The COP 27 climate change summit opens in the warmest year ever in Italy, with a temperature in the first ten months of 2022 even higher by +1.07 degrees than the historical average, but there is also reduced rainfall of over 1/3. This is what emerges from the analysis of Coldiretti on the occasion of COP 27 in Egypt on the basis of ISAC CNR data, which has been carrying out surveys in Italy since 1800. The climate anomaly compared to the average was more evident in the north (+1.41 degrees) than in the center (+1.01 degrees) and south (+0.85 degrees) confirming the climate changes in progress. The increase in temperatures was accompanied by the explosion of extreme events in 2022 with an average of over 9 per day on the Peninsula among droughts, water bombs, thunderstorms, windstorms, whirlwinds and violent hailstorms, according to Coldiretti calculations based on ESWD data, which caused damage to national agriculture for a value that already exceeds 6 billion euros since the beginning of the year, equal to 10% of national production. For Coldiretti, "The overheating trend is therefore clear in Italy, where the ranking of the hottest years in the last two centuries is concentrated in the last decade and includes, respectively, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2019 and 2020. Climate change has been accompanied by a clear trend towards tropicalisation that – continues Coldiretti – manifests itself with a higher frequency of violent events, seasonal delays, short and intense rainfall and the rapid transition from the sun to bad weather, with significant temperature changes.
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