Nobel prize-winner Parisi blasts climate-denying politicians

Nobel prize-winning Italian physicist

Giorgio Parisi blasted climate-denying politicians on Tuesday

with the deadly heatwave Italy and much of Europe is currently

enduring highlighting the devastating impact of global heating.

"The problem is that the further we go, the worse the

temperatures get," Parisi said on the sidelines of an event

organized by the Green-Left Alliance (AVS).

"If you consider that, while the average global temperatures are

up by 1°C, in Italy they are up by 2°C, so medium-to-extreme

(weather) events are becoming more and more frequent.

"Sure, you might get used to it, but you might end up in the

graveyard before you do.

"Denialism by the political world is damaging because we are

failing to realize that we're facing a very serious problem.

"Furthermore, we also fail to understand that switching to

renewable energy can actually improve our lives.

"For example, if we were able to replace private transportation

with efficient public transportation, we would consume

significantly less oil and gasoline".

US President Donald Trump is a climate denier.

Other politicians, such as Italian Civil Protection Minister

Nello Musumeci, do not dispute that climate change is real, but

say whether it is caused by humankind is open to debate.

The overwhelming majority of scientists say that global heating

is being driven by human greenhouse gas emissions such as the

burning of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal.

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