Science places a priority: knowledge. It is ongoing, interrelated and accumulation. Unfortunately, in the field of biology has to deal with a significant delay compared to other sciences. This gap is rapidly closing due to a general interest that even forced flows from too rapid changes in the environment around us changes in climate on a global scale are an unequivocal testimonies. Understanding the evolution of the natural environment of our planet, analyze and understand what happened in the past two centuries and what impact this has, is and will have on the near future is the most urgent concern that modern man must solve. Evolution has always obeyed the rhythms and timing dictated by the conditions surrounding the large number of local ecosystems, where animals, plants and microorganisms interact and compete for better adaptation to surrounding conditions and within certain limits, to modify them. These changes never occur during the life of the individual organism, but they need a long time to allow the information collected and transferred to the scale of the descendants of adaptability to produce those changes necessary to ensure the survival of the species of reference. Biology and ecology assume, therefore, a strong interdisciplinary ties. The ecological and evolutionary mechanisms become closely interdependent. Man belongs to the animal kingdom, the class of mammals, the order of primates, the family of hominids, the genus Homo, the species homo sapiens, so it can not escape the great law of 'underlying the bio-ecological evolution.
All organisms, including humans, proceed on two tracks: one belongs to individual existence, the other the evolution of the species. The information contained in the genome remain unchanged in the life of the individual, but in time, then this message will change in offspring and gave new instructions for the adaptation of species to echo-environmental conditions surrounding it. No animal is conscious of this except the man who, thanks to its cultural evolution has taken note though only recently. The processes of adaptation and slower long only because the environmental change they are also subject to long and slow as unpredictable catastrophic events that occurred and determine the time of the dinosaurs to extinction. Maybe a huge meteorite or an unimaginable volcanic eruption produced a sudden change in environmental conditions which prevented the evolutionary adaptations to many species. Unfortunately the human animal through proteins during evolution, unlike other animals, have enabled him to develop the concept of the future, he constantly used all of the possible strategies to improve the quality of life for himself and for descendants. Prowler insatiable energy to the service of his selfishness, he pursued gradually and without discrimination, the advent of industrialization, the rush and conquest of the well-being, creating an exaggerated industrialization in the production of everything and more, though not evenly distributed ( but that's another story), by achieving emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that is causing mutations in the atmosphere at rates so fast towards the point of no return that will not allow the great laws of biology to conform to these times. Another great extinction is looming like dinosaurs?

From reliable sources:

“The climatic destabilization begins with the industrialization and unfortunately it continues to worse nowadays. In the half of the 19th century the carbon dioxide value was about 280 particles each million and only 100 years later the same value is increased up to 360 particles each million. From 1950 until 1999 only 11 countries have emitted 530, 3 milliards tons of carbon dioxide: the U.S.A. 186, 1 milliards, the European Union 127, 8 milliards, Russia 68, 4 milliards, China 57, 6 milliards, the Ukraine 21, 7 milliards, India 15, 5 milliards, Canada 14, 9 milliards, Poland 14, 4 milliards, South Africa 8, 5 milliards, Mexico 7, 8 milliards and Australia 7, 6 milliards.
If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, the molecules emit more heat which again can increase the global temperature. Carbon dioxide in combination with other types of greehouse gases like methane (about 10 % of the food, given to industrially grown up animals, are transformed in methane which ends in the atmosphere) and azote becomes a dangerous cocktail for the environment. The result of this mixture is the climatic instability. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) publishes a study in 1994 which reveals that the emissions of carbon and petroleum have emitted an excessive quantity of sun heat. These alarming alterations have created high temperatures, extrem droughts and catastrophic alluviums in many parts of the globe; moreover, entire ecosystems have been irreversibly modificated and epidemics have cropped up.
After two years of work, a team with over 1000 scientists prooves in the study “Climate Change 2001”, that the temperatures of the planet will continue to increase: the minimum will be 2, 8 degrees until the end of this century.
This value is 100 % higher than the value foreseen of the same team 15 years ago in 1985. And if these 5, 8 degrees continue to increase in the same way?
Only this value would create disastrous damages on the ecosystems: alluviums, landslides, hurricanes, and all consequences such as lack of water, the development and spreading of new diseases; in fact, these ecological problems will not only cost milliards of dollars, but they will be the realization of apocalyptical visions.
The Global Commons Institute has estimated the costs, caused by the damages of the climatic change, about 200 milliards of dollars until 2005 and about 400 milliards of dollars until 2012. In the year 2051 they even could exceed the 20.000 milliards of dollars.
The first areas, hit by the climatic desasters, will be the coast areas because of the elevation of the sea – level: entire cities, little isle states and all their popolations could be devasted by hurricanes, violent stormes or the elevation of the sea. The increase of the surface sea – temperature up to 26 until 27 degrees is one of the conditions which create hurricanes in the tropic areas. The increase of the globe increases the sea - temperature a fact that favours the formation of hurricanes. These hurricanes represent one of the most destructive desasters with which we' ll have to deal with.
Once a time the hurricanes have been rare events, today they’ re always more frequent because of the ecological crises caused by man and the combination of climatic change, industrialisation and deforest. Until the half of the last century the average of the hurricanes was 73 km/h, today it is 260 km./h The more the temperature of the sea will continue to increase, the more hurricanes we will have.
Next we have only a few of the hundreds of calamities that happened due to the climatic changes between 1995 and 1999: in the year 1995 a flood hits nearly 10 millions of persons in Bangladesh, leaving 70 victims. Always in 1995, the isle St. Thomas in the Caribic islands is devasted by hurricanes. At the same time in Europe, the Netherlands and France get hit by alluviums never seen before. The greatest drought in the South of Spain is registrated at Cadige still in 1995, the temperatures reach the unbelievable 34 degrees in Russia and the hot temperatures reach 45 degrees in the North of India and kill 300 persons.
500 persons die because of the heat wave in Chicago and Great Britain has the hottest summer since 350 years and the driest season since 1721. The nordest of Brasil suffers the worst drought of the century and in the month of june, forest fires burn down intere forests in Canada, nearly 100.000 hectars each a day. 280.000 hectars of forests and pastures burn down in Mongolia, too.
2000 persons die in Andhra Prades in 1996 due to the most intense cyclone of the century. 600 persons die in Angola always in 1996 due to the taiphoons, and 5 millions of persons loose everything because of the unexpected alluviums in Corea.
The worst drought ever seen destroys millions of hectars of wheat in Oklahoma and Kansas so that the U.S.A. grain reserves are the lowest since 50 years. Lack of food and water are registrated in the Indian areas Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orrissa and Chattisgarh again because of the drought.
In 1997 30 persons die and 120.000 persons loose their houses in the Philippines due to the inexhaustable rain quantities. Still in 1997 a series of frost and disastrous thunderstorms provoke damages of 25 millions of dollars in the North West Pacific.
An alluvium destroys 100.000 farms in Bolivia. The river Ohio passes the water - level about 12 meters, dragging 57 persons to death. Thousands of people in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia have even to leave their houses along the river bed. The alluvium of the Red River creates damages about 2 milliards of dollars in the Canadian Manitoba, in North and South Dakota and in Minnesota. Still in 1997, the winter temperatures in Rio de Janeiro reach 42 degrees.
13 litres of rain per square meter come down in only 14 hours in Peru in 1998 and destroy more than 800 kilometers of streets and bring 60 bridges to collapse. A month after 3084 persons get infected by the colera in Ecuador, 108 persons die due to the alluviums and landslides and 28.000 persons loose their houses.
Still in the same year, the rivers Juba and Shabeele pass the water - bed and kill more than 2000 persons and millions of cattles in the Corn of Africa. A horrible snowstorm torments the heights of Western China always in 1998: over 60.000 shepherds from the provinces Quinghai and Tibet loose 750.000 cattles, nearly all food reserves and 48 persons their live. This snowstorm was 4 times intenser than normally and the temperatures reached 49 degrees under zero. In the same month a lots of rice fields are destroyed by alluviums in Laos which provokes a lack of food for more than 10 millions of the popolation of Laos who risk their lives for undernourishment.
In June, still in the same year, 330 persons die in the Yemen, where pass the worst alluviums of the last 40 years. The malaria breaks out, due to the alluvium, transformed in stagnant water, and causes 168.000 infected people and 30 victims.
More than 13.000 forest fires destroy entire areas in Mexico, killing people and releasing environment alert in Mexico City. Texas proclaims the state of emergency after that the smoke clouds have moved to the Golf of Mexico. The smoke of the forest fires provokes emergency situations in Indonesia and Malaysia: airports and schools get closed, two ships collide in the straits of Malacca and causes 29 victims; 
the bad visibility brings even crash an airplane with 234 passengers and car crashs leave behind another time houndreds of victims.
In 1999 a horrible cyclone destroys the East of the State of Orissa in East of India: about 2 millions of houses and 730.000 hectars of rice fields get destroyed in twelve coast districts.
80 % of the coconut palms are uprooted or destroyed and all the papaya and banana plantations are wipped out. More than 1500 persons and 300.000 cattles die, and more than 15.000 watertights get contaminated by salty water. We have no ufficial numbers about the victims, but they are reckoned about 20.000.
Unfortunately we have a constant increase of dramatic events caused by the climatic changes even in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003: cyclons, hurricanes, droughts and vast forest fires, intense snow storms and polar temperatures create destruction and death on the whole planet, up to 35.000 victims in Europe due to the extrem heat in the summer 2003. France and Italy keep the record of human victims, most of all elderly people.
The climatic change, the consequence of the greenhouse gases produced by the pollutions of the "homo sapiens tecnologicus", doesn' t only increase the number of alluviums, cyclons, droughts and extrem heats, but melts even the polar ice - caps and the glaciers. The snow cover of the Northern hemisphere is reduced more than 10 % in the last 30 years.
Due to the climatic changes the globe temperature is increased about 1 degree as compared with a century ago. After 1983, always in the last century, we have the 12 hottest years; the four absolut hottest years only in the last 10 years. Since 1980 the average temperature of Alaska and Sibiria is increased 4 degrees. The ice - caps not only form later, but even break earlier, reducing inexorably. During the last 40 years the thickness of the sea glaciers in the Arctic is decreased about 40 %. The increasing temperatures are even melting the mountain and continental glaciers. The mountain glaciers are reduced 400 cubic kilometers between 1961 and 1997. The extrem heat produced by the greenhouse effect is responsible for 8000 joule, regarding the fusion of the ice of the Antartic and Greenland, and for 1100 joule, regarding the melting of the mountain glaciers.
The glaciers are disappearing in the Alps, in Alaska and in the State of Washington; the Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain of Africa, has lost over 75 % of its ice - cap; only two of six glaciers of Venezuela are still visible and it´s foreseeable that the glaciers of the Glacier National Park of Montano will be totaly melted until 2070. The glaciers of Gangotri, which are feeding the river Ganges, reduce 5 meters every year. Only the melting of the ice - caps beyond the polar regions will increase the sea level 5 centimeters, too.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change foresees an average increasement of the global temperature between 1,5 and 6 degrees until 2100. The global catastrophe seems not to be avoiable. The Aosis demands that the emission levels of carbon dioxide get reduced 20 % compared to 1990. Germany and Great Britain suggest a reduction of 10 % until 2005 and of 15 % until 2020. Dutch scientists point out even a reduction between 60 % and 70 %.

