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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Death and devastation.Heavy rains in southern Brazil they provoked massive floods and landslides in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil.More than half of the state's 497 cities were affected by the storms, with roads and bridges destroyed in several areas.The storms also caused landslides and the collapse of a hydroelectric dam near the town of Bento Gonçalves, killing 30 people.Authorities said a second dam in the area was also at risk of collapsing due to rising water levels. “It is the fourth environmental disaster of this type in a year, after the floods of July, September and November 2023.Flooding across the state has surpassed that recorded during the historic deluge of 1941,” remember AP.The Guaiba River, which runs through the city of 1.4 million inhabitants, he reached the record level of 5.3 meters. “Residents of several...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Beyond imagination”, “Farcical”, “Lies”, “When you put Count Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank…”.The statements made public by COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber have sparked a wave of global disapproval Guardian and from Center for Climate Reporting last Sunday. Two weeks ago during an online meeting, moderated by Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, now an important supporter of the ecological transition, Al Jaber - who, in addition to the United Nations Climate Conference underway in Dubai, is also head of Adnoc, the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates, and Masdar, the state renewable energy company – he stated [min.4] that there is no scientific evidence to demonstrate that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and that phasing out fossil fuels would not allow for a sustainable development unless...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The climate crisis is a fact, as is yours anthropic origin:The relationship of the 2021 IPCC showed that the increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial age, thanks to empirical research and numerical simulations, depends mostly on human activity. Yet still today, in one mixture of ignorance and bad faith, there is no shortage of inroads in public opinion and politics to discredit the efforts of scientists, activists and a part of the ruling class who are pushing for an ecological transition, both from a legislative point of view and from the point of view of electoral consensus.One of the arguments used in Italy and abroad by the conjunction of climate deniers and inactivists is the one according to which the climate transition it would be ridden from the left to impose dirigiste and statist policies, motivated more by hatred for the free market than by science. The sca...

If it is true that Nature does not need man, man certainly needs Nature.Maintaining biodiversity is crucial to our well-being and survival.The free ecosystem services that the environment guarantees us (such as the pollination of plants, the stability of the soil, the refraction of solar radiation by ice, just to name a few) cannot be replaced by artificial plants. Today we are heading towards the sixth mass extinction and man is the main cause:it is the meteorite that is destroying the diversity and abundance of living species and the ecosystems they inhabit.Charles Darwin, noble father of the theory of evolution, was among the first thinkers to accept the reality of extinctions as a fundamental feature of the history of life on Earth, a non-trivial consideration in an era in which creationist and essentialist conceptions of life dominated ( according to which living beings are immutable). Mass extinctions by convention are those in which 75% or more of the planet's living spec...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. These days a heat wave is crossing three continents:Europe, Asia, North America.Extreme temperatures are being recorded across much of the Earth's northern hemisphere.The month of June this year was the hottest so far recorded. The return of El Niño, the cyclical phenomenon that causes the surface of the central-eastern Pacific Ocean to warm, contributes to pushing up the planet's temperatures. There's a good chance that 2023 will become the warmest year on record.But even if it doesn't reach first place, displacing 2016, we are certain that it will be among the top positions.The ten hottest years they are concentrated in the last decade.It is not a coincidence, it is one of the many evidences of the reality of anthropogenic global warming. 🌡️ Extreme levels of heat are affecting large parts of the Northern Hemisphere ⚠️ Exceptionally high temperatures are breaking records in places and dang...