Climatologist Filippo Giorgi , Director of the ICTP Earth Sciences Section (Centre for Theoretical Physics in Miramar) and member of the IPCC, of the UN panel on climate change, with which he won the Nobel Prize for peace in 2007 , predicted months in in advance: «There is no going back. But there is still time - he appealed - to manage the inevitable and avoid the unmanageable." This year, when El Niño (warming of the waters of the Pacific Ocean) is in a positive phase, and after a record February, the record could be broken again. "The year 2024 - says Giorgi - could be the warmest year ever, or the second warmest together with 2023. Time is running out: we need immediate and large-scale reductions in fossil fuel emissions".

As spring approaches, the storm warning returns: will we have to learn to live with it?

"It is very likely. I am most concerned about the temperature of the sea. Let's go back to the storm Vaia in 2018: an essential element for the development of the cyclone was precisely the fact that in the previous months the waters of the Mediterranean Sea were "very warm". And the warmer it is, the more water evaporates: the air becomes moist and then ventilates in very strong storms. I therefore expect even more intense and increasingly frequent storms." (Filippo Giorgi, ICTP Earth Sciences Section Director, more at ilpiccolo.gelocal)