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#Italy: Congratulations to 22,000 Italians (80% Female) over the age of 100. Lorezno Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

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#Italy: Congratulations to 22,000 Italians (80% Female) over the age of 100. Lorezno Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-07/greying-italy-has-more-people-aged-over-100-than-ever


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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors.

0:06.8

Immediately to Italy, the climate, the reports this year are not the drought of last year.

0:14.0

However, I welcome Lorenzo Fiori, the executive director of the Anzalda Foundation, reporting

0:20.0

on Northern Italy and the pattern of weather prediction. We've had drought, we've had floods.

0:27.0

Well River Valley is reported to be returning to normal. However, Lorenzo, a very good day to you.

0:33.7

What can we say about the heat wave this summer in Italy? Good evening to you.

0:38.3

Good evening, John and good evening to all the regulists.

0:40.8

Well, let me tell you that all the media this morning, hoping that they're news report

0:46.1

about the possibility that next week we will be a very, very hot wave.

0:52.4

Again, the anti-psychrome from Africa should invade the Mediterranean area and the temperature

1:00.2

in the islands of Sicily and Serdenia in Italy are projected to reach even up to 47 Celsius

1:07.8

degree, which is almost 116 Fahrenheit. I mean, these are unusual temperature, at least

1:15.3

for my memory. Also, last year we faced for a very long period of time temperature close

1:23.4

to 40 degrees. So, 47 is something unbelievable.

1:29.2

Connected to the climate, of course, is the question of the future and climate change.

1:35.1

We do have this from the Italian government. Italian's energy minister has ordered a halt

1:39.9

to electricity production from fuel oil and the restrictions of coal-fired power generation

1:45.5

to a minimum as the country scales back emergency measures implemented last year to tackle

1:51.3

the energy crisis. There's good news in here. And the good news is that the crisis that

1:57.3

we projected for several years because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be

2:03.1

abetting. Is there more confidence that energy sources will remain stable over these next

2:09.1

years, Lorenzo? Well, let me tell you that this is a good move from our government, but

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