Responding to the massive terror propaganda, boosted by statements from Italian State President Sergio Mattarella against “climate deniers,” and by Pope Francis on the need for accelerating energy transition, and blaming human activity for the “unprecedented” extreme weather with storms in northern Italy, and high temperatures in southern Italy (and southern Europe), the Italian Clintel group issued a statement yesterday rebuking such a terror campaign and characterizing climate policies as destructive.
The statement is signed by Uberto Crescenti, Professor Emeritus of Applied Geology, University of Chieti-Pescara (former Rector and President of the Italian Geological Society), President of Clintel-Italy; and by Alberto Prestininzi, Professor of Applied Geology (formerly at La Sapienza University of Rome) and Ambassador for Italy of the Clintel International Foundation. Professor Prestininzi was an acclaimed speaker at the July 8-9 Schiller Institute conference in Strasbourg.
Clintel Italy expresses “concern about the alarm that the media are sounding regarding a climate emergency of allegedly anthropogenic origin. This unwarranted alarm is polluting consciences, including of policy makers at high levels, a circumstance that causes them to address problems of real risk, not with prevention, but with measures that, in fact, do not even address the problems.
“The climate emergency that generates panic and worries mostly pertains to the fact that the average global temperature would be about 1° [Celsius] higher than it was more than a century ago. To this phenomenon, which is natural, and not necessarily unpleasant, are being attributed, without any scientific reason, all the severe weather events and, with them, all the damage that until the 1980s was framed in the prevention activities and studied through risk analysis, where human vulnerability was the essential element. For example, they attribute deaths from heat waves, drought phenomena, flooding phenomena, and more, to this degree of temperature above the value of more than a century ago.
