Antonio Scalari

“A disaster announced, but we ignored the signs.” Meteorologist Luca Mercalli doesn't mince words about the flood that hit Emilia-Romagna, causing 13 victims and leaving 20,000 people homeless:«Global warming must be stopped, we are all guilty.Nobody wants to make sacrifices except the kids who fight for the climate." 500 mm of rain in a few days, as much as falls in a year in Aosta.The rivers cannot absorb such a quantity of water, the soaked soil collapses, the entire system goes into crisis. Floods in Emilia Romagna:an announced disaster and because climate change is also involved In its annual report on global average temperatures, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said there is a good chance that in the next five years the Earth will experiment new temperature records and global warming will exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, a threshold beyond which there could be far-reaching repercussions for health, food safety, water management an...