Bad weather and damage to the fields of northern Sardinia.
According to Coldiretti, in just one day, as many as 20 extreme events hit Italy, including storms, tornadoes, hail storms, wind storms and water bombs, including thunderstorms that hit the island.
“The hardest hit is the Liguria Region , where almost all the storms that hit from Lombardy to Piedmont, from Lazio to Campania, from Sicily to Sardinia were concentrated. An abrupt arrival of autumn that devastated fields, pastures, stables and agricultural vehicles as well as blocking roads and causing landslides and landslides in the countryside ”, explained the trade association.
Climate change with increasingly intense and frequent rainfall is affecting a territory made more fragile by overbuilding and abandonment, with the result that the Italian municipalities have risen to 7252, or 91.3% of the total, which are risk of landslides and / or floods but the percentage rises to 100% precisely in Liguria, according to the elaborations carried out by Coldiretti on Ispra data.
"We are facing the consequences of climate change also in Italy where the exceptional nature of atmospheric events is now the norm, with a tendency to tropicalization that manifests itself with larger hail, a higher frequency of violent events, seasonal delays, precipitation short and intense and the rapid transition from the sun to bad weather, which also compromise crops in the fields with estimated costs that have already exceeded two billion this year between losses in national agricultural production and damage to structures and infrastructures in the countryside. the damage caused by climate change requires structural interventions and risk management tools that are increasingly advanced, effective and with less bureaucracy, but above all a commitment to curb climate change ”, the organization continues to know.
(Unioneonline / F)