Once again from reliable sources

At the end of 2003, one of the hottest years in the history of man, the Oceonographic Institute "Woods Hole" has published a research which reports that the salinity of the polar seas is decreasing continually, while the salinity of the tropical seas is increasing; besides they have registrated radical changes of the oceanic running waters that regulate the stability of the world's climate, while extremely strange and violent metereological effects have been registrated more or less everywhere.
These scientists considerate the actual change of the circulation of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic the most worrying oceanic change ever measured since the invention of instruments for their survey.
The disappearance of the Gulf Stream could turn into the worst catastrophe ever seen in the history: it wouldn' t save any being on the whole surface of earth; all would have been involved and there wouldn´t be any safe zone. The affected area would be very large and the damages would persist until the reappearance of the Stream. We could remain caught in this climatic trap for thousands of years with the nearly total reduction of the Earth to give living - space for all beings.
The continuos changes are part of the normal climatical developement of the earth: there have been a lot in the history and in the last 3 millions years they have followed regular cycles. The emergence of the terrestrial isthmus in the centre of America, 2, 8 millions of years ago, modified the fondamental structure of the oceanic running waters and this fact, united with changes of the emissions of sun energy and a light change of the terrestrial orbital, stabilized more or less our climate.
After that there have been a lots of Ice Ages, each one of a duration of about 100.000 years, spaced by interglacial periods of 10.000 until 15.000 years; and the whole human history has been developped in the last third of the most recent Ice Age.
The next Ice Age will begin when the oceanic running waters will stop to bring warm water in the polar regions and when the snow will not smell any more for several summer times. This will provoke the increase of the superficial reflexion of the planet to the point that will be consented the formation of glaciers of very large extensions. But before this can come true, there will be a bottom of heat, followed by a violent change of the meteorological conditions. We nearly reached this increase of temperature in the summer 2003, when the temperatures in Europe reached unprecedented levels. Even in the Arctic the thermometer was reading temperatures which have been extremely higher than the normal temperatures. The consequence of the extreme increasing of the sea temperature would have been the formation of an apocaliptical cyclonic event that would have triggered of this process of climatical change with unimaginable consequences for the survival of all beings of our planet. 
Besides the scientists are convinced that there wouldn´t have been any continent, city, village or person that would come out of it unharmed and the worst aspect is that this change could happen at any moment.
The man has not the possibility to intervene on the cycles that are alternating Ice Ages and interglacial periods, but a good project regolated by the Constitutional World Charta in order to protect the Ecological Democracy can minimize the impacts of climatical changes on our civility and maybe even postpone or reduce the violence of the devastations.
But unfortunately the governments of several states are not able to find an agreement for their common environmental politics. If the statesmen committed themselves more to ratify the Protocol of Kyoto, we could reduce the emissions of CO2, particularly in the industrialized countries where it is more easy to control the levels of pollution.
The challenge regards everybody, industries, governments and every single consumer of energy: if this decision was accepted by only 20% of the European, American, Canadian, Japones and now even Cinese (<= for the moment the megaconsumers of energy) citizens, the worldwide levels of the CO2 emission could decrease. So the human factor could have a minimal impact on the global temperature increase, by slowing down in a considerable way the final devastations.
But, on the contrary, there is a lack of engagement by the governments' leaders, most of all by the United States of America which have adopted a position of dangerous and aggressive indifference towards to the climatic changes, and all that in a moment in which milliards of human beings are threatened. All the people who ignore deliberately the danger will not only be responsible for the greatest catastrophe that could become true at any moment, but they will even be responsible for the end of the modern civilization, the best, the most free and perhaps the most evoluted that mankind has ever known." 
The 26th of December 2003: an apolyptical earth - and a seaquake affects the Southern Asia killing life in the affected territories.
The dimensions of this event are so strong that the isle of Sumatra has been moved more than 30 meters and that are caused even variations in the terrestrial axis.
If there is a connection between this event and the continous climatic variations? It´s too early to say it, but it' s not too early to think it!

Finally something is happening. Consciousness and conscience are growing steadily

