Claude (Jean) Allègre is a French politician and scientist.
Allègre thinks that the causes of climate change are unknown.
In an article entitled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in l’Express, a French weekly periodic, Allègre cited evidence that Antarctica’s gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro’s retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, can come from natural causes. “The cause of this climate change is unknown”, he states as matter of fact. For him, there is no basis for saying, as many do, that the “science is settled.”
Allègre has accused proponents of anthropogenic, catastrophic global warming of being motivated by money, commenting that “the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!”
20 years ago in “Clés pour la géologie”, he wrote “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”.
In 2010, more than 500 French researchers asked Science Minister Valérie Pécresse to dismiss Allègre’s book L’imposture climatique, claiming the book is “full of factual mistakes, distortions of data, and plain lies”. One researcher, Hakan Grudd, called the changes that Allegre made in hand-redrawing a graph of his misleading and unethical. Allegre described the petition as “useless and stupid”.
