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Ripa di Meana: “Su clima, energia e salvezza della Terra stanno sbagliando”

The year ends with the expected failure of the climate summit in Copenhagen, the sum of all errors on climate and the environment according to Carlo Ripa di Meana, Chairman of the National Landscape former European Commissioner for the Environment and president of Italy Nostra. On the subject of this blog host soon other voices.
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"The Climate Conference in Copenhagen wanted to save from global warming polar bears white, and is instead managed to get humans in Denmark and hooded blacks, the black bloc, which smash the historic cities, thus concluding with a spectacular failure . It was a conference game badly prepared with rhetorical and theatrical attitudes and, above all, scientifically based issue and handled, put on trial before the work with data emerging from the scandal of the University of climate-gate ' East Anglia, forgery confirmed during the work when Al Gore, in announcing the advanced thawing North Pole, he cited a source within a few hours has denied the former U.S. vice-president than he had given. The management of the conference by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the same Al Gore, Prince Charles and the Adviser to the Prime Minister Brown, Nicholas Stern, was demagogic and reckless. A strong contribution in this direction came catastrophic and hysterical for months and months of President Barack Obama. So it happened that a European capital was well organized on its knees for twelve long days ending with a flop planetarium.
However, it is preferable to a failure to a poor compromise. Obama's words have often done miracles but I think his ability to illusionism climate is declining: in case global warming, in fact, the President has not had its Senate, and then at the end of the recitation of Hillary Clinton has announced one hundred billion dollars to the poorest countries to reduce their emissions. This decision has no other firm and binding commitments of the United States is still enrolled in the political consciousness of the gifts that try to save, in this case, to conceal the lack of other commitments in the USA. The problem is not solved some way. It is a fact CO2 emissions from emerging countries to constitute a major problem. If you want to reduce the anthropogenic pollution of the planet must begin by doing in the U.S., China and, subsequently, in India, in Messico, in Brasile.
La Conferenza ha svelato molte cose importanti di cui si dovrà tener conto. Prima di tutto è emerso che non è all’ordine del giorno la fine della civiltà industriale basata sul carbone, che include la siderurgia, la metalmeccanica, la petrolchimica. La società contemporanea carbon-free non è pronta. Il potere politico, è un’altra constatazione dopo la Conferenza di Copenhagen, non ha imboccato la strada del nucleare che è il modo diretto, piaccia o no, per ridurre il CO2. Eloquente a tale proposito il silenzio della grande Russia nucleare. Si è inoltre visto che la green industry a oggi è molto esile: lo constatiamo con una punta di ironia proprio nel momento in cui we propose, with incorrigible rhetoric, a new generation of bicycles with pedal assistance, developed by an Italian in the U.S.. It must be recognized by observers honest and realistic that you do not live to digital networks intelligent, smart grid, also expensive, which should replace all elettrocondotti, energy grids, etc.. . Enel has not enough that the technology to close abandoned mines in the excess CO2 to speak of a significant green Italian industry.
The Copenhagen Conference is founded on expectations developed abnormally in public opinion, on the basis of a bad culture and scientific data manipulated to sculpt in bronze that man is altering il clima producendo il riscaldamento globale, e che a tal fine occorrono misure autoritarie e spese sovrumane per evitare l’Apocalisse, si attendevano la palingenesi onusiana. Al Gore e Ban Ki-moon hanno già proposto di fare un nuovo summit a fine 2010 in Messico, preceduto da un incontro preparatorio a Bonn verso la metà del 2010. Anche lì, a Bonn e poi in Messico, si rischia di non concludere alcunché di efficace e reale, se non verrà rimossa la premessa, oggi ancora indiscutibile, che è alla base della teoria del global warming: è l’uomo che governa il clima e che solo lo può modificare. Se si vuol fare davvero qualcosa per sbloccare lo stallo in cui la grande impostura climatica ha paralizzato le Nazioni Unite, as we saw in Copenhagen when tens of thousands of young people came from all over the world have experienced the frustration of defeat, and uselessness of repeated clashes with the police according to the plan of the black bloc, it must, I believe, make a thorough scientific study of problem, without surrender to the apocalyptic profession. We really need first of all good science and not whining, too violent, as in Copenhagen, on the economic injustice as a scapegoat for all problems. In this picture made of hard reality, Europe needs to rethink who to trust: it can not continue to put in the hands of apocalyptic serrano lobby Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with the mature Crown Prince, the enarchi in Paris, Legambiente, Greenpeace and Rifkin in Rome. So it only creates frustration, temporary rhetoric and nothing.
In Italy, for example, a different opinion and there was strengthened in 2009, but many do not know for silence, not innocent, of a part of Journal Communications. Words of truth, however, wrote the paper and in particular Liberal. The analysis of the Center Bruno Leoni, have offered a consistent and accurate argument against extreme scenarios of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). There are eminent scientists and great communicators, as Antonino Zichichi, Franco Prodi, Franco Battaglia, Folco Quilici, who they also said and written words weighed and authoritative. Even in politics there have been skeptical positions and proposals. Skeptical of the opinions adopted by a majority of doomsday predictions by the IPCC and soaked, submerged cities, the geographic poles, liquefied, the end of the ecosystem. Just think of the area, very critical, authoritatively taken by the President of the Senate Environment Committee, Antonio d'Ali. The same Italian government has appeared among the least dogmatic and demagogic EU: I can remember some objections earlier in the year 2009 came from Environment Minister Prestigiacomo and by the same Prime Minister Berlusconi. Despite this, however, Italy Copenhagen has not played any role. Not weighed.
I remember, then, that on wind energy (the paper preferred by Italian lobby for renewable energy) is a scandal supra. Just read the Herald Tribune U.S. Monday, December 14, where it is said in the first page that comes in the wake of renewable fraud. And mentioning the countries which took place before these illegal elsewhere: Italy leads the group that includes Spain and Portugal.
We can not continue along the wrong track. We will break your head. Point out that the Czech President Vaclav Klaus has clearly set the problem before us, among the largest of the future, energy and climate. That opinion deserves to be studied.
Italy should prepare for a season of investigation of scientific truth confronting the great deception that has so far dominated the Journal. From Italy should be a truthful assessment of the potential of the green economy, which currently are not those of his supposed chimeric "sweeping expansion". Before Copenhagen some of us wanted to organize in Italy, Volterra, a meeting that would put the question of future energy and climate of the planet in a different way. Yes, we wanted to invite Vaclav Klaus, politicians open and problematic, as is Ali, Casini, Bondi and Granata, many great scientists and those who do not want to rely on an international level only at terrorizing vulgate also promoted by economic interests are not innocent of the lobby. That Congress would have to reopen the preliminary scientific IPCC context, where there are errors. Has anyone thought that we would be put into question the scientific manipulation of the summit on climate change, ideologically and politically supported without reservation by a majority of the participating countries. Facts have proved that we were right to organize that conference, although it is very tiring and stressful to call an international meeting in contrast, free, independent, rational. I remain of the opinion that what we have well done will be done in view of the two stages of Bonn and Mexico, after Copenhagen. The great deception is visible to the naked eye. The stall also. But the many prophets of the apocalypse, those naive and those of business, tried again. It would be good that this time they were bent by the knowledge and rationality.
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Carlo Ripa di Meana, a member of Our Italy, Chairman of the National Landscape
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A document unconventional and common sense, this Liberal Ecology that largely could share, if there were no citations or undeserved praise for some scientists, and political advisers. And why, Then, look for characters from the proscenium? Science is not anonymous enough? (NV)