The year 2005 and all the catostrophes and thousands of victims, confirm once more the dramatic worsening of the climate change, which is conditioning in an exponential way our own existence and that one of our planet. The year 2005 has unfortunately a record of tropical hurricane stormes, like the hurricane Catherine, which has destroyed nearly whole New Orleans, and which has created extreme rainfalls in whole Europe. The cry of help of the climatologists is always more pressing and the attention of the scientists is concentrated always more on this argument.
A new discipline is born: Geo - engeneer or Eath or Climate engeneer. The target of this discipline is to find solutions - some of which sound very often like taken from a Science Fiction Stories - able to slow down as fast as possible the warm up of the Earth to gain time and to replace the polluting energy with the non polluting, like for example the Brasilian Airline, which has replaced the kerosine with ethanol. But it doesn' t need only the will, to realize the new projects, but even time, a lots of time.
In order to lower the temperatures, the physicist Lowell Wood wants to construct an huge umbrella in the space, formed by reflecting balls, which are flying in the stratosphere or made by reflecting metallic platforms. 
They have to get fixed in an adequate orbital and so they can reduce the forth of the sunrays. The sunlight, filtered in this way, has nearly the same power as the sunlight on a cloudy day.
Or you can create clouds: they increase the albedo, the quantity of light, which the earth reflects into the space. The project of Stephen Salter, Geo - engineer at the University of Edinbourgh, is to create swimming stages which should rotate turbines with wind energy. The windenergy pulverizes the seawater and this condensation favours the formation of clouds.
These clouds would reduce the sunrays and decrease the average temperatures of the Earth. But what could be the consequences of all these projects on the climatical changes in a lot of parts of this Earth? Some simulators are just active, in order to examine the lateral effects of these projects.
Other projects want to exstinguish first of all the climate enemy no. 1: the CO2. The oceonographer John Martin has observed that iron is favours the increase of microscopic little algas which absorb CO2 for their metabolism. That' s why the enriching of the World seas with iron could lead to the absorption of a lots of iron by these algas. Due to scientifical studies one kg of iron is able to absorb 100.000 kg of CO2. But if these algas would get to much, an huge intervention could affect the biological balance, formed in millions of years. 
To plant trees may function for some regions, but unfortunately not for the whole world. If we remind us, that only one burning tree, creates the same quantity of CO2, which he has absorbed during its whole existence, we will notice how palliative this solution is.
Klaus Lackner, physicist at the Center for Earth - engineers at the Columbia University, proposes to filter the CO2 directly out of the air, with filters enriched by hydroxides of iodine or calcium, famous for their capacity to absorb the gas. An huge filter, as large as a television, could absorve about 25 tonnes of gas. But if you want to absorb 30 milliards of tonnes of CO2, which is the quantity, that the mankind produces in only one year, how many filters would have to be realized? It would be a Cyclopean enterprise. 
Roberto Bencini, geologist of the Istituto Nazionale for Geologia and Vulcanologia, explains that it would be easier to catch the CO2 in the underground, like they do just in different regions in order to get nature gas and in some thermoelectric centrals where the superfluous CO2 gets absorbed and, compressed, injected into a deep water table.
Another plant in Canada is injecting every day 5000 tonnes of CO2 in an oilfield about 1,6 km of depth with the double vantage to better even the exploitation of petrol. The studies have shown that in these fields the CO2 seals itself with the silicates, and so it gets transformed into minerals, which refill the porosity of the rocks. It' s estimated that 99, 999 % of CO2 will remain down there about 5000 years.
The CO2 could even get locked under the sea, where it would remain because of the pressure. 
Extreme projects, which may seem on the first sight futuristic, but which express of lots of initiative and fantasy, to repare the damages, which have anthropical components and which want to recreate balance. 
Damages, which - if we can believe all the scientists - can' t be repared never again. And so the scientist foresee the worst: the exstinction of all living forms in a short time.
Before the new technologies can be used, it' s absolutely important to stabilize new limits for the CO2 by the Protocol of Kyoto, because the actual limits aren' t sufficient for the battle against the climate effects, and that every nation has to respect these limits, above all the United States of America and China, which are living an enorm economic increase, at the cost of extreme consequences for the pollution of the environment.
The warm up of the Earth is happening every day in front of our eyes, and every day we hear about these problems in the mass media. At the end there are the scientists who examinate the climate and the destructing effects, and they notice, that these phenomenons have been increased enormally in the last 30 years. It's absolutely time that the cultural conscience grows, and it has to grow fastly, because it' s absolutely necessary for a radical change, and we, if we don' t want to get punished by the death penalty, have to partecipate.

Even in 2007 the list of the ambient catastrophes is longer than a year ago and it continues to seem the most normal thing of the world: we’re doing nothing and we’re living in a passive and relaxed way, but we’re always hoping to be never hit.
If we name once again all the catastrophes that really happened this year, we would have to repeat the same things we said before, with the only exception to describe new dramatic sceneries.
But ….. the conscience and the knowledge of all the problems and risks that have to do with the climatic change get always more important in the public life.
And so we suspect that al the real motivations are in the Shock Economy - or better: in the capitalism of the catastrophes.

In November 2007 we inform about the following ultimate in a report of the UNO
"Either we chance all our lifestyle or there will be an ambient catastrophe because of the …!"
The secretary of the UNO, Ban Ki-moon, supported by the most important scientists in this field, announced, after a very deep analysis of the rain forest and the Antarctic, that the consequences of the warming-up of the climate can be considered like an "horror film". At Valencia in Spain, where the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change) met, has been declared that there’s no time anymore.
The IPCC is the scientific committee that 1988 has been formed by different organisms of the United Nations, the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) and the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) with the object to observe the warming-up of the earth in the whole world. The continuously published reports of the IPCC base on the worldwide conventions, among other things the frame conventions of the United Nations about Climate Change and the protocol of Kyoto that realizes them.
In this year the American Ex-Vice-President Al Gore has won the Nobel Price for his efforts in developing the public awareness of the environment and the risks of climate change. The numbers are always the same, just published in the 4th rapport: the sea level has grown in the last 100 years about 1 meter and unfortunately it continues to grow.
In the future the following consequences because of the continuous melting of the icebergs will probably hit most of all big cities in the Asian area; in the meanwhile there will be without water more than 250 Mio of persons until the year 2020 in Africa.
A third of all plants and animals will risk to disappear on the whole world.
In the whole world there will be extreme events and catastrophes which will change life on the whole world.
This report arrives a few days after the conference of Bali has to control the Protocol of Kyoto that has just been surpassed by all the dramatic events.

For the scientists of the UNO there is no space for discussions and doubt.
We have to act immediately and drastically. Within 2012 (and only 8 years remain) we have to stop the increasing of the pollutants and then reduce them immediately, otherwise there will be irrevocable. In this dramatic vision we can affirm - for heaven’s sake - that people take more and more notice of the importance to finally change something. Even China and India, two states that continue to grow econamically, seem to react more sensible on the control of the polluting effects. In the United States Al Gore has hurt the American economy and production with his raising up of the public ignorance; but they begun immediately with the opening of a new market for eco-products and the destruction of the polluting ones. 
This strategy that wants to lead to a change of the mind could enrich all those who are just rich and powerful.
Even if the richness doesn’t fall like rain on our earth, so there will grow the hope that the future generations will survive and that they will enjoy all the fruits and all the beauty of our earth - just like our forefathers did millions of years ago.

Bali moderate optimism.

The conference of Bali that united representatives of the whole world in order to redefine the limits of greenhouse gas in view of new catastrophically facts, was once again without any concrete solutions.
After 13 days of top secret negotiations the "roadmap" of Bali has been accepted with the common consensus of envoys of 190 present countries. But the United States expressed their intention to prepare a new proposal, though they’ re still contrary to the fixation of the obligatory greenhouse gas emissions. It provides a plan, in order to treat a new convention about climate change that should replace the protocol of Kyoto in a more ambitious way.
“Kyoto 2” that should be treated within the next 2 years, will be firmed in 2009 at Kopenhagen. The new treaty will get in vigour at the end of 2012. 
The treatment that will be published by the new member partners, should be obligatory for all countries from 2013 on. And we dont't have to forget Australia, that finally firmed the Kyoto protocol during the conference of Bali. And at the end even Italy which produces much more greenhouse gases than the fixed limits, and so they’re at the end of all countries in battle with climate change.

2008, year of the "20-20-20"

Green light by the College of Commissioners of the European Commission's plan to combat climate change. This is a package of legislative proposals on which the EU council had already found the cartel in March of last year, setting the objectives outlined by the abbreviation "20-20-20". That is the achievement of 20 percent of energy production from renewable sources, improvement of 20 percent efficiency and a cut of 20 percent in emissions of carbon dioxide. Targets to be reached before the date of 2020. In the case of Italy, will cut 13% of C02 emissions in areas not included in emissions trading scheme (ETS) and will increase by 17% energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020 compared to 2005 levels . Now the commissioners have better defined those goals, divided into five different standards to which is added a document on state aid. As well as before the European Parliament, the document must pass the examination of Member States. Brussels hopes to approve the measures by 2008 but Mr Barroso has said to expect "difficult negotiations". An anticipation of the hardness of the clash that you consume in Europe were unable to observe recently during the debate of legislation to reduce emissions of CO2 to be imposed on car manufacturers in the production of new cars. The package to combat climate change Union, in addition to the objectives of 20-20-20 also provides for an increase in use of biofuels, 10 x percent in the transport sector.

