Milano, 29 May. (askanews) – Late May, mid-summer weather temperatures, record in Europe and an already very hot Mediterranean. For Antonello Pasini, climatologist physicist of the Cnr and professor of climate physics at the Roma Tre University, these are now evident symptoms of the anthropogenic climate change. The crisis has started, it will take decades to stop it: in the meantime we must adapt to droughtfloods and increasingly intense heat waves. Politics, Pasini warns, continues to think in the short term.
Weather forecast: summer will eat up spring, more every year
“Unfortunately what we see now is a trend that has become clear in recent decades of anthropogenic climate change – explains Pasini – What we must understand is that we absolutely must stop this trend, otherwise summer will increasingly eat up spring, let’s say, earlier and maybe even a little autumn later”.
Hot Mediterranean already in May
“The Mediterranean Sea, already so hot at the end of May – he continues, commenting on the high temperatures recorded in recent days – means that it evaporates more and therefore provides molecules of water vapor to the atmosphere which are the bricks on which clouds are built, so there is more material to form the clouds, the rain. The Mediterranean Sea provides energy, heat to the atmosphere which unfortunately it cannot keep stored for long and therefore risks dumping it on the territories with violent rains and strong winds”.
“The problem is that we always look at things in the short term and we have to understand that this climate crisis has started, that it will take decades to stop it – observes the climatologist – and therefore we have to adapt to what we see now because it will be inevitable in the coming decades to have droughts, floods like now, but we must absolutely avoid worse scenarios in which things would probably be such that we would no longer be able to defend ourselves. So, unfortunately, the breathing space of politics is too short, in this sense”.
Antonello Pasini, CNR climatologist: the weather forecast
“These are obviously symptoms of global warming of anthropic origin, therefore due to the emissions of our greenhouse gases, from fossil fuel combustion, from forestation, sometimes even from unsustainable agriculture. And the symptoms are precisely these, let’s say, impacts on territories, on agriculture on man. Obviously a few degrees more makes us sweat a little more, but it’s clearly not just that.”
“Weather forecasts still have a fairly low reliability – he concludes -. Let’s say that in certain situations we can predict 7-10 days, in others not. And what we have to expect after this heat wave is probably the entry of some cooler air and therefore possible precipitation in the next few days in our areas and not perhaps in all of Italy, but in some particular areas yes”.
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