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T’amo, o pio bove, ma consumi cereals and pulses, and emit too much methane

Some are still considered an "urban legend" that the largest share of pollution from so-called "greenhouse gases, including methane CH4 (about 20 times more polluting 'carbon dioxide CO2), is attributable to agricultural activities and livestock and manure management. Well, the tables given here, from other sources, confirm this fully, even compared to other pollutants such as waste treatment, transportation and food production, rice etc.. .
Among the highly agricultural sources the first is the pollutant emission of methane gas for enteric fermentation, ie intestinal, cattle, goats and sheep, bred by the modern man. Besides high cost, including nutrition: sorghum, soybeans and other legumes and cereals - all possible direct food for man, a very high energy density and energy - are wasted on food animals for meat or dairy foods by low energy density, but high value added economy.
Here are two of the many tables that show how much volcanic activity - do not laugh - intestinal gas methane CH4 farm animals (cattle, sheep, goats, etc.). The first was that I reworked by a special agricultural publication of the Government of the United States (cited in the table), the second is from study Japanese Ogino et al. About Animal Science Journal. But one of my article on another blog discusses various aspects of ecological and economic animal husbandry. m

In the U.S. government can see very well that the animal husbandry (183 to 190) is responsible for the emission of almost all the methane released into the United States. The graph confirms that the Japanese leadership, which is an index of the rest spread throughout the world, comparable with emissions from production and transportation di alimenti (feed) e dal trattamento dei rifiuti (waste), che per lo più producono non metano ma anidride carbonica CO2 e ossido nitroso N2O.
La situazione, quindi, è davvero incresciosa, tanto più perché legata ad un'attività non davvero essenziale per la vita umana, tesa com'è a produrre solo carne e latticini, che depaupera i raccolti di granaglie e legumi di tutto il Mondo.
Ed ecco, perciò, gli scienziati farsi in quattro per cercare qualche soluzione addomesticata che salvi - è il caso di dirlo - capra e cavoli, senza modificare il modello di sviluppo alimentare oggi imposto come "moderno". Anziché pensare a rieducare la gente a consumare la metà della metà, almeno, dell’inutile too fat meat and cheese, plus two epidemiologically linked to deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer, which is the illogical human intelligence? Study and redesigned, is that garlic, well known anti-bacterial, is a bete noire for colon bacteria responsible for fermentation that produce methane gas. So: add garlic in abundance to feed the animals and, miracle, emissions decreased by 50%, as shown in a study English.

Natural: the British garlic is a food for animals or, worse, by the French, Russians and Italians. Shame it does not realize that milk purchase the taste of garlic, which is why breastfeeding mothers are requested not to eat it, if you do not want to sicken and to fast on the infant, still unsuitable for adult tastes. Without these drawbacks is the oregano instead, which was successfully tested (reduces methane by 40% and even increases the production of milk) in a study American. Meanwhile
this blog comes to the aid of the pious ox, forced by unwise farming to produce tens of liters per capita per day of methane CH4 flatulence and manure unstoppable lava, which in turn attacked by bacterial fermentation produces methane. Definitely increasing hunger in the world, and perhaps the temperature media on Earth.
We would like to help him escape and gain freedom, the pious ox, pending that they do not play more and dismantle at least two-thirds of the farms. So, this blog offers an alternative menu and politically correct, tasty, healthy and not at all generator CH4, or indirectly, either directly, despite the urban legends (here again) that generalize the problems of those who never eats vegetables or is mentally ill spastic colitis: a dish of chickpeas with garlic croutons. Two food so good, why do we waste it on animals?

