“Our research on ice cores clearly confirms that the climate change we experience today is linked with our human activities”

After receiving the 16th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, Jean Jouzel reviews his contributions to paleoclimatology through the analysis of ice cores. His research has made it possible to reconstruct the evolution of the climate over hundreds of thousands of years, demonstrating the direct link between human emissions and global warming. Jouzel emphasizes the importance of grounding political decisions in scientific evidence.

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”.