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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...

Springer Nature, one of the major scientific publishers, said he withdrew a peer-reviewed study by nuclear physicist, Gianluca Alimonti, agricultural meteorologist, Luigi Mariani, and physicists Franco Prodi and Renato Angelo Ricci, because it presented misleading conclusions on the impact of climate change.Prodi and Ricci are among the signatories of the World Climate Declaration, which states that "there is no climate emergency" and that "enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is advantageous".Franco Prodi is one of the so-called "false experts", or "pseudoexperts" - in the sense that despite being scientists (in Prodi's case, atmospheric physicists) in their career they have never dealt with climate change and cannot be considered experts of the matter - often interviewed in the general media giving the misleading impression that the scientific debate is still open. The study's lead author, Alimonti, he argued in 2014 that there is no consensus...

The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke on the morning of December 2nd at United Nations Climate Change Conference, underway in Dubai (COP28).The Prime Minister claimed Italy's role in the decarbonisation process and in the effort to limit the increase in global temperature to within 1.5 °C.But he did so in the framework of a speech in which he intended to reiterate his approach to climate change and the energy transition:"pragmatic", "free from useless radicalism", "non-ideological". COP28, what happened to the climate crisis? These watchwords are the ones that have always characterized right-wing discourse on climate and the environment.If we evaluated them only for their literal meaning we would not be able to understand why they return so frequently.In fact, taken like this, who wouldn't make them their own?Who would not agree that the fight against global warming, or any other action in any other field, must be pragmatic?Who wouldn't claim n...

After the publication of our article on the essay signed by Italian physicists withdrawn by the scientific publishing house Springer Nature, one of our readers reported to us the reply of the first signatory of the study, the nuclear physicist Gianluca Alimonti.In response to Retraction Watch, Alimonti linked a post by Roger Pielke Jr which - explains our reader - "provides a view of the facts from the other side and questions the process that led to the withdrawal of the paper".The comment ends like this:“I mention it for completeness, not because I agree with it.” The scientific publishing house Springer Nature has withdrawn the study by four Italian physicists which denied the impacts of the climate crisis Precisely these last words give us the opportunity to state that the time has probably come to leave no room for arguments that stage a scientific debate on climate change that is actually over.In the case of climate change, "providing multiple...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “My generation betrayed Greta Thunberg's.”The words are of Pete Betts, “a legend of climate diplomacy and of the United Nations Climate Conferences”, as Simon Sharpe, a former British civil servant, defined him in his recent book Five Times Faster.  Whereas Betts was the UK Government's International Director for Climate and Energy for ten years, lead negotiator at COPs for the European Union and for the United Kingdom at the United Nations on climate, and has managed international climate finance for a worth approximately 3.5 billion euros, his words are more than a bitter personal observation, they are a political message that calls the international community into question.They almost sound like an admission of the collective failure of a generation of political leaders, journalists and social partners, incapable of grasping the crucial importance of...