Balbuzard and the keys of knowledge

06.Sep.2010 | 5 MB - pdf

Balbuzard and the keys of knowledge

Balbuzard and the keys of knowledge

© Myriam Dielemans

Balbuzard and the keys of knowledge" is a pedagogical tale for about the reconstruction of past climate based on air bubbles trapped into polar ices. The tale presents the research done by professor Claude Lorius, a glaciologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to children

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