Climate Crisis and the Post-Normal Science perspective
Climate science has made significant progress in recent years in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change. However, despite this progress, there are still significant limitations to what can be known and accomplished through the scientific method alone. In order to overcome these limitations, it is necessary to turn to other disciplines, such as […]
The December Drought Bulletin by Drought Observatory
The year 2022 turned out to be a year of climatic extremes. It was amongst the hottest, probably the hottest year for the central-western European and central Mediterranean countries: nine out of twelve months recorded positive anomalies, and the summer was characterized by extremes including an intense heatwave, drought, record temperatures, extreme heat stress and […]
Cop27 Outcomes: failure or progress?
What are the key outcomes of the COP27? UN Secretary-General Guterres’ own words are very clear about the results of this COP27. “We need all hands on deck for faster, bolder climate action. A window of opportunity remains open, but only a narrow shaft of light remains… We are getting dangerously close to the point […]
CNR IBE Seminar: Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting
CNR-IBE will hold the Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting Seminar on the 12th of December 2022 at Area della Ricerca in Florence. In the meeting researchers and experts will take part to discuss the topic from different points of view: how to manage flood risk assessment when information available is scarce, which are the tools […]
Some Don’t Like It Hot
November 2022 has just started, and the high temperatures of October are just another record-shattering event after a hot and dry summer. Is it good news?
Learning Drought Basics
During the summer of 2022, we experienced extreme temperatures and water shortages. A droughty summer affected not only Italy but also the 64% of EUROPEAN UNION, as shown in the map by Copernicus Global Drought Monitoring. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Emergency Management Service According to the EU’s environmental programme Copernicus, the 2022 drought may […]
Italy and Portugal discuss about drought
On 28 September 2022 took place the webinar “Drought: Climate Change and Water Management” organised by the Italian Embassy in Lisbon in collaboration with the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Portugal and the Italian Trade Agency – ICE, in the framework of the Festival Sviluppo Sostenibile 2022 (2022 Festival for Sustainable Development). The meeting focused […]
Flooding Marche 2022: the impact of an extreme event
The extreme event that struck the Marche region on the 15–16 September 2022, once again re-proposes the themes of vulnerability, prevention, mitigation and adaptation. We know that specific actions to be put in place could reduce the impact of increasingly frequent phenomena. Then what is politics doing? What is science doing? Because to find solutions […]
Drought Observatory: August Bulletin
On 7 September, the CNR-IBE Drought Observatory published the monthly bulletin illustrating the Italian drought situation in August. The month just ended is one characterised by instability and thunderstorms. But, this year the events were decidedly more intense, also due to an above-average temperature, with values well exceeding 30°C for several months. The thunderstorm phenomena […]
EMS 2022: Effective Communication of Agrometeorological Services
The European Meteorological Society Annual Conference (EMS2022) is taking place from 4 to 9 September 2022 at the Poppelsdorf Campus of the University of Bonn. As a side event, the workshop on Effective communication of agrometeorological services is scheduled as a full-day event for today Wednesday 7 September 2022. The aim of this workshop is […]