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for once agree with the Vatican: the ignorance of the Bel Paese Italian

will not be a famous head in agreement, but the site Affairs Italians, like other blogs and sites on the web, it is not made worse and wrote the Corriere della Sera, a former "big day", or the Republic, which has never been great but now fallen to tabloid Popular full of advertisements, tv, football, gossip political, crime, scandals, and errors of Italian titles wrong. But the interview with a former director of the museums of Florence, then Minister of Culture and now director of the Vatican Museums, is one of those who leave their mark. Only provincialism snob el ' inadequacy of the "Italian journalists, mostly recommended , a cui fa comodo considerarsi "giornalisti che fanno opinione", lo ha fatto passare sotto silenzio.
E’ la prima volta che una dichiarazione , una posizione proveniente dal Vaticano, ci trova d’accordo. Paolucci spara duramente contro l’ottusità degli Italiani e, lo si arguisce, anche della classe politica che dovrebbe governarli ed educarli, ma che – aggiungiamo noi – è spesso peggiore del peggiore popolino. Avete ascoltato a Radio Radicale i discorsi dal vivo di deputati o senatori? In alcuni casi fanno rabbrividire dalla vergogna: parlano e ragionano molto meglio certi baristi e meccanici di nostra conoscenza.
Paolucci expertly connects the crisis influx of museums in the decay of the Italian countryside, which ultimately is the image in the world, the picture postcard that would encourage tourists to "visit Italy" and then "even "its museums. Reasoning flawless, because those who move from Arkansas or Japan does not think instinctively in Italian museums, but in Italy itself, indeed, a certain image of Italy that has been passed down from great travelers nineteenth century. But
, Italy, now it's ugly, more ugly, but beautiful country . Why tourists should run? The land is devastated as in a few areas in Europe. Squalid suburbs? Sure, but the suburbs in Italy starting from the old town. They are often ugly and can bring down the "peripheries" built in the twentieth century. Rome, for one thing, the city is ugly, ugly. As soon as you exit from the Aurelian walls, for example from Porta del Popolo, or from Porta Pia and Porta Capena or Porta San Pancrazio. One can enjoy the scenic Valadier's Piazza del Popolo , walks through the door and immediately immersed in ugliness Piazzale Flaminio horror. Possible that no political or administrator noticing?
But above se torniamo in treno dal Nord Europa, stringe il cuore nel vedere le campagne italiane. Come i dolci declivi, i poggi meravigliosi e i filari di alberi sono maltrattati dagli unici frequentatori e padroni della campagna: i contadini.
Abbiamo in Italia una natura addomesticata ( ché tale è la campagna) governata da agricoltori per bisogno o fatalità, spesso senza alcuna passione, rozzi e ignoranti, ottusi nella loro pigrizia, incapacità e parsimonia. E non sia scusa la passata o presente povertà. Quando si trattava non di acquistare materiali edilizi costosi, ma di utilizzare col proprio lavoro le ottime pietre del campo per costruire le case coloniche, come in tutti countries of Europe, the average Italian peasant, laziness and lack of role models, pulled up as best of the walls worthy of a stable, not a house. What's the difference with the ancestors Etruscans and Romans, whose homes, even agricultural ones, aroused the wonder of the barbarian invaders who still lived in huts of wood and unbaked clay. But now that distance with the beautiful and refined rustic houses of Great Britain, Germany, France, who also have much lower than our natural landscapes.
Italy seen from the train is all a horrible string of animals to booth made of cardboard, glass, abandoned lockers, beds and cots. In the white fields dominate everywhere, obscene, bathtubs enamel, engaged on springs for the animals. With all the stones to available.
And if you forward in the fields - a disgrace to the home of Columella, Cato and Leon Battista Alberti - there is no more noble wood, which also abounds in Italy, among the country's richest vegetation and forests. But everywhere reign supreme as in Africa, the landfills, the waste iron sheets, ondulex , asbestos, lead the squalid cement clinker from the Third World, and plastic, so plastic, in any form , texture and color.
A shame. Material degradation that hides a deeper degradation intellectual and moral, involving governments, the Parliament, the political class, the school (the ignorance of Italian teachers is unique enough to see or interview students) and families.
right, then, the director of the Vatican Museums (in ' interview on Italian affairs): even the widespread crisis in the tourism stems from ignorance of the Italians who reflects on devastation of land and environment. The same ignorance that makes even the residents prefer the obscure villages, traveling abroad (Canary Islands, Maldives, Greece, etc.) rather than beautiful in Italy, who do not know. So much so that everyone uses as a false excuse the alleged "high price" of tourism in Italy. And so they are skin and elsewhere in Greece, where he spends even more, and without the beauty, comfort and kindness that we are accustomed. ( NV)
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The crisis also affects the Vatican Museums.
THE DIRECTOR: "WE THE LANDSCAPE disgraced"
Fabio Carosi
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"Crolla demand for culture, including museums, with a strong decrease of visitors especially in southern Italy. But the major concerns are for a total bid Italian tourism because of beautiful country that no longer exists. "The faults? A ravaged environment and ignorance that leads us to go abroad civic ignoring our museums." From
comfortable chair even if delicate director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci , exclusive Affaritaliani , denounced the crisis of our national museum system, struggling with a dramatic drop in visitors. And revenue. For Professor Paolucci already superintendent of the State Museums of Florence and Minister of Culture of the Government Technical Dini, the crisis was very evident causes ranging from cement the landscape, the construction of cities with "hideous suburbs", to the lack of culture of the Italians, for passing that vice italics to cheat tourists.
Opens with data from home: "Faced with a decline of 10-12 percent reported by our Ministry, the Vatican Museums hold punch. In 2008, we closed with 4 million visitors and 444mila this year to 31 December with 4 million and 250 thousand. This means 2 million euro in revenue in less of tickets and merchandising .
For the director of the most important museum in Italy (even if protected by the walls of 'extraterritoriality ), the entire blame for the crisis Italian: "We have disgraced the landscape - he says in no uncertain terms - transforming the city into the suburbs and ugly chasing the competition with foreign countries. We must pursue a tourism that comes out of the classic" turisdotto , "that is in the pipeline They come as tucked the tursi , sent to Florence, Rome and Pompeii. We have to go to Empoli, Castelfranco Veneto, Vicenza, Belluno and then Todi and Narni . We are still the subject because there is stereotype of Roman Holiday. "
Therefore prophecy: "The decline is the fault of the Italians - says the professor - if they done as efficiently in Switzerland and services will be at first. Instead we are doomed to decline, because sooner or later the stereotype of the beautiful country end.
Paolucci concludes with a suggestion: "We need to return to Pasolini and Writings Corsairs healthily and become reactionary, convincing the people who are ignorant and that must maintain their ignorance. "

