Cambiamento climatico

Springer Nature, one of the major scientific publishers, said he withdrew a peer-reviewed study by nuclear physicist, Gianluca Alimonti, agricultural meteorologist, Luigi Mariani, and physicists Franco Prodi and Renato Angelo Ricci, because it presented misleading conclusions on the impact of climate change.Prodi and Ricci are among the signatories of the World Climate Declaration, which states that "there is no climate emergency" and that "enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is advantageous".Franco Prodi is one of the so-called "false experts", or "pseudoexperts" - in the sense that despite being scientists (in Prodi's case, atmospheric physicists) in their career they have never dealt with climate change and cannot be considered experts of the matter - often interviewed in the general media giving the misleading impression that the scientific debate is still open. The study's lead author, Alimonti, he argued in 2014 that there is no consensus...

“If things continue like this, these holiday destinations will have no long-term future.”The recent controversies over statements of the German Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, on holiday in Italy during the terrible heat wave in mid-July which saw temperatures constantly above 40 degrees, are symptomatic of a country which, having devoted itself body and soul to tourism for years, he only conceives mockery towards those who dare to say that the king is naked (due to too much heat). If it is true that the news of the following days, with the crises of the big cities like Palermo And Catania and the escapes of tourists from Veneto and from Puglia, took it upon itself to confirm Lauterbach's forecasts in essence, it is equally undeniable that the reaction of the operators was to considerably raise prices, as detected from the survey by the Demoskopica institute.In a short-term projection which however is simply limited to speculating on current tourist flows.Suffice i...

While as humanity we increasingly feel the consequences and impacts of climate change in our daily lives, we have been discussing for weeks the book by General Vannacci, best-selling in Italy, which defines the climate crisis is a "bogeyman" and claims that the tons of CO2 that we emit are a good "because they allow us to be born in a hospital". All this in the same weeks in which Copernicus, the European climate change service, he said that in 2023 we had the hottest summer on record.Heat waves, floods and fires have not abandoned Europe and North America.In the Alps, freezing point was reached at 5,328 meters (and it is another negative record).The storm that hit eastern Libya is news in recent days. There is currently talk of over 5 thousand deaths.Phenomena of this type are intensifying as the planet warms. The climate crisis is getting worse and not newsworthy And while it's still there who tries to insinuate doubts And question the anthropic origin of c...

The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke on the morning of December 2nd at United Nations Climate Change Conference, underway in Dubai (COP28).The Prime Minister claimed Italy's role in the decarbonisation process and in the effort to limit the increase in global temperature to within 1.5 °C.But he did so in the framework of a speech in which he intended to reiterate his approach to climate change and the energy transition:"pragmatic", "free from useless radicalism", "non-ideological". COP28, what happened to the climate crisis? These watchwords are the ones that have always characterized right-wing discourse on climate and the environment.If we evaluated them only for their literal meaning we would not be able to understand why they return so frequently.In fact, taken like this, who wouldn't make them their own?Who would not agree that the fight against global warming, or any other action in any other field, must be pragmatic?Who wouldn't claim n...

The contribution of women in the various fields of scientific and humanistic studies occupies an important part of public discourse through conferences, meetings and publications.The book should be placed in the context of this debate First.Ten scientists for the environment, published by Codice and edited by Mirella Orsi and Sergio Ferraris.Orsi is a chemist and expert in scientific dissemination, while Ferraris is a journalist specializing in science and technology.Enriched by a preface by Maurizio Melis, this overview of the main scientific discoveries made by women spans the entire modern and contemporary era. The story of the ten scientists is entrusted to as many narrators with a scientific background, an absolutely equal number between women and men.This is a selection, as the editors underline in the preface, as the list of female scientists who have contributed to the development of human knowledge in the scientific field is naturally much longer.The selection followed a c...