From her participation in international programs in Greenland and Antarctica to her experience within the IPCC, the climatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte shares her journey with us, and evokes the necessary commitment–and the form it can take–of a researcher working on these questions. A book that makes us take stock of the importance of climatology, to better understand these abrupt changes, and to anticipate their implications for the future evolution of the climate and our planet.