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In 2020, at a cost you crazy, if all goes well, will be 4.5% nuclear energy

AGREES BUT REALLY THE ATOM?
Emma Bonino and Elizabeth Zamparutti
Il Sole 24 Ore, 13 December 2009
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predictable polemics on nuclear sites and the short call from the government of all businesses "affected" in the field, lead us to propose some fundamental questions that had no convincing answers, along with problems remained unsolved. And lead us to do it right in a newspaper "nuclear" because the comparison is useful between those who have developed different opinions.
repeat the question that we asked in 2008: in terms of cost / benefit to our country should build nuclear plants 25/30 billion commitment over the next year to meet, well that goes from 2020 to 25% of current electricity consumption ` correspond only to about 4.5% of final energy consumption? There is no other way to reach and even exceed the same goal? A recent evaluation
Enea shows that the only technological options with net social benefits or minimum costs are those related to improving energy efficiency in industry, service industry, transport, construction and production and transmission of electricity. According to this study, the electricity sector alone, could save 73 TWh of electricity, 21.6% of final gross consumption in 2008 (337.6 TWh). This huge potential for energy savings in 2020 is the electrical output of about 8 large nuclear power plants.
We are convinced that it is very important to continue to use public resources to enhance our research programs and participate in international efforts in this field. But meanwhile, the ENEA report gives us an unambiguous: the energy efficiency measures are feasible immediately, saves time when innovations are not yet mature in terms of performance and cost, and allow strategic choices in order more aware and sensitive to the real needs of our country.
uncritically we are constantly reiterated the French example, despite news from across the Alps to define an "industrial fiasco" the French nuclear. That, to be clear, we should realize that by focusing on EPR. "We do not know if we can build it, nor at what price may be conducted by 3 billion euro has the past 5 and it evokes the figure of 6 or 7 billion, "summed up a few days ago an executive of EDF by the French newspaper columns Mediapart.fr.
The manufacturer Areva has had to admit that the shipyard has already produced 2.7 billion Finnish losses will grow and to overcome the selling price (3 billion) of the reactor itself. As has been recognized by such delays entry into service of the ERP in 2012 despite initial forecasts of 2009 speak. And the vice president of the company Electric Finnish TVO, Timo Rajala, from the pages of Les Echos has felt obliged to send the item back the accusations of being the delays, saying that "the project took too long ... We do not we want to pay the costs that were necessary for research and development. "More quietly, EDF announced the postponement of at least one year of commissioning of the ERP Flamanville.
But above all, France has not solved the nuclear dependence from fossil fuels, if we consider that consumes more oil per capita in Germany. And if it is true that in the dead hours, when in a situation of overcapacity, we sell electricity, it is equally true that during peak hours just bought it from Germany itself.
Not to mention the warning heavy launched by the three French nuclear safety authorities, Finnish and English. In a joint statement stressed the need to strengthen the ERP system security because "the way in which it was originally proposed by the licensees and Areva, does not observe the principle of` independence 'of the systems of security and control groups, which is a basic principle of security, and called for a complete overhaul of the system. Basically they said: "This will not do." It is not difficult to imagine how much it cost the French authorities to move a public criticism of what is considered a symbol of French grandeur.
Neither seems very different to the situation that other technology that could be implemented in Italy, the American company Westinghouse AP1000 reactor: November 27 Health and Safety management UK (HSE) has warned it could not approve the project if they respond to concerns expressed regarding safety. To practice radical politics and culture are not affected by the Nimby syndrome or psychosis catastrophe, but there are alternatives, as proposed by the same Aeneas: energy efficiency, alternative energy research.
So repeat the question: should the nuclear? Fixes?

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Rome , corrupt politicians, businessmen, citizens and tourists, it becomes a virtuous?

