Posted on 07/15/2023 12:38:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In Italy today, the number of cities on red alert for extreme heat has climbed from 10 to 15.
The warning points to conditions that threaten the whole population, rather than just the vulnerable.
Italy's minister for the environment, climate change and energy security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, told me that Italy's geographic position means it must accept and adapt to generally hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe extreme weather.
He said that in recent years there had been an "explosion" of awareness of climate change among the Italian population as the country is increasingly impacted.
"Even if Italy is not the world's main polluter, we still need to do whatever it takes to achieve climate neutrality goals together with the European Union," he said.
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They are really laying it on thick now, aren’t they?
I’ve been to Italy several times, and it was just as hot then.
The heat was hot and the ground was dry. But the air was full of sound.
Doity little boid, sittin’ on the coib, choipin’ and a boipin’ and eating doity oit woims!
My dad was there during the rainy season. Got trench foot during World War II. Penicillin saved him from being a double amputee.
Wasn’t all bad for my dad. He did get to see Mt. Vesuvius erupt in March of 1944 and sadly the bombing of Monte Casino. To be fair my dad said all the guys thought it was being used by German soldiers to fire on Allied troop.
Got to see Colosseum but didn’t leave Kilroy was here, etched into it.
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