Since April 5, France 3 has been broadcasting the “
Journal Météo Climat
” every evening at 9:05 p.m., a weather report that puts weather forecasts into perspective in the context of global warming.
Sébastien Thomas
, 38, and ex-figure of franceinfo, is at its head.
"
It's being very concrete with people and telling them that global warming is not just the apocalypse
", explains the presenter on the set of "Buzz TV" this Wednesday.
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Still unknown to the general public, Sébastien Thomas was born in 1985 and started very young, at the age of 15, doing odd jobs, from pizza maker to steward.
The summer of 2003, that of the heat wave, he spent on the island of Noirmoutier in Vendée in front of ovens at 200 degrees.
This teacher's son, whose role model is Laurent Delahousse, has always been curious and eventually turned to journalism.
On Twitter today, he comments a lot on television shows, in particular “Top Chef”, his favorite program.
“
I'm from the Twitter generation, I opened my account in 2009. I've deleted a lot of stuff since
!” he says.
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On the private side, the journalist is the father of three daughters, aged between 7 and 11 years old.
In his cover letter for France 3, he also mentioned his role as a father.
"At
nearly 40 years old, I wonder if I was right to have children
," he began, referring to current environmental issues.
“
Would I have made them ten years later?
“, he wonders again.
“
If I see the glass half empty, I say to myself that it is not possible.
At the same time, I tell myself that the generation we are forming is the one that will change the world and there is no inevitability
,” he continues.
Today, Sébastien Thomas “
drunk
” his daughters on these questions and makes them revise the geography of the cities of France.
Since he took up his duties as Mr. Weather, he has been diligently revising the map of France.
“
I'm pretty good with the names of cities except for Montélimar, Agen and Alençon.
So I displayed the card in the toilets and I have the girls revise like that
, ”he proudly tells us.
“I try to dress in made in France, I come by bike to France Télévisions”
Sébastien Thomas at “Buzz TV”
In his daily life, Sébastien Thomas “
does what he can
”.
"
I try to dress in
'
made in France
'
, I come by bike to France Télévisions, I have gourds...
", enumerates the one who also stopped driving.
“
I will fly again when electric aviation has really made progress.
I don't see myself being in the station and at the same time burning liters of kerosene
,” he admits.
The only exception: travel.
His mother living in Reunion and his in-laws in French Polynesia, he forced himself to go back and forth by plane.
"
It allows us to say that France is not only metropolitan and that the question of global warming also concerns Reunion and Polynesia affected by drought and rising sea levels
", he reassures himself again.