Even fleas have a cough. Rome, capital of the world of litter on the ground and bottles on the walls, parks devastated and abandoned, the trees cut by the Garden Service, but also the capital of parked cars in the second and third row, with firefighters less urban and less urban fighters in the world, cities throughout the Middle East, for traffic, failure, disorganization and absence of the City (regardless of the ruling party, mind you), and even more attitude and arrogance of its citizens, with a capital ridiculous and a subway car with the big SUVs that claim to pass undisturbed even in the alleys of the old town, where pedestrians can not get through even on the zebra and risk their lives every day without anyone to defend them, a city directly administered by the lobbies traders (which in Rome are truly the most stupid in the world, as opposed to any reform, albeit timid), well, a city so claims forward to becoming a modern metropolis and Anglo-Saxon, indeed a virtuous city in ecology?
is not credible. Even if the writer was called as a consultant with full powers. The City of Rome failed to create even trivial curb stone, so do not be crossed, to defend and to speed up the main bus route, let alone could do things phantasmagoric now proposes, and that recall both the publicity shot of northern Italian city where reigns Legambiente.
The mayor of Rome, Alemanno, is "right" while Legambiente and the Greens are "left"? But never mind, there is no difference: they are all politicians. In fact, by the good intentions data to feed to the press it soon becomes clear that if the Roman bureaucracy and among politicians of the City is not a radical selection of the "Ten Commandments" of good intentions advertising, little or nothing in practice will move into actual behavior in the city and in the municipalities.
Instead, we need a profound and widespread in city life and behavior of the Romans.
Here we are only the usual claims that Italian politics has accustomed us. Or the small side measures that do not touch the core of the problem: no private cars in the historic center. Do you remember the "green gasoline", a carcinogen, which replaced - indeed for government decisions and Europe, but the analogy is meaningful - that lead that was not cancerous? You know the bins for recycling that would be forgiven for their heavy antiesteticità with a real advantage in terms of environment? Here, things like that.
seems almost to read ads Legambiente a few years ago, all "recycled" and removal of fine dust and no substance practice of everyday life.
Well, Right and Left are careful not to touch the real focus: eliminating the car from the historical and crack stops prohibited. Then the rest would come from himself, people would be "forced" to rearrange their daily lives. Should take subway and bus as they do in New York, London and Paris. Advocate the lady-well. Assuming that there are ladies in Rome's beautiful people. Forced
. Economically, of course, because we are liberals. Why 200 € per day fine real, effective, safe, stop anyone, even the unruly, anarchic viziatissimi and Romans. And because even one euro per day paid by, non-resident, enters the Ring Road are still something. Rome can not be a city open to all, with thousands of buses that block traffic because they invited or attracted by the Vatican, a foreign state that has to pay the disturbance and the damage it causes to Roman citizens. Rome can not be achieved with impunity by hordes of Italian and foreign tourists unruly and filthy. These The Romans were aware of high cost stuufi to pay them.
Other than CO2 and glass bottles: in Rome we must make a real unpopular. The mayor, whatever, must be willing to be driven by popular acclaim. Must displease merchants, professionals, drivers and state employees. Just so we're pretty sure he's doing the interests of the city. A new Nathan. Anything but. And here's the article which led to our opinion, the good and innocent Amorosino Francesco Nanni editor of the Newsletter, which has the ambition of the Capital (NV)
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COPENHAGEN ROME POINT TO BE GREEN CAPITAL OF EUROPE
With an ambitious piano all'insegna dell'efficienza energetica e delle rinnovabili, la città abbraccia la causa ambientale in vista di una prossima 'terza rivoluzione industriale.
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"Roma capitale energetica d'Europa. È ancora presto per dirsi, ma è questo l'obiettivo del sindaco Gianni Alemanno, che vuole fare della sua città un simbolo della rivoluzione ecologica. Fonti rinnovabili, efficienza energetica, architettura sostenibile, trasporti puliti: sono solo alcuni dei punti di un Decalogo per la città di Roma studiato insieme all'economista e ambientalista Jeremy Rifkin dopo il 'Workshop for a third industrial revolution' di Roma poco prima dell'inizio the climate conference in Copenhagen. And the international summit sponsored by the United Nations, the City of Rome, but also the province with the presence of President Nicola Zingaretti, illustrating good practice already underway and future projects. In Copenhagen. However, Rome was ranked fourteenth in the European Green City Index, the ranking of the most environmentally sustainable compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of Siemens.
The capital is in the middle ranking among the 30 major European cities studied, in its Copenhagen summit, followed by Stockholm and Oslo, while the list is close to Kiev. The research focused on eight areas dioxide emissions carbonica, energia, trasporti, acqua, qualità dell'aria, rifiuti e utilizzo della terra, costruzioni e politiche ambientali. Molto bene Roma per quanto riguarda 'emissioni di anidride carbonica' ed 'energia', dove infila due settimi posti, male nelle altre categorie, dove non arrivare mai nella top ten, fermandosi addirittura al diciottesimo posto per quanto riguarda i trasporti, al diciannovesimo per l'acqua e al diciassettesimo per la gestione dei rifiuti e la qualità dell'aria.
Adesso, però, per Roma è tempo di cominciare quella che Rifkin ha definito "la terza rivoluzione industriale", ovvero "un piano di sviluppo economico abbinato a un piano di sviluppo energetico". Per questo il Comune ha preparato un Masterplan, a series of concrete actions on energy and environment to be implemented in the near future. First point of the Decalogue is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which will be implemented, and is the second point, through energy efficiency, with the objective of reducing, for example, electricity consumption by 50% and 80% heat consumption of the schools in Rome by the installation of solar panels, and promoting renewable energy sources (third point).
Also important is the promotion of sustainable architecture and urban planning, with the adoption of efficient energy conversion and use in production activities, while you bet on the development of technology based on hydrogen. The City is anxious to install Within a year ten stations for the distribution of hydrogen and methane for vehicles using funding from the European community, as well as extend their infrastructure to recharge electric cars.
In order to promote efficiency, moreover, will encourage the 'smart grids', intelligent networks that use the principle of self-consumption and mass distribution only in self-produced energy which is in excess of consumption, to be used the nearest centers of demand, in order to minimize problems and losses. In addition, they activated the 100 thousand points of light Led by 2020, will create a cogeneration plant in St. Andrew's Hospital, a new stadium with zero emissions e una rete energetica condivisa allìuniversità La Sapienza.
Il settimo punto è rendere più efficienti e puliti i trasporti pubblici, favorendo il 'car sharing' e il 'car pooling', e iniziative che combinano il trasporto pubblico con la bicicletta, mentre l'ottavo proponimento è la creazione di 'isole dell’energia' per settori come ospedali, uffici, scuole, strutture ricettive, fabbriche, case, ville, per i quali si svilupperanno delle 'matrici' in modo da facilitarne e accelerarne l'accesso alle nuove tecnologie energetiche. Tutto questo deve avvenire, ovviamente, anche in un'ottica di sviluppo economico e crescita occupazionale (nono punto), per garantire a Roma una posizione di città attenta the issues of energy and environmental sustainability at the international level (tenth paragraph).
"We want to send the message that Rome sits at the head of a new model of environmental and energy development - said the mayor Alemanno - why not just give undertakings abstract, but to understand that we must build a new development model that will bring jobs, technological innovation, and make Rome more economically competitive.
From this point of view, the mayor has also committed to expand the green of the capital, as happened a few days ago when he participated in 'Rome Copenhagen ', the involvement of urban forestation started by Legambiente in which they were Pratone hundred trees planted in the valleys of the Park dell'Aniene, which will become one thousand by February in order to offset some of the carbon dioxide emissions in the city.
The initiative of the Capitoline is a true revolution in the Italian and, if managed in the best way, it could really become a model for the rest of the continent. Alemanno went to, for example, also compliments of the business daily Financial Times, pointing out that Rome is the first European capital to field such a plan. Now we must move from words to deeds and to ensure that we can truly speak of a 'third industrial revolution' and not just another green operation facade disappeared after international summits "(Francesco Amorosino).