Even in 2008 analyzes the relationship arising from the three 'working group' of Gieco, (The Gieco brings together the best researchers worldwide and is an intergovernmental group of experts on climate, born in 1988 at the initiative of the World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment and was in particular to the Kyoto Protocol), the meeting of world experts on climate change stipulates that the climate catastrophe is around the corner and threatens to close our survival. The new report says that Gieco of the greenhouse effect exists and that it is accelerating. Over the past 10 years, both concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperatures have risen much faster than in the past. According to figures that were circulating before the last meeting (November 2007), in 2100 the experts advocating a doubling of concentrations of CO2 (550 parts per million) compared it to pre-industrial period and at the same time, temperatures could rise 2 to 4.5 degrees. A huge leap when one considers that since the last ice age, occurred 10,000 years ago, the current average temperature has risen by 5 degrees. Unfortunately, these increases in emissions ago reflected a diminished capacity to absorb CO2 from oceans and vegetation. While 50 years ago for every tonne of CO2 emitted these "reservoirs" absorbs 600 kg, only 550 kg are removed from the atmosphere, with a trend to a further decline. The specialists in 113 countries gathered in Paris to 90% estimate the probability of a liability in human overheat climate. The Earth will respond to a catastrophic warming during this and the next century. The computer simulations of Gieco have predicted a global warming of 1 ° F every 10 years and 5-6 ° C (10-11 ° F) by 2100, which would cause a global catastrophe whose effects on human life, the habitat natural, energy, water and food. All this is based on the assumption that global warming is caused by CO2 in the atmosphere and that this growth will accelerate. The largest increase in emissions occurred in developing countries, especially China and India, while in industrialized countries, adhering to the Kyoto Protocol emissions have increased slowly. China has overtaken the United States and became the country largest emitter of CO2 in the world, while India will soon exceed Russia.

Catastrophic predictions for the future: millions of people in Africa to suffer water shortages by 2020, about one third of plant and animal species risk extinction, and climate change will have negative effects on the health of millions. The most surprising conclusion of the report is that the poorest regions of the world that suffer most from the effects of warming of the globe. According to the report approved by some 400 delegates at the Gieco, representatives from over 120 nations and then delivered to policy makers, any change of lifestyle and behavior may contribute to the reduction of emissions (greenhouse gases) in all sectors. The cost reduction can be accessed and the need to act quickly is, in the opinion of the experts, not postponed. The Europeans want the United States and emerging countries (China, India, etc.), Which does not participate in the Kyoto Protocol, also undertake to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases under this new agreement, what currently refuse. Use chopsticks to the Kyoto Protocol and a future not encouraging for rivers and seas of Italy and southern Europe. Despite the imminent return to the presidency in the White House, the U.S. did not seem inclined to accede to the Protocol of Kyoto. This is what they have reported the two advisors of the two candidates for the presidency, Mc Cain and Obama, a Corrado Clini, director general of the Italian Ministry of Environment in a conference with the theme "Acting in time on energy policy" held at the University of Harvard.

Obama, however, after his election, with a VCR to "Governors' Global Climate Summit" convened by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Beverly Hills, California, announced that the U.S. wants to take a leadership role on domestic and international problem Together with a dependence on foreign oil, the economy weakens and threatens security. It will begin by establishing a system of roof and trade in emissions of greenhouse gases (the system of the Kyoto Protocol) and annual targets for reducing the U.S. which will lead to the same 1990 levels by 2020 and a further reduction of '80% By 2050. Will be invested 15 billion dollars annually to renewable energy. It 'clear that Obama policy on climate change represents the real opportunity. We shall see!

Meanwhile, the Arctic Ocean is losing ice cap with an advance of approximately 30 years compared with IPCC predictions. Now it is expected that during the summer ice could disappear entirely between 2013 and 2040, a fact that has never occurred for more than a million years now. Marine ecosystems in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are now exposed to milder temperatures ever recorded since measurements began, resulting in unpredictable on the ecosystem, while the Mediterranean suffer droughts in the long term with increasing frequency.

Make the journey from North Cape to come close to Bering, on the occasion of 90th anniversary of Passage north-east, the first company from exploration carried out for Norwegian Roald Amundsen. is the goal that has set the shipment "BEYOND, Beyond The Edge 2008", which came from Milan on November 30 2008, that Petter Johannesen, granddaughter of Roald Amundsen and leader of the expedition, ripercorrerà stages of the Switching to North-East for the first time by mechanical means (jeeps), from North Cape to the Strait of Bering, challenging the extreme weather conditions of winter Siberian. The trip itself will end at the close of Bering in March 2009. Dispatch participate in total 45 people including scientists, doctors, journalists, photographers, video operators, drivers, mechanics, who will take turns every 30 days provided in 12 stages. The shipment was born in a spirit of adventure, but it also raises targets associated with the development of knowledge, scientific research, acquisition of environmental data through the comparison between the reality of early last century (the one told by the diaries of Amundsen) With the present one. The collection and comparison of scientific data will be of great importance to the IPCC.



The glaciers in the Swiss Alps continue to decrease, resulting in drastic reductions in the production of hydropower. Globally, it is expected that rising sea levels will be equal to twice the maximum dell'IPCC forecast, which estimated an increase of 0.59 meters by the end of the century, with serious risks for large coastal areas. The increase in temperatures has already resulted in a reduction in crops of wheat, corn and barley throughout the world. According to the latest studies, in the British Isles and the North Sea cyclones extreme increase in number and intensity, leading to an increase in wind speed and damage associated with storms over western and central Europe. The level of ground-level ozone, which acts as a pollutant, will be similar to that recorded during the heatwave of 2003, with further increases in England, Belgium, Germany and France. And even the maximum annual rainfall will increase in most of Europe, with consequent risk of flooding and economic damage.

E 'became clear that climate change is already having an impact greater than most scientists had anticipated. It is therefore vital that the international response to cutting emissions and adaptation is faster and more ambitious. The last IPCC report showed that the reasons for concern are now stronger and this should lead Europe to commit themselves because the increase in global temperature is well below 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial. But even keeping the 2 ° C, according to the IPCC is necessary that developed countries reduce emissions by 25 to 40% by 2020 compared to 1990, while a 20% reduction would be insufficient. If the European Union will be regarded as a decisive leader in the UN summit in Copenhagen in 2009, and if he wants to contribute to the emergence of a strong global agreement to tackle climate change after 2012, should not continue to shirk their responsibilities and commit for a real reduction in emissions.

The agreement on climate and energy package, despite requests for tolerances and adjustments to the economic conditions in free fall in the world, was approved unanimously by the EU. The agreement reached on 12.12.2008 by the EU summit is a "historic" for Nicolas Sarkozy and reason for great optimism for Al Gore, both champions of the need for Europe to pay for pulling the world towards combating climate change more challenging and effective.

09.07.2009 at L'Aquila - G14 "..... we govern or events or events govern us ...."!
This is the opening of the U.S. to the world that President Obama gave in Summit when he addressed the issue of climate upheaval.
Emerging countries have shown a willingness to contribute to solutions to problems, India and China take time even with timide openings.
Historic agreement? Planned for 2050 killing of '80% of the pollutants.
By 2015, doubling the investment for clean energy.
Meeting in Copenhagen for the turning point?

