The appeal of 100 scientists to the Italian media:«It's not bad weather, talk about the causes of the climate crisis»

The letter arrives a year after the first one published on the Climate media center.Among the signatures, also that of the Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi and the climate physicist Antonello Pasini

The introduction is almost identical:«It is our responsibility, as Italian citizens and members of the scientific community, to clearly warn of any threat to public health.And it is the duty of journalists to defend the right to information and disseminate verified scientific news."As it happened one year ago, The Climate media center hosts one open letter signed by 100 Italian scientists and addressed to the world of information.«Journalists, talk about the causes of the climate crisis, and its solutions.Omitting this information condemns people to a sense of helplessness, precisely in the historical moment in which it is still possible to build a better future", is the appeal.Among the signatories are the Nobel Prize winners Giorgio Parisi and the climate physicist Antonello Pasini.But there are many leading intellectuals:the former minister of Draghi government, the statistician Enrico Giovannini, the meteorologist Luca Mercalli, the environmental engineer Stefano Caserini, the philosopher Telmo Pievani.

Scientists start from the consideration that «the month of June 2023 was, globally, the warmest since temperatures have been recorded.We don't yet know how many deaths this summer's heat waves will cause, but we know how many last summer's intense heat caused them:more than 60 thousand in Europe alone, 18 thousand in our country, the most affected.Heat waves, floods, prolonged droughts and fires are just some of the signs of the intensifying impacts of climate change in our territories."It is the prelude to the reprimand towards the world of information:«Despite this, the Italian media still talk too often about "bad weather" instead of climate change.When they talk about it, they often omit the causes and their solutions.It is as if in the spring of 2020 the news had only talked about hospitalized people or deaths due to respiratory problems without talking about their cause, that is, the Coronavirus, or the solution, vaccines."