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Less biodiversity, and the old and new diseases are global as epidemics

Cases of Lyme disease, transmitted by ticks (1983-1985): almost all (976) in Triveneto.
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risk of getting Lyme disease, and not only because of our environmental carelessness. Nemesis that touches us have for too long abused the Earth? But yes, after the tick bite us and suck the blood, enclosing the bacteria terrible, "on behalf of the ecosystem."
Study links the emergence of new diseases and the global spread of diseases once to changes in local biodiversity and the decline and extinction of species. The newsletter reports the latest issue of Science online . The destruction and loss of biodiversity, driven by the replacement of native species with alien species, deforestation, globalization of transport and other environmental changes may increase the incidence and spread of infectious diseases among men. And 'This is the conclusion reached by a study conducted by researchers at the University of Vermont and the Environmental Protection Agency published in the journal BioScience (Global Biodiversity Loss Affects Disease Ecology). "A number of new diseases is emerging and those that were once local are becoming global. Diseases such as West Nile Virus has spread worldwide very quickly "notes Joe Roman, one of the authors. This is not the first time that man has to face a barrage of new diseases. Even the transition from hunting to agriculture, domestication and the creation of permanent settlements led to a first "epidemiological transition." A later was dictated by the Industrial Revolution, with a decline of infectious diseases and the increase of cancer and allergies. Now, say the authors, we face yet once at a time like this. "This is the first work that links the current epidemiological transition to changes in biodiversity and the decline and extinction of species," says Montira Pongsiri, dell'EPA. "Molte persone hanno lavorato su questo argomento in relazione a singole malattie - dal West Nile virus alla malaria, dalla schistosomiasi agli hantavirus - ma nessuno ha raccolto tutti questi studi e li ha messi a confronto. Noi abbiamo analizzato tutti questi studi e mostrato che l'emergere o il riemergere di molte malattie è legato alla perdita di biodiversità. Guardando da un punto di vista più ampio a questo problema possiamo dire che non si tratta affatto di casi specifici. Sta accadendo qualcosa a scala globale", ha detto la Pongsiri. "Non stiamo dicendo che la perdita di biodiversità sia il fattore primario di tutte queste malattie emergenti, ma è evidente che ha un ruolo importante", ha detto Roman. "Prendiamo il caso della Lyme disease, transmitted by ticks infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, "says Pongsiri." The tick receives the bacterium usually sucking the blood of small animals, especially in the United States from a small rodent, the white-footed peromisco. Historically, the disease was very rare because there was probably a wide range of different mammals. The tick fed on many of them, but because many are ill-suited to host a few ticks, the bacterium transmitted to humans. The reduction and fragmentation of forests and woodlands has led to a drastic decline in the number of mammals and the flourish of peromisco. So, the more it spreads peromisco in the woods, the greater the likelihood that the tick is infected, and then being bitten by an infected tick own.

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Global Warming. Hacker agrees to Holocaust deniers against the catastrophic

Panel (click on it to enlarge ) published World Climate Report substantially horizontal shows the trend of temperatures in the United States from 1895 to 2009. Below the graphic context of the IPCC temperature of the last millennium reconstructed.
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WARM AS A WORLD THAT MAYBE IT IS COOLED
Gianfranco Bangon, reformism, November 25, 2009

