The debate on climate change must answer two crucial questions:
What relative importance should it be given in comparison with other global problems?
What options should be favoured to deal with it?
What relative importance should it be given in comparison with other global problems?
What options should be favoured to deal with it?
Ten international personalities from various tendencies and disciplines were invited to respond to twelve statements, six of which concern scientific facts and the confidence that should be placed in them, six others concern the actions to be implemented in the future. To encourage these experts to take a position, they must respond with a simple statement, “totally agree”, “agree”, “disagree”, “totally disagree”, the rest of the interview prompting them to develop their argument. The compilation of their responses on a graph gives an overview of the opinion profiles of the experts: “sceptical” or “concerned” by climate change, in favour of a future favouring “free development” or “regulated development”.
The scenographic device gives priority to the debate: the sequences projected on the walls of the room present each question and the successive answers of the ten experts. Three interactive screens also invite visitors to give their opinion on the same twelve subjects and to appear on the same opinion graph as the experts.
The experts:
Marcel Deneux, senator, member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices,
Dominique Dron, president of the Interministerial Mission on the Greenhouse Effect (MIES),
Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre of Climate Change Research (a new research centre tasked with finding solutions to climate change), United Kingdom,
Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States,
Bjørn Lomborg, lecturer in statistics at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, a book that relaunched the debate on the environment,
Gylvan Meira, former co-chair of the scientific working group and then vice-chair of the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Cédric Philibert, administrator in the energy and environment division of the International Energy Agency in Paris, Berol Robinson, doctor of physics and member of the AEPN (Association environmentalists for nuclear power),
Beatrice Schell, director of the European Federation of Transport and the Environment (a meeting of non-governmental organisations active in Europe in the field of the environment),
Bert de Vries, researcher at the RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, lecturer at the University of Utrecht on the theme of “global change and energy”.
The scenographic device gives priority to the debate: the sequences projected on the walls of the room present each question and the successive answers of the ten experts. Three interactive screens also invite visitors to give their opinion on the same twelve subjects and to appear on the same opinion graph as the experts.
The experts:
Marcel Deneux, senator, member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices,
Dominique Dron, president of the Interministerial Mission on the Greenhouse Effect (MIES),
Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre of Climate Change Research (a new research centre tasked with finding solutions to climate change), United Kingdom,
Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States,
Bjørn Lomborg, lecturer in statistics at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, a book that relaunched the debate on the environment,
Gylvan Meira, former co-chair of the scientific working group and then vice-chair of the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Cédric Philibert, administrator in the energy and environment division of the International Energy Agency in Paris, Berol Robinson, doctor of physics and member of the AEPN (Association environmentalists for nuclear power),
Beatrice Schell, director of the European Federation of Transport and the Environment (a meeting of non-governmental organisations active in Europe in the field of the environment),
Bert de Vries, researcher at the RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, lecturer at the University of Utrecht on the theme of “global change and energy”.