Regarding the appointment of Copenhagen on 7-18 December 2009, Simone Jacca tells us: " Environment, last call: Copenhagen, 7-18 december The conference on climate in Denmark: the mistakes of yesterday and today for not making a mistake months ago domaniQualche Intelligent Life magazine, supplement to The Economist, has put an interesting question that has sparked an unusual debate among scientists, professors, politicians and journalists around the world. The question is the most important year in history: a way to think about what we are, who we are, where we came from and especially where we go. The experts consulted by the magazine of course have not reached an agreement. And so I have flown all kinds of dates: 44 BC to the death of Julius Caesar, 1492, for the discovery of America, 1945, by the end of World War II and Nazism, 1989, for end of communism, or year zero for the birth of Jesus Important years, central to the history of events and of humanity. But in the end the authors have spoken of the survey and concluded provocatively (but not much) that the year will be the largest in history in 2009: "If a December summit in Copenhagen on climate change the powers of the earth does not put agree, we will have wasted the last chance to save the planet and thus ourselves. " What we did "In a historic moment this insignificant human mammal has subjected the other species and upset nature." Giorgio Ruffolo, in his essay "Capitalism has ever counted (Einaudi, necklace ostriches, 2008, pp. 295, € 16.00), is almost romantic in the telling of this century-Titanic, to name the famous disk Francesco De Gregori, that in the "far" 1982 was clearly the past one hundred years compared to a ship crowds, strong, committed suicide. A ship led by a captain, the man of the twentieth century, there, sitting on deck, smoking his pipe, you can enjoy the exploits of his creation. Meanwhile, as we said Ruffolo, consumed in a short time and once and for all the endless masses of fossil fuels accumulated for billions of years into the womb of the earth, primeval forests and oceans plankton deposited in the form of coal and oil. Buried under sand storms million hectares of virgin lands, destroying the fertility and desertifying continents. Enslaved fish, birds and land animals have gone well beyond the biblical prescription. Contaminate groundwater introducing unusual poisons. Liberata huge masses of methane from manure concentrations of giant farms. Destroyed much of the billion and a half hectares of tropical forests. Spread in soil, water and air tens of millions of chemical pollutants. Causing the massacre of other plant and animal species, leading to a dramatic decline in biodiversity, soared in recent decades by the rate of extinction of one species every four years to about one extinction per year. Everything in this world, this moment in history, "this night electric and fast, / in this cross of the twentieth century / the future is a cannonball on / and we are almost reaching" (Francesco De Gregori, Muscles captain, from Titanic, 1982). What we run into But despite everything, there is something worse, something more serious, more urgent, something worth bringing together all the heads of government of the world and make decisions compelling and courageous: climate change. And yes, because the previous list of terrible and perhaps irreversible disasters is very little compared to the gradual rise in temperature that we live and which we encounter: we speak of a global mean rise of 5,5-7,1 degrees Centigrade by 2100. Six degrees, so it seems almost silly in front of the excursions of 10-15 degrees to which we are accustomed in the months of April or September-October. But, in reality, you're grades are far too many, and have consequences that go beyond our physical sensations. For example: a fifth of all animal species threatened with extinction, 1-2 billion people without water, melting of Himalayan glaciers and the whole of Greenland, and at the end of the century, the Amazon, home to half the biodiversity of the planet, turned into an arid savanna. And if this were not enough, National Geographic Channel has presented a map of the different possible scenarios in the next hundred years for each degree of increase in global temperature. • + 1 position: no more corn on the world market; • + 2 degrees: the destruction of coral reefs; • + 3 degrees continuous cycles of drought and sand storms to Central Europe; • + 4 degrees: the disappearance of Venice, New York and all major coastal cities and the North of Canada would become the most fertile area of the planet; • + 5 degrees instead of the temperate zone of the two hemispheres would create two huge areas uninhabitable; • + 6 degrees: the planet would return to the environmental conditions of the Cretaceous period. Who we trust? So Copenhagen, 17 years after Rio and 12 years after Kyoto. Between 7 and 9 December 2009 again, according to many the last chance to change something. The Danish table is divided in two: on the one hand we have the green Obama, who meanwhile has not yet ratified the return of the United States in the Kyoto Protocol, after the dramatic retreat in 2001 with the advent of Bush. With him a number of governments seem prepared to take intransigent positions: English Brown, the newly elected democratic prime minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama and few others. On the opposite side the large group of developing countries (China, India, Brazil and Indonesia) that claim the ability to adapt to the Western world and to achieve that wealth that we have overwhelmingly achieved in the sixties. To these must be united various Berlusconi, Putin and Sarkozy, who, using a euphemism, are not very sensitive to environmental issues. It's all about choice. Between money and life, between the present and future, between war and peace, between collaboration and oppression, between a new pact, another Kyoto, with serious commitments binding, executives and a new reference, leaving the sensitivity and the good will of individual countries with the daunting task of protecting us from an ominous future. And sensitivity and will, as we have seen, there is little fun! Especially in our part ... What hope The expectations, therefore, are transformed into a single, tenuous hope. Weak, but alive. The hope that history has taught us not to blindly and obsessively look only at present but to turn increasingly look to the future, aware that every achievement, every peak conquered, it immediately loses meaning and significance we can not guarantee even those who come after us. This hope, however, must be preceded and accompanied by a statement of awareness on the part of all, that our lifestyle is clearly not acceptable and sustainable and that any waiver is necessary. But this is only possible when we realize that the Titanic is unsinkable and that the sea before us is difficult and treacherous, and that, given the mountain of ice must act more responsibly and humbly of the fanatic Captain singing De Gregori: "Young man, I do not see anything. / There is only a little 'foggy announcing the sun. / Let's go quietly. "      Image: Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina. Photo courtesy of Massimo Musetta (maxim970@tiscali.it) and inserted in Chile and Bolivia. Travelogue January 2003 (copyright 2003).

09 dicembre 2009 "Please save the world ""

Thus began the conference on the climate. The opening ceremony begins with a video: some children who represent the future, showed a scenario that projects us in the Apocalypse. Certainly a provocation, but also advocated, although this summit did not materialize appropriate action by the Heads of State present.

This is an event of historic significance. There are more than 300 journalists. Just a few newspapers worldwide, including Republic, The Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and Toronto Star is a party appeals expressed in a common editorial, "Unless we unite to take decisive action, climate change will devastate the our planet and with it our prosperity and our security, "said the 56 newspapers that say they have decided this unprecedented step, to speak with one voice, to ask world leaders to" make the right decision "to Copenhagen. "The political representatives meeting in Copenhagen have the opportunity to decide what will be the view of the history of this generation, one that understands the threat and that it has fallen short with its shares, or a so stupid she had seen at catastrophe and not doing anything to prevent it. We implore you to do the right thing. ".

   The situation today: click on

The stall is the only reality that emerges from Copenhagen.
The U.S. Senate has gagged President Obama not having spoken about the agreement before the summit. The U.S. role is undefined, such as China and India who claim to be willing to walk the path of clean energy production but require strong fianza in support of sustainable development. The availability of Europe to the capital was regarded as "peanuts" compared to 500 billion € per year predictable, but unthinkable for the economies of most advanced countries, otherwise its economic collapse. Scientists have now studied the research on the phenomena taking place, are realizing the human impact on climate upheaval: their cry of alarm contrasts, however, with the indispensable requirements of macroeconomics, especially at this moment in history already shocked by the economic crisis in westernized countries that still is present. Poor countries will suffer the most damage! Large corporations have always refused to conform to the Kyoto agreements to continue to exploit the resources at the expense of everyone: unimaginable that they can do it today.
Global emissions have increased by 40% from 97 to today, despite the tremendous efforts made by Europe to restrict the pollutants, but insignificant increases in emissions compared to Chinese, Indian and U.S. reaching nearly 50% of global emissions and require immediate remedial action to environmentally sustainable development that would slow their growth.
The macroeconomics imprison the Earth and gag available to the Heads of State Summit, but deaf to ratify the treaties.
Surprise move: the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. will make available by 2020, their participation in the 100 billion dollars to underdeveloped countries and are "ready to take the necessary steps to achieve a complete and operational agreement on climate and there must be doubts about the willingness of the U.S. to achieve success in Copenhagen.
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Copenhagen to participate with several other Heads of State and Government Summit on climate. He told a photographer from Agence France-Presse on the scene. .

From a press bend of 18/12/2009 0re 10.36

"The discussions held during the night in Copenhagen between thirty heads of State and Government at the initiative of the EU ', were" fruitful and constructive "but are" still far from a result. " It 'as stated by the Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen Lars Loekke chairman of the Conference on climate. This morning the leaders of this group have already resumed their work, while in Copenhagen it's U.S. President Barak Obama. Many hours of work at night to search hard for an agreement on measures to be taken to curb global warming. Negotiations to the death here in Copenhagen where the UN summit on climate is truly arrive in the pipeline with the arrival of leaders.

