The alarm from climate scientists:“Life on Earth has never been more in danger”

The international study:25 of the 35 vital signs tested are off the charts."Social collapse" is around the corner.In Italy alone, there have already been 1,899 extreme events since the beginning of the year

ROME – The Earth's "vital signs" are at their lowest.There's still a pulse, but who knows for how long. “The future of humanity hangs in the balance,” say the world's most important climatology experts.“Social collapse” is around the corner.This is stated in a report published in the journal Bioscience picked up by the Guardian, which examined 35 vital signs in 2023:25 of these are the worst on record, including carbon dioxide levels.This indicates a “new critical and unpredictable phase of the climate crisis”, scientists say.

The report describes a dying planet:the temperature of the earth's surface and oceans has reached an all-time high, fueled by record burning of fossils; the human population is increasing at the rate of approximately 200,000 people per day and the number of cattle and sheep of 170,000 per day, greenhouse gas emissions now break all records.

The researchers identified 28 feedback loops, including increased emissions from melting permafrost, that could help trigger multiple tipping points, such as the collapse of Greenland's enormous ice sheet.Global warming is causing increasingly deadly extreme weather, from hurricanes in the United States to 50-degree heat waves in India. Billions of people are now exposed to extreme heator.

“We are already in the midst of an abrupt climate upheaval, jeopardizing life on Earth like humans have never seen before.”, says Professor William Ripple, of Oregon State University, who co-led the group.“Ecological overexploitation – taking more than the Earth can safely give – has pushed the planet into the most threatening climate conditions it has ever seen.”

“Climate change has already displaced millions of people, with the potential to displace hundreds of millions or even billions.This would likely lead to more, perhaps even partial, geopolitical instability social collapseAnd".

In Italy alone, there have already been 1,899 extreme events since the beginning of the year – say the data collected by the ANBI Observatory on Water Resources – of which 212 tornadoes (52 in the first half of September, 71% on the Tyrrhenian coasts), 1,023 storms (157 in the first half of September, 91% on the Central regions -North), 664 hailstorms with large grains (37 in the first half of September, record in Versilia with grains of diameter between 7 and 9 cm).Emilia-Romagna was particularly affected, having recorded 3 disastrous floods in a year and a half.

According to the WWF, information in Italy does not seriously address the problem of the climate crisis, it does not connect the dots, it does not give a sense of the consequences already underway and of the delay in action to try not to advance the climate chaos they have human activities are entirely responsible, starting from the use of fossil fuels, and to address the enormous damage now caused through adaptation.