“We are in time to prevent the worst scenarios of climate change but we have to start reacting now and decrease the use of fossil fuels”

Recognized with the 16th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen explains how the study of polar ice makes it possible to reconstruct Earth’s climate and anticipate future changes. In the interview, she details the unique information preserved in ice cores and reflects on the decisive role of science in understanding the accelerating pace of global warming.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this sixteenth edition to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jakob Schwander and Thomas F. Stocker “for contributions to the polar ice core records that establish a fundamental coupling between greenhouse gases and air temperature characterizing climate change over the past 800,000 years”.