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Science has demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, the anthropogenic impact on global temperature increases.According to the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the temperature increase from 1850-1900 due to human activity is valued at around 1.1 degrees centigrade and that, even with rapid and large-scale interventions, it will take at least thirty years before the climate stabilizes. The question then shifts to the type of policies and behavioral changes necessary to reach climate targets and limit the temperature increase to between 1.5 and 2 °C by the end of the century, the limit threshold set by the Agreement reached at the Conference of United Nations Climate Change Report of 2015 and, beyond which, potentially irreversible turning points could be overcome, as shown in a report by the IPCC of 2018.To do this it is necessary to consider three aspects. The first is still the scientific one, monitoring the dynamics of climate phenomena and a...

With Minister Lollobrigida, as we know, the last gaffe is always the penultimate.In the sense that the owner of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, as well as brother-in-law of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, produces continuously.But that of May 10th, pronounced to the question time session of the Senate, according to which "fortunately the drought this year has affected some areas of the South and Sicily in particular", deserves particular attention.First of all why, how remember The paper, the lack of water has repercussions on agriculture in general and specifically on viticulture, perhaps the sector that is closest to Lollobrigida's heart, as well as on forage and therefore on farms, as underlined by Coldiretti, the association more listened to by the minister. But above all because the drought follows the "palm line".The expression was invented by Leonardo Sciascia in the book The day of the owl to theorize, already in the 1960s, the advanceme...

The transformation of cities is essential to respond to the climate crisis, and this not only because half of humanity (3.5 billion people) lives in cities and by 2030 this will become 60%, but also because urban settlements are important centers for the production of climate-altering emissions.Cities occupy just 3% of the earth's territory but they are responsible 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of CO emissions2, as well as 70% of greenhouse gas emissions.If we want to achieve a real energy transition, many things will have to change. Starting from these considerations, within Horizon Europe the mission has been defined:reach the number of 100 cities with zero climate impact by 2030.The cities involved, selected from 377 candidates, will have to bring forward the global climate neutrality goal to 2050 by 20 years.Among the selected urban centers there are 9 Italian capitals:Bergamo, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Padua, Parma, Prato, Rome, Turin. The mission will also involve c...

Criminal conspiracy aimed at disturbing the peace.Five Just Stop Oil activists, including one of its co-founders, 58-year-old Roger Hallam, on July 18 were sentenced to unprecedented prison terms for planning to block the M25 motorway in November 2022:a Zoom call was sufficient for the conviction which, according to the sentence, demonstrated "the intricate planning and sophistication of the disruptive action" and constituted "irrefutable proof" of the existence of a criminal conspiracy. Who are the Just Stop Oil activists? Just Stop Oil is a British group of climate activists, founded in 2022 and known for its disruptive actions, such as blocking major roads, disrupting sporting events, throwing cornmeal paint on monuments such as Stonehenge.The group calls its protest tactics actions of “non-violent civil resistance to pressure the British government” on the issue of anthropogenic climate change.The first Just Stop Oil protests aimed to stop al...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. For the first time in the Atlantic Ocean a category 5 hurricane formed at the beginning of the summer and this is not a good sign for the rest of the year and our immediate future.This is the case of Beryl, the first major hurricane of a season that will arrive until late November, which went from tropical depression to storm and then to hurricane in the space of 48 hours.The speed with which Beryl transformed into a Category 5 hurricane is a bad sign for the Atlantic hurricane season which, fueled by increasingly rising ocean temperatures, is becoming more dangerous and unpredictable.So much so that, how underlines Simone Fant on Renewable Matter, some scientists are proposing to add an additional category – category 6 – to measure the intensity of hurricanes. “This early-season storm activity is breaking records set in 1933 and 2005, two of the most in...