European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet of France, adjusts his mitt arsenic helium talks to household and friends earlier a motorboat effort astatine the Kennedy Space Center connected April 23, 2021 successful Cape Canaveral, Fla. Through the portholes of the International Space Station, Thomas Pesquet has an arresting presumption of planetary warming's destructive repercussions that negotiators are seeking to tackle astatine the U.N. clime acme successful Glasgow. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) (John Raoux,Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

PARIS – Entire regions of Earth successful flames. Storms trailing demolition successful their wake. And the haunting fragility of humanity’s lone location floating similar a bluish — but besides tarnished — pearl successful the vastness of space.

Through the portholes of the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has an arresting presumption of planetary warming’s repercussions. He utilized a video telephone from abstraction to dependable the alarm Thursday, arsenic negotiators, authorities officials and activists continued gathering astatine a U.N. clime league successful Glasgow, Scotland.

“We spot the contamination of rivers, atmospheric pollution, things similar that. What truly shocked maine connected this ngo were utmost upwind oregon clime phenomena,” Pesquet told French President Emmauel Macron during the call.

“We saw full regions burning from the abstraction station, successful Canada, successful California,” helium said. “We saw each of California covered by a unreality of fume and flames with the bare oculus from 400 kilometers (250 miles) up.”

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From space, “the fragility of Earth is simply a shock,” Pesquet continued. “It’s a sensory acquisition to spot conscionable however isolated we are arsenic an oasis, with constricted resources.”

This is Pesquet’s 2nd ngo to the abstraction station. He besides spent 197 days successful orbit successful 2016-2017. The destructive effects of quality enactment person go progressively visible, helium said.

“Year aft year, we besides cognize we are beating records for fires, for storms, for floods. And that is very, precise visible. I precise intelligibly saw the quality compared to my ngo 4 oregon 5 years ago,” the astronaut said.

Macron said the extremity for clime negotiators successful Scotland indispensable beryllium to velocity up humanity’s response.

“There is inactive a immense occupation up of us, and I deliberation we are each alert of that,” the French person said.

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