Fuga di notizie. Finiscono in rete migliaia di mail trafugate da un server dell'Università dell'East Anglia. A leggerle sembrerebbe che i dati sul global warming siano stati “addomesticati” o quantomeno che siano stati ignorati («dieci anni con temperature relativamente stabili») quelli che non lo confermavano. Un migliaio di mail vengono trafugate da un server dell'Università della East Anglia e finiscono in rete. È la corrispondenza fra alcuni ricercatori che hanno contribuito a provare l'aumento delle temperature degli ultimi decenni e il loro lavoro è alla base dei Rapporti dell'Agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per i mutamenti climatici.
Nelle mail rese pubbliche c'è di tutto: espedienti to adjust the data to confirm the heating, proposals to undermine the credibility of their opponents and hide data more uncomfortable.
The chart you see on this page [see below, click to enlarge] is perhaps the most famous of all time and has earned the name "hockey stick" (or hockey stick). Represents the temperature of the last millennium and is the most cited evidence in support of the thesis on the contribution of human activity to global warming. The reconstruction was published in 1998 and the authors are three climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes. The chart assumes a political significance in 2001 when it becomes absolutely l’architrave del terzo Rapporto dell’Agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per i mutamenti climatici (Ipcc), oltre a figurare in centinaia di documenti istituzionali e politici che sostengono la necessità di tagliare drasticamente le emissioni di gas serra.
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Va precisato che l’andamento delle temperature indicate nel grafico è una ricostruzione che utilizza varie fonti di dati: misuriamo le temperature a partiredal 1850, per cui per ricostruire quelle precedenti si è dovuto ricorrere ai cosiddetti proxy, ovvero a temperature ricavate dagli anelli degli alberi o a microrganismi contenuti nei sedimenti lacustri e marini. Ma al di là dei tecnicismi, resta il fatto che la ricostruzione Mann and colleagues shows an almost flat trend in temperature between the year 1000 and the beginning of last century, after rising relentlessly with a very steep curve. It is therefore a clear indication that human activities are responsible, through emissions of greenhouse gases, this precipitous rise. From a strictly political point of view is the scientific supporting documents justifying the Kyoto Protocol and any other mitigation program will follow.
The controversy over the soundness of this reconstruction began in 2003 when a Canadian mining consultant, Stephen McIntyre, the challenge openly arguing that it is vitiated by artifacts due to miscalculations and unreliable data. In years after it set off an intense debate with dozens of published works for or against, destined to remain in contention of the experts. They will consider the case of many academic institutions including the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences USA, as well as a subcommittee of the Senate and disciplinary associations. The original group of 1998 recruits in the meantime, other researchers, is dubbed "The Team" and becomes the soul "technical" group of experts that the IPCC carries out the scientific part of the report prepared by the UN every four years. In short, we speak of climate on the crest of the wave that publish journals a big impact factor represents a major and have also in influencing national policies on climate mitigation.
Now, however, the credibility of this group is severely tested by the publication of a thousand mail that a hacker had stolen from the server of the University of East Anglia in Britain. Although the most likely hypothesis is that it has been a researcher of the group, and not a hacker to steal the documents. The material "pirated" was placed on a Russian server that generally the people of the network connects to download free cracked programs.
More than a thousand mail are now available and some leave a suspect conspiracy to undermine the credibility of the journals that published the work of their opponents. At first, these emails have been defined apocryphal, but since they could become a boomerang called into question many researchers have preferred to admit that they are true.
has been known for several years, for example, that the temperature at this time is not growing, so a researcher writes in an email: "Yes, it is not much higher than 1998 and this worries me ... there is the possibility to have a long period before a decade with relatively stable temperatures ... maybe I can cut the corner before the final points of my speech. " In 2008
the usual McIntyre sending a request using the Freedom of Information Act, a measure that guarantees free access to government data, whether institutional or do not relate to national security. The news spread and soon there is an intense exchange of letters asking you to cancel the correspondence on the subject.
But this is less worrying than the mail - and sonodecine - are those which suggest ways to adjust the data do not converge with the interpretation of the Team.
This buck comes at a delicate enough: on the one hand it is almost at the Copenhagen meeting where discussion of a Kyoto II, which already has a lot 'of trouble, the other groups Scientific are working on the next IPCC report where you can stack the deck in the past.
Another node will be the conduct of scientific journals that have published the work "domesticated" and will now receive more than a few complaints.
The scandal is certainly a lot at stake because it raises many scientific questions on honesty of the most influential group in the industry, but as these researchers have worked with public funding there is also the risk that you open a federal investigation.
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Scientists "deniers" against "catastrophic"
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HACKER DISCOVERS THE TRICKS OF SCIENTISTS
Paul Valentino, Corriere della Sera, November 22, 2009
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-tical skeptical of climate-warming but are in complete euphoria. Convinced that he had grasped with his hands in the cookie jar you the prophetic and the shamans of doom of global warming. In the middle of negotiations not to derail the December summit in Co-penhagen, the scandal of it-you touched revealed yesterday by the New York Times makes explodes-ing the dispute public about the dan-ni real or alleged caused by greenhouse gases to the sustainability cli- ; tions of the planet. They shout to scam the deniers, re-spond with equal vee-dementia theorists of human responsibility, citing the huge amount of data in so-ro-Stegne of the thesis. Some dub-bio on the quality of research re-mane. Above all now that hundreds of e-mail, stolen by pirates telematics-tical from the compu-ter of the Univer-sity of East An-glia, UK, reveals that the author-no-li researchers and scientists from the British and Americans often "forced" and in some cases altered the data in their possession, fighting for re-arguments of skeptical there, agreeing and true pro-Prie strategies communi- to convince the public. Not lacking in substantial correspondence refer-ences derisory and insulting to those who put lost-national bio-dub in the view of the global war-ming, one of the authors of the mail calls "idiots." "This is not a smoking gun is a mushroom cloud-co," he told the daily New York-Patrick Micha els, a climate expert who has long accused the opposite of overheating is not pro-duce evidence and data-winning a support of the thesis catastrophic.
THE DISCOVERY - The discovery of the incursion took place last Tuesday, after the hackers had penetrated the server an-other site, a blog run by NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt, where they were comin-ciated with downloading files of e-mail exchanges between them and scholars of East Anglia. Two days later, the first mail-comin ciat have to be published in The Air Vent, a website dedicated to the arguments of skeptics. The police opened un'indagi-ment even though the first doubts on l'autenticità-mail were dissolved by the same Anglo-American scientists, who have confirmed to be the authors. "The fact is that at this mo-ment we can not give an explanation for the fail-ing and heating is a fiction che non possiamo permetterci», scriveva poco più di un mese fa Kevin Tren­berth, del National Center for Atmospheric Research di Boulder, in Colorado, in una discussione sulle recenti va­riazioni atipiche della tempe­ratura. Ancora, nel 1999, Phil Jones, ricercatore della Clima­te Unit a East Anglia, ammet­teva in un messaggio al colle­ga Michael Mann, della Penn­sylvania State University, di aver usato un «trick», un ac­corgimento per «nascondere il declino» registrato in alcu­ne serie di temperature dal 1981 in poi.
GIUSTIFICAZIONI - Mann ha cercato di sminuire il significato del termine trick, spiegando that is a word often used by scientists to refer to "a good way to solve a problem-ended" and does not indicate a manipulation. In this case, were questioning two data sets, one showing the effects of changes in temperature-ra on the rims of the trunks of trees, the other regarded the re-development of atmospheric temperature over the last 100 years. In the case of the circles of the trees, the temperature increase is not demonstrated from 1960 onwards, while the thermometers have to continuously to do so until today. Mann has admitted that the data of the trees were not more im-bent to find the must-variations, but that "this has never been a secret." According to Trenberth, e-mail actually shows "the substantial integrity of our research." But Patri-ck Michaels, the scandal-the shores attitude talista fundamental theorists of global warming, "ready to violate the rules, but to discredit and cause serious damage to the re-amputated those who just want an honest scientific debate co.

A "bomb" reported by many newspapers around the world, but the inside pages, so that the general public has lost. On blog of young Italian economists in the U.S. are some grafici. Ed e cco i siti Climate Monitor , BBC News e Il Foglio , e i blog degli scienziati "scettici" Watts e Beauregard . Per un quadro complessivo di un problema così dibattuto si veda anche la voce di Wikipedia .

