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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The fires around Palermo, on the island of Rhodes, in Greece, in Algeria;the torrential rains that hit Milan at night;the record temperatures that continue from week to week and divide Europe, and Italy in particular, in two:thunderstorms in the north, Saharan dust in the centre-south. Perfect image to summarize what Italy is experiencing.Thunderstorms in the North and in part of Tuscany, intrusion of Saharan dust in the centre-south suspended within desert air masses.It is the last act of 17 days that are unlikely to be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/RJ7OgwRZwu— Giulio Betti (@Giulio_Firenze) July 25, 2023 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.Nevertheless it's still there those who sow doubts, belittle and pollute the public debate by claiming that it is not the first...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. According to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the first week of July was the world's hottest ever recorded since global temperatures have been recorded with "potentially devastating impacts on ecosystems and the environment".At least three series of data indicate this, explains the WMO:those managed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), those collected by the University of Maine and those by the European Union climate monitoring service, Copernicus.With a global average temperature of 17.24°C on July 7th has been overcome the previous record, reached on 16 August 2016, was 0.3°C.Then, as today, the El Niño climate phenomenon influenced global temperatures. The month of June had already been the hottest month on record and this week Italy could touch levels never reached in Europe, writes the Guardian. &ldqu...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The fire emergency repeats itself every year, in July there is the peak of attention, but then in winter there is not enough work on prevention.In Italy, after almost 160 thousand hectares of land were burned in 2021, an improvement was recorded in 2022 with "only" 68,510 hectares affected by fires, and the summer of 2023 also begins with a low risk level thanks to the abundant rains in recent months.Like every year, the race started in mid-June Aib campaign (forest firefighting) on ​​tasks, responsibilities and initiatives that the various bodies and administrations must undertake in the event of an emergency.But before the emergency, what was done in winter to prevent fires?According to many observers, not enough.“In Italy there is still a lot of focus on active fire fighting and not so much on prevention,” explains a Blue suitcase L...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Is called "The Just Cause”.It is the campaign that promotes the legal initiative that ReCommon and Greenpeace and twelve Italian citizens - coming from areas already affected by the impacts of climate change, such as coastal erosion due to rising sea levels, drought, melting glaciers – have filed against ENI, the first of its kind against a private company in Italy.The two organizations and the citizens involved they filed a civil lawsuit against the energy company "for the damages suffered and future, both financial and otherwise, resulting from climate change to which ENI has significantly contributed with its conduct in recent decades, despite being aware of it". In short, according to ReCommon and Greenpeace, although ENI has been aware since 1970 that the combustion of fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change and the "catastrophic" r...

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...