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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It seemed like a quiet night near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine.Then suddenly a roar and the sound of flowing water.“We are now used to loud bangs and so I didn't think it was anything serious,” he said an inhabitant of the southern shore town of Nova Kakhovka.Within minutes water began flowing through a breach.And soon the passage crossing the Dnipro River was washed away.The dam built by the USSR in 1956, an important source of water for the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, for the region's agriculture and for cooling the reactors of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, no longer existed while a massive wave of water began to flow downstream, causing a social, economic and ecological catastrophe. A torrent of water burst through a gaping hole in a dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine, fl...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. That limiting the increase in global temperatures to within 1.5°C, as established in the 2015 Paris Agreement, is an impossible mission without the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy is certainly no longer news.It is a passage now taken for granted by studies and reports by panels of experts and scholars and it is information also acquired by governments.It is newsworthy, however, if it is an oil company that says it. Last week Shell released the “Energy security scenarios”, a new series of scenarios in which the oil and gas company imagines how the global energy system could change over the course of the century.Between the lines of the report – observe Carbon Brief who analyzed the study in depth – it is clear that staying below 1.5°C means immediately putting an end to oil and gas growth. This is certainly new considering that, in previou...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The greater intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological phenomena are now causing enormous damage at all latitudes and unfortunately the death of many people caught unprepared by events for which we were not prepared.We have also seen it in Italy, recently in Emilia-Romagna twice within a few weeks, and last September in the Marche.But early warning systems and better management of the devastating effects of these catastrophic events can save many human lives.At least according to what one reports study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Floods in Emilia-Romagna:an announced disaster and because climate change is also involved According to the report, in the countries most exposed to the consequences of the climate crisis, floods, storms and fires have caused trillions of dollars in economic damage over the last half century, but the number of human victims has f...

The era of global warming is over and "the era of global boiling has arrived", according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.“Climate change is here.It's terrifying.And it's just the beginning," Guterres said.“It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C [compared to pre-industrial levels] and avoid the worst of climate change.But only with immediate climate action." Guterres' words came after climate scientists confirmed that the last three weeks have been the warmest since recorded and that July is on track to be the warmest month on record. The extreme meteorological phenomena that are affecting the entire Mediterranean, increasingly hotter, fires and what we are not doing to prevent them.If we needed further manifestations of the effects of the climate crisis, we are experiencing them first-hand. At all latitudes, from the far west to Japan.Yet, just a few days ago the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke of "difficult b...

“I love the mountains.And when you go to Adamello and Tonale and see the glaciers retreating year after year you stop to think, then you study history and you see that they are cycles.The ice doesn't retreat because Capezzone goes out of gas with his Golf turbo."Even the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Matteo Salvini, did not want to miss out on his contribution to the positions bordering on climate denialism of part of the government majority.​​"In winter it is cold, in summer it is hot...", he further said in Cervia, in Romagna, during the League's summer festival. Salvini's statements come after those of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni (who, referring to the extreme meteorological events in Sicily and Lombardy in recent weeks, spoke of "difficult bad weather" and "unpredictable climatic reality" and, during the closure of electoral campaign of the Spanish far-right party Vox, said that it was necessary to "stop the ultra-ecologic...