Emmanuel Macron pledges €1bn to fund research into melting ice caps

This is the best summary I could come up with:

French president Emmanuel Macron told a summit of heads of state and scientists in Paris: “We are not talking about a threat for tomorrow, but one that is already present and accelerating.

The plight of the Earth’s polar regions and glaciers has sparked alarm among many scientists, as heatwaves at both poles, which were seen for the first time last year, look set to be a regular occurrence.

Among them is Sir David King, former UK chief scientist, and now head of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, who is researching ways to refreeze the Arctic ocean.

Macron, seated opposite her, looked grave, as Pearson, who spent 20 years as a US diplomat working on conflict and geopolitical concerns, continued: “I know that climate change is seen as a soft issue [compared with wars and national security]… but we can’t negotiate with the melting point of ice.”

France, which is home to glaciers in its Alpine departments, and has territory and a science base in Antarctica, has taken a leading role in pushing for agreement at this year’s UN Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, which starts at the end of this month.

Macron also hosted a summit focused on climate finance in June,where he joined the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, to call for trillions of dollars of investment in the developing world.

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I feel like they're melting fast enough already.....
/s if that's not evident
I can complete that research right now for a mere 10% of that. Catastrophic climate change is melting the f'ing ice caps. It's happening faster than expected and we know exactly what needs to be done, and basically we aren't doing it.
Yikes. Funneling money to the ruling class is what got us in this situation.
- They're not gonna stop doing it until everything collapses... Actually, probably only death.
How about spending that 1 billion on renewables for France or other parts of Europe still reliant on fossil fuels.
We know the reason for ice caps melting.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
French president Emmanuel Macron told a summit of heads of state and scientists in Paris: “We are not talking about a threat for tomorrow, but one that is already present and accelerating.
The plight of the Earth’s polar regions and glaciers has sparked alarm among many scientists, as heatwaves at both poles, which were seen for the first time last year, look set to be a regular occurrence.
Among them is Sir David King, former UK chief scientist, and now head of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, who is researching ways to refreeze the Arctic ocean.
Macron, seated opposite her, looked grave, as Pearson, who spent 20 years as a US diplomat working on conflict and geopolitical concerns, continued: “I know that climate change is seen as a soft issue [compared with wars and national security]… but we can’t negotiate with the melting point of ice.”
France, which is home to glaciers in its Alpine departments, and has territory and a science base in Antarctica, has taken a leading role in pushing for agreement at this year’s UN Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, which starts at the end of this month.
Macron also hosted a summit focused on climate finance in June,where he joined the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, to call for trillions of dollars of investment in the developing world.
The original article contains 864 words, the summary contains 226 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!