(ANSA) - ROME, 19 AGO - Extreme weather events linked to the
climate crisis have surged in Italy, with 132 in the last six
months, the highest average figure in the last decade,
environmental group Legambiente said Friday. It said "Italy is
ever more subject to extreme climate events" because of
human-caused climate change. Legambiente said in its latest
Climate City Observatory report that from 2010 up to July 2022
there had been 1,318 extreme weather events in Italy. It said
the most significant impacts had been in 710 Italian
municipalities. In these years, it said, there had been 516
floodings due to intense rain, 367 cases of damage cause by
tornadoes, 157 cases of damage caused by rain to infrastructure,
123 cases of rivers breaking their banks with consequent damage
to the countryside and crops, 63 cases of hail damage, 55 cases
of prolonged drought, 55 landslides after intense rain, 22 cases
of damage to the historic heritage, and 17 cases of extreme
temperatures in cities or in wider heat waves. It said the
climate crisis was being "incomprehensibly under-estimated" in
the current campaign for the September 25 general election in
Italy. In 2022, extreme climate events had reached the level of
"code red", it said. "Those who are bidding to govern the
country for the next five years should explain what solutions
they want to implement to tackle the climate crisis, one of the
principal planetary emergencies that is risking bringing the
entire planet to its knees". Thursday saw a wave of storms in
northern Italy that killed two people in Tuscany. (ANSA).
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