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Wind. Here are the tricks and funding of State and Regional thrown to the wind

L'Italia, povera di vento, prima al Mondo negli incentivi di Stato all'eolico inutile, costoso e disfiguring. As the saying goes? "Gatta hatching there." Here beside the castle Montepo 'in Scansano, Tuscany.
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When it comes to wind energy and incentives in the international comparison, it usually refers to the Green Certificates, which are by far the most widely used form of incentive, and usually also the only one.
Here, however, things work differently. The Green Certificates worth more than elsewhere, and they add many other advantages that make Italy the promised land for industrial wind despite the fact that our country is not particularly suitable for wind energy (on average 1700 hours per year, including actual over the internet just 1450 hours / year against the over Northern Europe 2000-2800, Ed from Italy our data). But the highest incentives in Europe, through green certificates valued twice as much as elsewhere. (Over 160 euro per MWh).
Therefore, the race to ask permission to plant a hundred meters high wheel is in fact a trivial race incentives and facilities, which are rich few at the expense of the community. We see in
a concise guide to Sennuccio Del Bene, the European Geo-Environment and Territory of Monterotondo Marittimo, which are the seven sources of gold which attract speculators and multinational corporations from all over. First of all
1. Green Certificates, which are subject to sale for more . Every 50 MWh of wind power results in a certificate which is freely tradable on the market. The sale of green certificates is guaranteed by the GSE, the Manager of Electrical Services who buys at a predetermined price, but more often certificates are sold to producers of energy from traditional sources which by law must produce a certain share of energy also from renewable sources or, alternatively, buy green certificates. The price of certificates was free to fluctuate, with the last Budget (2008) the government has set a ceiling of € 112.88 per MWh, but has also extended from 12 to 15 years duration of the incentive.
2. Prepayment on "estimates" of future production. At the request of producers, in addition, the GSE (which is a public entity) may bring forward the payment of green certificates to cover the estimated production for the coming year, with year-end balance based on actual figures of production. So it happens that the estimates are inflated as much as 30% (Official figures for the GSE 2006) to obtain ready cash Ente money to spend or invest as most pleases the owners of the facilities. public money that comes from our bills (Cip6 component) and that in the event of failure of a manufacturer, are difficult to recover.
3. The trick of "restructuring" and that's new incentives. Furthermore, the limit of 15 years is the incentive to circumvent the law through the sleeves. Just a restructuring - also necessary for the wear parts - for to be as "new" service and restart from scratch the counter years (15 +15!). It may be sufficient, but not enough money to Public wind power in Italy is a veritable flood. So the Green Certificates adding a fourth element of favor:
4. Obligation to buy wind energy from the electric Manager. E 'the bureaucratic "Dispatching priority." In practice, the GSE, the manager of electric utilities, is obliged to buy "anytime now" all the electricity produced by wind, irrespective of actual demand of the system and the ability to purchase energy at a lower price - a situation typical seen at night with the energy from nuclear power. Mechanism that forces the GSE to pay l’impresa eolica per l’energia prodotta, anche quando per ragioni tecniche non è stata immessa in rete. Per i titolari di impianti eolici ciò si traduce in una garanzia sul venduto sino all’ultimo KW prodotto, consentendo di lavorare in un mercato privo di concorrenza; invece per il Gestore di rete ciò rappresenta costi aggiuntivi, scaricati sull’utenza. Basta così? No.
5. Prezzo prefissato, altro che "mercato". Bisogna considerare che i MWh immessi in rete vengono retribuiti dal Gse a un prezzo prefissato definito di anno in anno (circa 68 €/MWh nel 2007) e che gli speculatori si avvalgono di
6. Infrastrutture a carico del Gestore della Rete, non dei produttori. Le infrastrutture necessarie al collegamento di un impianto eolico alla rete di distribuzione sono a carico del gestore della rete, cioè Terna, e non del produttore. Ma, direte voi, gli investimenti per realizzare un parco eolico sono consistenti, siamo nell’ordine delle decine di milioni di euro, e di quelli si faranno ben carico gli imprenditori dell’eolico. In effetti sarebbe così se non ci fossero anche altri favori di cui nessuno parla , come i
7. Finanziamenti di Stato e Regioni a fondo perduto e/o a tasso agevolato previsti dalla legge 488/92. ll ministero delle Attività Produttive stila annualmente delle graduatorie ed elargisce i finanziamenti che teoricamente sarebbero finalizzati a stimolare lo sviluppo locale. Negli ultimi anni sono stati concesse diverse centinaia di milioni all’eolico (470 milioni nel solo 2006). Per la parte non a fondo perduto la legge prevedeva un tasso dello 0,5%; ora l’interesse è cresciuto, ma è di gran lunga inferiore ai tassi di mercato. Questi finanziamenti statali riducono notevolmente gli oneri dell’investimento iniziale e abbattono (talvolta dimezzano) i tempi di ammortamento dell’impianto. [La recente inchiesta deella magistratura che ha portato in carcere l'avv. Vigorito, presidente degli industriali del vento Anev, ha also blocked at the Ministry of Industry about € 30 million of grants for which seem to have made "false papers" and he seized wind worth 153 million euro. Ed, informed by our Italy]. And where the State does not arrive, arrive regions, especially in the Centre-North: In the case of the wind turbine provided in Monterotondo Marittimo Tuscany Region has awarded more than 3 million grant. [And knowing our South, I think the Sicily, Puglia and Molise , bristling with windmills unnecessary and disfiguring, they have not financed for free? We'd love to know. Ed]
conclusions. The sum of all these incentives and concessions makes it convenient to install wind turbines, irrespective of their actual productivity. The conclusion you can draw it yourself.
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To learn more, read the fine web-site Way Wind " and that of the National Committee of Landscape , with whom he has perfect Liberal Ecology common understanding.