Cambiamento climatico

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The world is racing "on the highway that leads straight to climate hell with its foot pressed on the accelerator". He didn't mince words the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Conference which is being held this year in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to define the gravity of the situation facing the planet and give meaning the urgency of the actions to be taken.Looming in the background are the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the rising cost of living and growing global tensions. “We need a climate solidarity pact between developed and emerging economies:either they work together to make a historic deal that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a low-carbon path, or we will have failure, which will mean climate collapse and catastrophe,” Guterres added.“It is...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. More and more often, after news of fires, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, storms, droughts, we hear that we need to start getting used to what could soon be "the new normal".If we do nothing, what seems like an exception today will become the norm.Yet talking about a "new normality" suggests that what we are witnessing is an irreversible, slow, linear and, in some ways, natural and foreign to us process.But that's not the case. “This is not the new 'normal' and the climate is not just changing, it is destabilizing,” writes Greta Thunberg in her latest book “The Climate Book” (out November 1st) and of which the Guardian he published some extracts.“Until now, Earth's natural systems have acted as a shock absorber, dampening the dramatic transformations underway.But the planetary resilience that has been so vital to us will not las...

According to a study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in the next five years the Earth will experiment new temperature records and global warming will probably exceed 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels, a threshold beyond which there could be potentially irreversible disastrous consequences for the planet. New #StateofClimate update from WMO and @MetOffice: 66% chance that annual global surface temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of next 5 years 98% likelihood that at least one of next five years will be warmest onrecord. pic.twitter.com/30KcRT9Tht — World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) May 17, 2023 The relationship, published on May 17, found a 66% chance of exceeding the 1.5°C threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027 (last year for the five-year period between 2022 and 2026 the probability was 50%).For each year from 2023 to 2027, global near-surface temperatures are projected t...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. This summer's extreme temperatures, drought, fires, landslides and heavy rains, and the soaring prices of gas and electricity have placed energy and climate issues at the center of public discussion.But if the energy crisis has catalyzed the attention of politicians, the climate remains an issue that struggles to be a protagonist in this "summer electoral campaign".Nevertheless, they underlined Fridays for Future activists at the end of July, "these are our country's first climate elections."In early August the Italian Society for Climate Sciences published a open letter (reached almost 220 thousand subscriptions) in which he asked to Italian political parties with strong adaptation and mitigation actions to combat the climate crisis. The think tank ECCO analyzed the "climate policy" proposals of the main coalitions, examining the programs deposi...

Senate approves bill against climate activists Update July 14, 2023:The Senate has a bill passed to punish with more severe penalties damage, disfigurement, soiling and illicit use of cultural and landscape assets.The proposal is from Minister Sangiuliano but absorbs other bills proposed by the League and the Brothers of Italy in recent months.The bill, which has yet to be examined by the Chamber, provides, in addition to criminal sanctions, an autonomous administrative sanction imposed by the prefect for a sum between 20 thousand and 60 thousand euros.The crime of damage is then modified (art.635 of the Criminal Code) and that of defacing or soiling other people's property (art.639 criminal code).For the first, a fine of 10 thousand euros is added to the aggravating circumstance already foreseen by the Salvini-bis decree for the case in which the damage is committed during a demonstration in a public place or open to the public.For the second, punishment is also foreseen if the defac...