{"id":68240,"date":"2024-07-05T17:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=68240"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:18:51","slug":"big-oil-fuels-climate-crisis-extreme-weather-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/68240\/big-oil-fuels-climate-crisis-extreme-weather-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil fuels the climate crisis in Italy and around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story was originally posted by Greenpeace Italy, in Italian<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n

Intense rain and thunderstorms, hail and strong winds hit the Valle d\u2019Aosta and Piedmont regions in northwestern Italy recently, causing flooding of waterways, landslides and the isolation of entire towns. These communities are facing a devastating disaster, with hundreds of people displaced and injured. Seven people reportedly<\/a> were killed in neighbouring France and Switzerland and there are additional victims and missing persons. We express our deepest solidarity with everyone affected. <\/p>\n\n

People have experienced moments of terror, have been evacuated, lost family members or seen their homes and businesses destroyed, finding themselves now in extremely difficult situations. Sadly these are challenges faced by communities around the world who are impacted by extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n

The oil and gas industry makes huge profits from people\u2019s suffering, reportedly over US$ 2.8 billion every day for the past 50 years.\u2063 Currently, big oil pays nothing towards the costs of increasingly severe extreme weather events despite the fact that they have known for decades that they’re fueling extreme weather, but invested billions to hinder climate action.\u200c\u2063 The price is left with all of us, especially those hit the hardest.\u2063<\/p>\n\n

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Damage of the floods and landslides occurred after heavy rains in northwestern Italy is seen in Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta regions of Italy on 30 June 2024. Emergency teams intervened in the disaster.
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The devastating effects of the climate crisis<\/h3>\n\n

This is not just an exceptional weather event, but the real consequences of climate change driven by the polluting fossil fuel industry. We spoke with Antonello Pasini, climate physicist from the CNR, Italy\u2019s National Research Council, about how climate change driven by human activity is causing extreme weather events in the region to become more frequent.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cGlobal warming of anthropic origin in the Mediterranean basin has caused air circulation to change, increasingly leading to the entry of strong anticyclones. These bring great heat and drought, but when they give way, even just slightly as happened in this case, they bring in colder currents that generate an enormous thermal contrast with the pre-existing warm and humid air, all on a very overheated land and sea. All this generates violent rainfall and flash floods.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis, especially in northern Italy, is the result of human-made climate change. Heat and drought on the one hand, flash floods on the other, are unfortunately two sides of the same coin: recent global heating.”<\/p>\n\n

The situation in the flood-stricken areas of Italy remains critical and the emergency is not over. Extreme weather continues to devastate communities around the world. The climate crisis is a reality that impacts the lives of each and every one of us.<\/p>\n

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