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Banks reduced to sandy beaches, dried-up rivers, dried-up canals:Coldiretti and Legambiente launch the alert for the consequences of the drought

Mild temperatures and low rainfall have reduced the Po level by 61%

For now there are no injured or missing people, but the images of the floods in Emilia-Romagna in recent hours have brought us to mind what happened just over a year ago.Among the municipalities involved there are Faenza and Castel Bolognese, already seriously affected in May last year.In Faenza the Marzeno river overflowed and flooded some countryside south of the city.In Castel Bolognese, the overflowing of the Senio has caused flooding that is approaching the center. Flood in Emilia-Romagna:the causes and interventions made so far, and what to do to mitigate the risk and address climate change The Municipality of Ravenna, in the night, signed an ordinance in which it invites those who live along the banks of the Lamone and Montone rivers to go to the upper floors or to reach the Pala De Andrè, open as a reception point.In the municipalities of Russi, Bagnacavallo and Forlì, among the most affected areas, citizens were invited to avoid unnecessary travel as muc...

Climate denialism is a phenomenon documented by dozens of books, studies and journalistic investigations.It is a real, historical and phenomenon organized.Whatever the reasons that push us to embrace it - personal beliefs, economic interest, political ideology or a combination of these elements - denialism is based on the production and diffusion of misinformation.This misinformation also manages to reach public opinion through the voices of those who we can define as "false experts", or "pseudo-experts". Fight against the climate crisis between youth activism, political-media denialism and the indifferent - Conversation with Antonio Scalari [podcast] We have also seen this in recent weeks:people appear in the media who talk about climate change with the hat of experts, even when they have no actual expertise on the subject.Recently he intervened on La7 Franco Prodi, an atmospheric physicist who has not worked on climate change during his career.These people give i...

After theEtna eruption, which occurred in recent days, an old hoax has started circulating again:Volcanoes emit more CO2 of human activities. Etna has just told the geniuses of the Last Generation who is in charge, says a profile on Twitter.Those who relaunch this hoax think, in this way, of giving a raspberry to the activists and of revealing to the world truths that we all had before our eyes, but which we did not see because we were blinded by propaganda gretina And green.Because the idea, of course, is always that everything that revolves around climate change originates from the heads of activists.Scientists didn't know that volcanoes emit CO2, nor that the Sun is larger than the Earth, as a collaborator of the newspaper informs us The Truth.Let's see how things are. In 2022, the energy sector, the one responsible for the majority of emissions, produced 36.8 billion tons of CO2.Volcanic activities generate every year 200-400 million tons of CO2.Two orders of magnitude difference,...