctica -- Vostok: More than 3,600 Meters of Ice -- Other Core Drilling in Antarctica -- The Glaciers of the Andes and the Himalaya -- A Return to Greenland -- The European EPICA Drilling: A Double Success beyond All Hopes -- Chapter 7 Vostok: The Cornucopia -- A Complete Glacial-Interglacial Cycle -- Climate and Greenhouse Effect Go Hand in Hand -- Much More Information -- A Huge Lake under the Ice -- Chapter 8 Dôme C: 800,000 Years and the Revolution of the Rhythm of Glaciations -- Ice Older than That at Vostok -- Inversion of the Magnetic Field -- Chapter 9 Rapid Climatic Variations -- The First Indications -- Increasingly Clear Indications -- A Connection with Ocean Circulation? -- Confirmation -- Rapid Events during a Warm Period? -- Initially Underestimated Changes in Temperature -- The Connection with the Ocean Henceforth Demonstrated -- Consequences on a Planetary Scale -- Chapter 10 The Last 10,000 Years: An Almost Stable Climate -- Volcanism and Solar Activity: Natural Climatic Forcings -- How Long Has Human Activity Been Changing the Composition of the Atmosphere? -- PART THREE THE WHITE PLANET TOMORROW -- Chapter 11 TheClimate and Greenhouse Gases -- The Greenhouse Effect: A Truly Beneficial Natural Phenomenon -- The Greenhouse Effect Due to Human Activity: A Slow Awareness -- How Did We Get to This Point? -- Chapter 12 Have Humans Already Changed the Climate? -- The Time of the Pioneers -- The Awareness -- The Establishment of the IPCC -- The Problem of Aerosols -- The Climate in the Last Millennium -- Warming Is a Certainty -- The Arguments of Skeptics -- The White Planet on the Front Lines of Global Warming -- Chapter 13 What Will the Climate Be in the Future? -- A True Upheaval if We Aren't Careful -- What Will Become of Our Glaciers? -- An Arctic Ocean without Ice? -- Surprises under the Frozen Ground. , A More Rapid and Higher Sea-Level Rise than Predicted -- The Halt of the Gulf Stream -- Chapter 14 A Warming with Multiple Consequences -- A True Upheaval on a Global Scale -- Mountain Regions -- Polar Regions: Multiple and Diverse Impacts -- The Political and Economic Stakes: Climate and Oil -- Chapter 15 What We Must Do -- Stabilizing the Greenhouse Effect: A True Challenge -- The Kyoto Protocol: A First Step -- The Bali Conference -- Can the Challenge Be Met? -- Copenhagen: Failure or Half-Success -- A Necessary Adaptation -- The "Grenelle de l'environnement" -- PART FOUR THE POLES AND THE PLANET -- Chapter 16 The Crucial Place of Research -- A Short History of the Polar Years -- The International Polar Year 2007-2009 -- Glacial Ice Coring: Ambitious Objectives -- The Microbiology of Ice and Subglacial Lakes: Life in an Extreme Environment -- Concordia: A Station Full of Promise -- Chapter 17 Humans and the Rise of Pollution -- The Story of Lead -- Other Heavy Metals, Including Copper -- Sulfates -- Radioactivity -- The Ozone Hole: An Emblematic Pollution -- The Anthropocene and Greenhouse Gases -- CONCLUSION: THE ANTHROPOCENE ERA -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Note: Front Cover -- A Climate Pact For Europe: How to Finance the Green Deal -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- Acknowledgments: The English Translation -- How We Can Win the Battle -- 2020: A Warning Shot -- Foreword -- One 'Our Home Is Burning and We Are Looking Elsewhere' -- In Africa, harvests may be halved as the population doubles -- It is world peace that is at stake -- Two Global Warming: The Essential Cause Is Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- This time, the meteorite is us! -- Three 'Soon It Will Be Too Late…', Say 15,000 Scientists -- Our emissions continue to increase -- Four The UN Environment Programme Denounces 'This Catastrophic Climate Gap' between the Reductions Needed and the National Pledges -- Five Zero Net Carbon Emissions? Yes, It Is Possible -- Sufficiency and efficiency -- Repairing, recycling and reusing -- Housing, transport and agriculture: a full review of our model -- Investing massively in renewables -- Investing in research -- After Airbus and Ariane, the car of the future? -- Six Can We Make a Colossal Development Programme Work? We Can Do It! -- Victory Program versus America First -- 'We choose to go to the Moon' -- A budget multiplied by 15, and nearly 400,000 people mobilized -- Seven '€1,000 Billion for the Climate?' If It Is Really Needed, Yes, We Can Do It! -- €1,115 billion a year, according to the European Court of Auditors -- In 2014, the European Central Bank turned the table upside down -- €2,500 billion created in two and a half years -- New money for investment: 11 per cent of the sums created by the ECB -- Unprecedented alert on debts -- Global debt (private and public) has increased by US150 billion in 15 years and has reached 318 per cent of world GDP -- A brutal financial crisis -- 'The worst is before us' -- Homo sapiens sapiens or debilus debilus?. , Eight Putting Finance Back at the Service of the Common Good: The European Climate Finance Pact -- Two per cent of GDP each year for 30 years -- Create a European bank dedicated to climate -- In 1989, six months were enough for Kohl and Mitterrand -- Finally, a European climate budget -- Stopping European fiscal dumping -- A climate contribution? A 5 per cent tax on profits that are not reinvested -- In France, -8 per cent + 5 per cent = -3 per cent -- Split the bill in half -- Make improvements in energy efficiency mandatory -- Nine Save the Climate and Save Europe? It Is Now or Never! -- A meeting of minds, the like of which has never been seen before -- Summit of 13 and 14 December 2018 -- Is this transformation possible? -- A transformative treaty, adopted by a pan-European referendum? -- Conclusion: Creating a New Development Model -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.