Pending the entry into the scene of Barack Obama, scheduled for this morning, the heads of state and government have rolled up their sleeves and began to negotiate seriously, even through a swirl of bilateral talks which had its climax today with the meetings that the American president will have - here in Copenhagen - with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Brazilian Lula Ignacio da Silva. Also convened an extra-summit night in a race against time, though many think it will be necessary to extend the meeting another day. In late-night announcement of the Danish prime minister, Lars Rasmussen, the meeting is bearing fruit and that it is prepared a new draft agreement to be presented this morning at eight leaders. There would be efforts to reduce emissions of polluting gases to keep the temperature increase below two degrees and the objective of long term finance in developing countries with 100 billion dollars a year by 2020. The report, according to Reuters, sources who participated in the talks and who have asked to remain anonymous. "It 'been a useful and fruitful meeting," said Rasmussen, confirming that the Sherpas will be working all night to make "further progress". The breakthrough that has given breath to the negotiations, but once again "made in USA" even though the Europeans have pushed hard for a top result. Obama was preceded by surprise by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday morning has spread generously confidence accompanying statements of good will with a strong opening: the United States agreed to participate in fund aid for developing countries 100 billion dollars by 2020. He stands the unknown China yesterday showed an excess of tactics: first he threw into a panic by the negotiators of the United Nations know that a deal was "impossible", and then, through a statement by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, called for a Agreement balanced, just and reasonable. " Meanwhile, perhaps not surprisingly, is a study of shock leaked UN says clearly that if you sign an agreement under current conditions the planet would be at risk disaster. According to this a confidential document, bids for reducing CO2 emissions on the negotiating table, would lead to an increase in average global temperatures three degrees from the target of 2 degrees. Translated: 170 million more people would suffer for the floods and 550 million more risk from hunger. "
Reading between the lines tells us that each carries its strategies and a hypothetical agreement should result safeguarding everyone's faces.

MINI climate agreement.
An agreement with no figures on CO2 reduction, with the recognition of the scientific evidence establishing a maximum 2 degrees increase in temperature, and with certainty only on the funds, $ 30 billion in the period 2010-2012 and 100 billion dollars l 'year by 2020. A win is China, which had refused to 2050 global emissions target of 50% for all countries. The EU accepts, albeit timid, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy expressed "disappointment" for the lack of reference to cutting global emissions, and announces a new conference in Bonn within 6 months. But the night on the document ignite tempers.
In the plenary session of the Conference, when all seemed a foregone conclusion, apart from the barrage of Latin countries contesting the procedure that led to the text. A captain rebellion and once again the symbol of the Conference, the small archipelago in the Pacific, Tuvalu, which threatens to sink under the pressure of climate change. Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia makes it clear that the future of his small state "is not for sale" and cites the 30 denier of Judah. The same line wavelengths involved burst Venezuela, Cuba, Costa Rica, Bolivia.

Writes - Stefano Polli --
"They called agreement but it seems something very like a failure. The magic of Barack Obama will not work in Copenhagen, and after eleven days of grueling negotiations and irritating the mountain summit on the climate thousands of politicians, experts and technicians gives birth to a mouse 'small agreement. An agreement, if so we want to call, downward, harvest the wire in a negotiation conducted without conviction and without courage and carried forward by the great of this world - except Europe - just watching the national interest and ignoring the chasm that sees clearly the future of a fragile world and exposed to the consequences of pollution and 'greenhouse effect. The vetoes opposing visions of the great men of selfish world - the U.S. and especially China - have forced the Copenhagen conference to yield an agreement without breathing and without a vision that can give perspective to solve climate problems, and that will force the community international new appointments in the short term, in the coming months. Missing numbers in this agreement and words alone can not suffice. Just as not sufficient on their own goals of limiting warming to 2 degrees and the bottom 30 billion dollars in immediate resources (2010-2012) and 100 billion dollars a year by 2020. Where are the national commitments to reduce CO2? And Where is the reference for the overall reduction of 50% to 2050? The figures must be made within the first February 2010 and the international community will, as told French President Sarkozy, to meet again in Bonn in six months for a rematch. It 'an agreement is not binding, as explained by Obama, who has acknowledged that it is an' understanding 'is not enough. Beyond. It is a 'cartel splitting large: on the one hand the U.S. who have reached the hours of frantic consultations an agreement with India, China and South Africa and other Europe which, while Obama was already in flight to return to the U.S. had gathered to find an effective way to express his frustration. U.S. and China - the biggest polluters of the world - have remained firm on their positions, insufficient to resolve the major problems of the global economy. L 'Europe has sadly confirmed that fails to affect the international scene in front of the growing power of the new Global Director, the Washington-Beijing G2. Inevitably come back to mind the commitment, strength and determination with which the great of the world have responded, only a few months ago, the recent financial crisis, the money spent and the timeliness of their efforts. None of this has seen these days in Copenhagen. And in this simple comparison is the clearest image of the failure of Copenhagen. "G77: The group that collects the poorest countries and the developing protest. The agreement "is the worst in history" of the UN summit. "This alleged agreement is a total failure, is also a step backwards compared to the Kyoto Protocol." E 'harsh response from the Director General of Greenpeace, the French Pascal Husting, the first reading of the final text of Copenhagen. "If a head of state will try to say that this agreement is a success - added Husting - will win the Palme d'Or for the communication of the most misleading. In the draft circulated disappear binding commitments and collective, in their place a list of the availability of every single state. "There is only one point - he continued the head of Greenpeace - which speaks of mandatory agreements. The Kyoto Protocol was insufficient, but at least it was binding. This text is proof that national self-interest prevails and is also the weaker version circulated among those present. "The scientific data are uncertain and can not change - concluded Husting - but if after all these years later, this means that the policy has failed. Then there are only two possibilities: either we change the policy or change the politicians."

2010 - Environmental disaster

          Thanks British Petroleum! 

The only real answer is that you deserve the world markets refuse your products and...forever

The weather continues to show intense anomalies in the world. Decreases in frost days with minimum temperature less than or equal to 0 ° C, while increasing the tropical nights and summer days. There is also increased surface temperature of the oceans: the North Atlantic has maintained an intensity of between +1 and +2 ° C, the same as in 2008, while in the tropical Pacific, the anomaly is slightly positive since June . In terms of the peak drought has occurred in Mexico and East-Central Africa where drought has caused a great famine for 23 million people. Abnormalities of equal intensity have also affected the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the northern tip of Asia, Australia and South-East Asia. The intense thermal anomalies that affected the southern regions, has paid a reduced extent of Arctic ice cover (third lowest after 2007 and 2006).
In Russia, for example, the peak was recorded in February with average monthly temperatures from 3 to 6 ° C below the 1961-1990 average. Heavy snowfall (the most abundant of the last 55 years) have affected the northeast of China, while the record of snow cover has been achieved in North America.
As for the rains, particularly intense rainfall have invested during the month of June, Central Europe and China, where they destroyed numerous homes and drastically reduced harvests.

Global warming melts "the mountain of the Ark" in the last 30 years the glaciers of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, would be reduced by about one third of their surface. The alarm was launched by the geologist Akif Mehmet Sarikaya, which preceded the publication of the results of a study on the ice of the mountain on which, according to legend, would have stalled the ark of Noah after the Flood.

The exceptional heat wave that has stifled Russia, droughts and fires that have killed dozens of people destroyed thousands of hectares of wheat fields are all signs that climate change causes extreme weather conditions worldwide. Said Alexander Bedritsky, meteorological adviser to the Kremlin, who cited other disasters that may be linked to global warming as the terrible floods in Pakistan, the most serious in the historical period, wave of heat in France in 2003 that killed 15,000 people. Taken together, "these are signs of global warming," said Bedritsky, who is also president of the World Meteorological Organization, in a press conference. Moscow is traditionally very cautious on climate change in a country whose economy depends heavily on exports of oil and gas. The heat wave in Russia, the strongest in 130 years of temperature records, has raised thousands of fires, especially west of the country, burying Moscow under a pall of acrid smoke for a week, a phenomenon that has doubled mortality in the city. Drought and fires have cost to Russia is a third of grain crops and the government has decided to block the export of wheat until the end of year, causing price hikes on international markets.

Might separate the Crimea from Ukraine. Not so much politically as physically. The possibility that in the near future, the peninsula on the Black Sea is no longer attached to the mainland are high. At least according to what he said Nicolai Kulbida, head of the Center hydrometric of Ukraine. Because of global warming and rising sea levels would become an island in the Crimea. A rise of about 50 cm of the level of the Black Sea lead to the division of the peninsula from the mainland.

