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There is no doubt now,
in the scientific community,

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that global warming is actually happening.

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There are several lines of evidence:

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global temperatures have increased

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by about one degree in the last hundred years,

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glaciers all over the world are actually melting,

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the level has grown by about 25 centimetres,

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the temperature of the troposphere,

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the lower part of the atmosphere,

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is increasing at the same rate

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as the surface temperature.

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Essentially, just to have an idea

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of what is happening now,

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is we are kind of

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going back to the climate of the dinosaurs:

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the temperature of the Earth

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was more than six degrees higher than today

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and there was much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,

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and this carbon dioxide was absorbed by the plants

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and then the plants were buried in the soil

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and eventually this became oil and coal,

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and now we are putting back in the atmosphere,

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of course in a much shorter time

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than it took for this carbon dioxide to be buried.

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This happened in the past,
in the course of millions of years,

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now we risk of doing this

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in a hundred years.

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So, essentially, we need

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a decarbonisation of the energy system,

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so greater energy efficiency

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and move to renewable energies.

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The target of this project that we have with Enel

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is essentially to provide a series of climate scenarios.

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In other words, how can climate

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change over certain regions of interest to Enel,

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in particular we will focus on some European areas, Italy and Spain, and South America,

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and then Enel will use this information

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to see how this might affect,
of course, their activities in these countries.

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Another target of this project we have with Enel

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is to improve the communication

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of the problems related to global warming.

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Unfortunately, today this information

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is often not very balanced.

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The real problem is that, if nothing is done,

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climate will be very different

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and human society will have to adapt

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to a very, very different climate

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and, if the climate is too different,

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it will be very difficult to adapt.

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So we need to keep global warming

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within a manageable limit,

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so we hope that, also through this project,

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we can send this clear
message to as many people as possible.

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