It therefore seems increasingly clear that the end face of the Kyoto Protocol two years after its expiry. The visions of those who remain strongly opposed (China and most developing countries) intends to maintain with the amendments prepared by the Working AGW-KP and the definition of new commitments, and who (most of the industrialized countries including the EU), however, would like this in the context in the wider group treated as finalized by the AGW-LCA in terms of location and short-term objectives in the broader context of the path and long-term goals.
With regard to the objectives of short and long term, it should be noted that most industrialized countries (including EU) and emerging developing countries (including China), have repeatedly stated their positions, including same declaration of other previous sessions: the willingness to take on more ambitious commitments, or very ambitious, provided others do the same thing. A statement that, in practice, it means that nobody will do anything if others do not have something done before, and that inevitably leads to prolong a stalemate, waiting for someone sooner or later make the first move.

The last meeting before the meeting in Cancun has resulted in advances in minimal, if not, in some respects, that a step back. In Tianjin, China, the session was nothing short interim, if not inconclusive.

A week dedicated to the UN climate conference in Cancun, where he met the ministers of 194 countries in the world well, you are sitting around a table to find a solution to the looming problems that increasingly threaten the global climate. The central issue remains critical - once again - the post Kyoto Protocol, which on the one hand, for some parameters, is already inadequate, the other is still many difficulties to be met. It is therefore necessary that the countries participating are a balanced and unanimous agreement.
All participating governments, with the exception of Bolivia, joined in an agreement that commits them to conclude, on the occasion of the Conference of December 2011 (COP 17), an agreement to reduce global emissions by 2020 gas greenhouse between 25% and 40%.
The objective is to limit the temperature increase to not more 'than two degrees. The percentages of reduction related to the measured data for 1990 and taken as a starting point in the Kyoto Protocol.
We must say that this arrangement is less than the electoral promises of a politician. None of the key problems that have so far prevented the conclusion of an effective climate agreement has been resolved. There is no agreement on how the responsibility for reducing global emissions will be distributed among the different countries. There is no agreement on the actual level of reduction, since between 25% and 40% running 15 percentage points that make up a huge amount in terms of effects on temperatures. There is no agreement on the binding nature of any future reduction commitments and national for the time being left to the mutability of the good will of the States, and really do not understand how, in a year, these governments will be able to make ends meet individual percentages.
Consider the total inadequacy of the reference to 1990 data to determine the percentages: data older than 20 years, exceeded the economic revolutions that blew up the emissions of countries like China and India.
Consider also the inadequacy of the percentage of reduction (from 25% to 40%) with the objective of containing two degrees higher temperatures can be reached only with the reduction percentages double those ventilated with the understanding reached yesterday.
The agreement also provides for investment in forest protection and transfer of technologies with low environmental impact of so-called emerging markets, investments in the first year of the future agreement are estimated at 10 billion € and then should gradually grow up to $ 100 billion in 2020. But the agreement does not specify which countries should bear the costs of investment and which will benefit.

The agreement in Cancun is thus an agreement without any obligations to anyone, and like all the agreements that do not include binding commitments, has the value of a simple promise that the summit next year we'll see very difficult to turn into a real and effective agreement.
Cancun had been opened without any special expectations and ended with a masterpiece of hypocrisy.

Governments around the world have agreed on a package of decisions that will form the basis for support for further negotiations over the next year with the aim of achieving a final result at the next Climate Conference (COP17) in Durban, in November-December 2011.

2011 - UN climate alarm
"The disasters will increase"
The new task force's report: Floods and storms more violent. Extreme events are bound to increase. The IPCC experts: hot and rainy tropical will become the norm in Europe.
So writes Anthony Cianciullo: "Rome, Cinque Terre, Genoa, Naples. Here it is, concentrated in a few days, the anticipation of the weather to come. The anger of the wind that sweeps away everything, the walls of water that turn into water bombs, lightning storms that fill the sky phenomena that we call extreme because until recently represented the known limits of the horizon, now repeat with often devastating. Tomorrow could become routine. The alarm is the fifth report on climate change, the IPCC, a panel of more than 2 000 scientists set up by the United Nations is developing. In Kampala, Uganda, November 14 to 19 came together experts from extreme events and their analysis (Special Report on Managing the Risk of Extreme Events and Disasters) shows a dramatic picture of the climate chaos produced by the use of coal and oil and deforestation: it is "virtually certain", say the experts, which will increase the waves of cold and extreme heat, floods, tropical cyclones and extratropical. And to pay the price will be higher in the tropics and the arctic, temperate areas, but also closer to the heating band.
The numbers of climate scientists point out that the 2010 and 2011 were years that have accelerated the growth trend of climate disasters: global temperatures have set a new record, waves of fire have crippled Russia, floods have killed 2 records thousand people in Pakistan and upset India, a dust storm hit Beijing and has stifled 250 million people, Bangkok is done under water, drought and famine ravaging the Horn of Africa has followed Hurricane Irene a route crazy coming to shake New York City, Genoa had one of the most violent floods in its history, the Cinque Terre have been swept away by the mud, Messina and its province recorded disastrous floods.
According to the IPCC increased energy involved in the atmosphere produced by the growth of greenhouse emissions will aggravate these problems. In the absence of a halt to fossil fuels and deforestation, the waves of heat which in 2003 was 70 000 additional deaths in Europe will become more frequent by 2050 the highest temperature will be at least 3 degrees higher than the maximum temperature of the century last year and by 2010 more than 5 degrees; arid and semi-arid areas in Africa will expand by at least 5-8 per cent, you will lose up to 80 percent of the Amazon rain forest, the taiga of China, the Siberian tundra and tundra Canada will be seriously affected, and the North Pole will soon become navigable in the summer, the world's population subjected to increasing water stress will increase from one billion to 3 billion today.

"The devastating scene indicated by the IPCC can still be avoided if you link a decision on renewable energy and energy efficiency," says Vincent Ferrara, climatologist Enea. "It is a passage complex but can be started immediately at no cost: it would be enough to close the faucet of incentives that, globally, financed with about $ 400 billion a year fossil fuels that undermine the stability of climate and use these funds to revitalize clean energy. "

"We have no choice: the fact that in the Po valley rains and floods have decreased overall increase shows unequivocally that the Italian climate is tropical conditions," adds Joseph Onufrio, director of Greenpeace. "We can not just count the victims of climate chaos without reacting."
Heavier rainfall, fierce storms and drought intensifies, will hit the world in the coming decades. Experts say that will increase the waves of cold and extreme heat, floods, tropical cyclones and extratropical. To pay the price will be higher in the tropics and the arctic, temperate areas, but also closer to the heating band.
According to the 'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of climate scientists around the world convened by the United Nations, from sea level rise will increase the vulnerability of coastal areas, and the rise of "extreme weather events" will sweep national economies and destroy the lives of millions of people. Scientists have warned of these effects for years, and the report of 18.11.2011 in Kampala - the "special report on extreme weather" compiled by more than two years from 220 scientists - is the first comprehensive review of scientific knowledge, in an attempt to produce a final decision. The report contains warnings for the rapidly developing countries in particular, are likely to be most affected by geographical factors, not least because they are less prepared for extreme weather conditions and have less capacity for economic recovery than developed nations. The developed world will not remain unscathed - the phenomena of more intense rainfall, heat waves and droughts are all likely to leave their mark more and more disastrous.
Chris Field, co-chair of the IPCC working group that produced the report, said that "the message is clear - Extreme weather events are increasingly likely. There are clear and solid evidence of this. We also know much more about the causes of the losses from disasters. "
He urged governments to take note that "many of the economic and human impacts of disasters can be avoided if the requested action is taken promptly: we are losing too many lives and too many economic activities in disasters."
The report was timed just before crucial talks that took place at the end of the month of November 2011 in Durban, South Africa, where governments of the world could produce a new global agreement to combat emissions of greenhouse gases and changes in climate. The good news is that there is a general recognition of the need for a legally binding agreement, but the bad news is that no legally binding agreement was made in Durban.
Chief climate in Europe, Connie Hedegaard, said the report should spur governments to act and that the world is only five years to take the necessary measures to cut emissions to avoid catastrophic global warming. He said. "It's frustrating to see that some governments show the political will to act, in the light of the facts is even more convincing that the matter should be brought to the attention of governments that are in favor of postponing decisions: how long you can defend ''This inaction?
Bob Ward, director of communications at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics, said that the scientific report is clear: "experts of the latest available scientific data clearly show that climate change is already having an impact in many parts of world with special reference to frequency and location of extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts and floods. These trends have been identified over the past decades, when the increase in global average temperature was only a few tenths of a degree Celsius .
The report shows that if we do not stop the current skyrocketing levels of greenhouse gases, global warming will exacerbate the dramatic changes in climate extremes that could overwhelm any attempt that might do to the human populations adapt to their impacts.

The summary report has also produced warnings that rifletteno the difficulty of linking specific extreme weather events to anthropogenic attributing economic losses, such as damage from storms and floods, to other factors involved such as urbanization and the growing wealth as multipliers of losses are greater today than ever before.
This point is likely to become particularly controversial in the future, as governments in industrialized countries are called upon to provide funding for the world to help poor people adapt to the effects of climate change.
The scientists said they were confident that a warmer climate results in an increased frequency of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, expressing a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America, where hurricanes do not normally occur . There was a "pole shift" in the model of the storms, which means that storms are more likely to hit areas like New York and the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Scientific models also show that it is very likely, a term that means, in slang IPCC, from 90% to 100% probability that the length, frequency and intensity of heat or heat waves will increase in most areas of the ground. This means that the hot days of registration, which previously could be expected once in twenty years, are now probably every two years. This could have a serious impact on the elderly and very young, in particular, who are more vulnerable to temperature changes.
The report said: "It 'likely that the frequency of heavy rainfall or percentage of total precipitation will increase in the 21 st century in many areas of the globe. This is particularly true in high latitudes and tropical regions, and, in winter, in northern mid-latitudes, heavy rains associated with tropical cyclones are likely to increase with continued warming. This means that storms that could be expected once in twenty years will become a normal occurrence in five years. Scientists are hesitant to translate this into specific warnings about the frequency of floods and floods, because these may be aggravated by local factors such as topography, but has clearly confirmed that the flooding, mudslides and landslides are associated with heavy rain interspersed with dry periods that, in the 21 st century, certain seasons and areas, because of reduced rainfall and / or increased evapotranspiration will tend to intensify. They identified the most vulnerable areas of southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Central Europe, North America, Central America and Mexico, north-east Brazil, and southern Africa.
Require rapid action by governments meeting in Durban, South Africa, to continue negotiations on a global agreement to tackle climate change. Tim Gore, climate change adviser for Oxfam, said:. "This is a wake-up call to world leaders to act now on climate change to save lives and money. The link between climate change and increased frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events is becoming clearer, and are poorest and most vulnerable people in the world who are affected. Floods and droughts, like those that have recently hit the East Asia and the Horn of Africa can destroy entire harvests, contributing to soaring food prices leading to the poor hunger. "He added:" Estimates suggest that every dollar invested in adaptation to climate change could save $ 60 in damages. Governments must find the money to invest now, and avoid much higher costs of clean-up and lives lost as a result .. "
Cancun, there is agreement on greenhouse gases. The disaster of Copenhagen is behind
At the top wins the realpolitik: openings for an agreement in 2011 after the sinking of a year ago. But nothing is binding.
Wrote Roberto Giovannini sent in Cancun.
"It 'a classic case of interpretation of the glass. The glass is half full agreement in Cancun? And 'half empty? If we observe it from the point of view of science, physics, chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, there are many doubts in the papers agreed by 193 countries in the world - and given legitimacy by the dell'ecocidio only irreducible , negotiator of Bolivia Pablo Solon - there is virtually nothing about the practical and binding give a hand to the planet Earth. The terms of the problem from that point of view, are clear. Already, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere affects the 390 parts per million (440 equivalent considering other greenhouse gases), we should stop at 350 ppm to be safe. That is not to exceed 1.5 degree increase in global temperature, which is considered the threshold to be met to avoid disasters. To do that we should touch the peak of emissions in 2015, and then descend quickly. We succeed only if a miracle happens, and according to many scientists have now lost even 2 degrees.
Or we can be more realistic. And see the solid part of our glass. Nobody, not even the wildest optimists hoped that Cancun could have a legally binding global agreement. China, U.S., India, Russia, Japan, European Union started from the starting positions and needs that - quite simply - they were absolutely irreconcilable.
The miracle of Cancun - the Mexican miracle, because all the credit belongs to the Mexican Presidency Patricia Espinosa Cantellano - has managed to put behind Copenhagen, and have opened a door to a comprehensive agreement in 2011 in Durban, restoring the multilateral path in the UN auspices. A masterful diplomatic coup, which circumvented the vetoes with pragmatism and skill, and has established certain strongholds (in principle and substance, such as REDD) key. In Copenhagen, it is now clear to all, is the true historic opportunity was lost. Cancun has put the process on track, and is a good thing. But the planet is not safe. The physics and chemistry do not take account of diplomacy. "

Durban-saving global climate agreement, adoption by 2015. 
Clini, "exceeded the Kyoto»
At the 17th UN Climate Conference in Durban was an agreement reached at the last minute on the roadmap to reach a global treaty on climate change by 2015, which will come into force in 2020. After a marathon 13 days of negotiations in the early hours of Sunday came the understanding that for the first time requires all polluters to undertake major initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases. The President of the Conference, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane: "We made history '
The agreement will begin work as early as 2012. For the global agreement we will start working as early as next year. For this he was appointed an ad hoc working group under the 'platform of Durban. " The document, which instructs the working group to define the global agreement by 2015 underlines the urgency of stepping up and raising the level of reduction. The legal form of the agreement will be discussed further. As for the Kyoto2 after 2012, substantially affect Europe and a few other industrialized countries, as Japan, Russia and Canada have long since announced their no to the second period of the Protocol. The Kyoto2 serves as a bridge to the global agreement.
Green light for the work of the Green Fund. In the "Durban package" approved by the Conference, including the go-ahead operation of the Green Fund to help developing countries to support action against global warming. It's $ 100 billion in 2020.
The road map with the global agreement and the 'bridge Kyoto2 has as main goal to bring in the common struggle against climate change the new economies such as China, Brazil and India. The game is also important in the United States who have not ratified the Kyoto first period.
The EU, a historic turning point. "The agreement on the roadmap for the climate is a historic turning point." The Commission and EU Council wrote in a joint statement. "The European Union's strategy has worked," said Commissioner for the Environment, Connie Hedegaard, noting that "many believed that Durban could not help but to implement the decisions of the Copenhagen and Cancun, but Europe wanted got more ambitious and more. " "Kyoto - added Hedegaard - divided the world into two categories, we will now have a system that reflects the reality of the world IUN mutually interdependent." "With the agreement on the 'road map towards a legal framework from 2015 will involve all countries in combating climate change - said Hedegaard - The European Union has achieved its key objective in the Durban conference." Enthusiastic also the commentary by Marcin KOROLEC, environment minister of Poland, the country holding the rotating presidency of the Union: "This is a time comparable to or even higher than the success of Cop1 in 1995 when, with the Berlin Mandate, it came to the only legally binding agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol. "
Exceeded the limits of Kyoto. "We came out of" shadow "of Copenhagen. The agreement exceeds the limits of the Kyoto Protocol and has a global dimension, "offering to Europe, especially Italy, a chance to be the" platform "for development with major emerging economies: Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. He said "hot" environment minister Corrado Clini, commenting on the results achieved in Durban.
Legambiente, an important step. "In Durban after long and difficult negotiations has managed to avoid bankruptcy and to renew the Kyoto Protocol as a transition towards a new global agreement, which will involve the major economies of the world beyond the current conflict between industrialized and developing ". You said in a statement delal Legambiente, who continued: "The Platform of Durban calls for the signing of a new global agreement by 2015 and its implementation from 2020. This outcome is not obvious since the stonewalling of the United States, supported by Canada Australia and New Zealand with Russia and Japan to give them a strong hand. But thanks to the role of Europe - finally convinced even with the support of our government - it was possible to create a coalition of the willing among industrialized countries and emerging developing countries are able to push India and China to abandon the game of vetoes and force opposing the United States to approve a mandate to conclude a global agreement to have the Kyoto Protocol as a lintel. " (S. Nat.)

Therefore the only concrete hope in order to found, to defend and to protect the Ecologic Democracy remains the Constitutional World Charter, otherwise we will bury not only our mother Earth but all our illusions, too.

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