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From one of the most famous astrophysicist on the Web and a meteorologist from the Epson Meteo Center, an exhilarating guide to uncovering climate-related hoaxes.We are in May, in New York it freezes. Global warming, where the hell are you? this tweet by Donald Trump is just one of the many blunders of the US president, victim of a great confusion between global warming and weather. But Donald is not the only one who has unclear ideas on the subject: just open Facebook to come across hundreds of denial theories. Luca Perri and Serena Giacomin collect the best climatic lies, and then disassemble them in this book which blends laughters and sciencee theory of the Second Punic War stands out among the most famous of them: “ere was no snow on Hannibal’s Alps, this explains the crossing with elephants”. If the authors of similar posts had bothered to read the version of Tito Livio (1st century BC), they would at least have had discovered that maybe there was some ice on the mountains, and how in fact, the Carthaginian pachyderms died of cold.From sunspots to the displacement of the Earth’s axis, from legends about Greenland, to the alleged benaects of the increase in CO2, an astrophysicist and atmospheric phht together to combat functional illiteracy
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Luca Perri is a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Insubria and at the Brera Observatory. He is an astrophysicist at the Workshop of the Planetarium of the Milan Planetarium and an astronomer at the Merate Observatory. For over 10 years he has been dealing with culture dissemination on radio, televisions, print media, festivals and social networks. He has collaborated with Rai, De Agostini, Repubblica, Focus Junior, Pikaia, European Researchers’ Night, Genoa Science Festival, BergamoScienza and with the Planetarium of Lecco. He is the Italian champion and internationaalist of FameLab 2015, the talent show on scientopularization. He has written and conducted columns within Rai Scuola’s Memex and Galileo programs. With De Agostini he published Errori galattici (2018) and Partenze a razzo! (2019). From 2019 it is among the 4 communicators chosen by Piero Angela for SuperQuark +, digital derivate of the historic program born in 1981.
Serena Giacomin, graduated in Physics in Bologna with a specialization in Atmospheric Physics. She is a meteorologist and president of the Italian Climate Network, the Italian climate movement. It leads the weather reports on TV (Canale 5, Italia Uno, Rete 4, TgCom24, Iris, La5) and on radio (RTL, Radio Monte Carlo, Virgin Radio, Discoradio, Radio Subasio). She is involved in the Schools Project. Hier passion for meteorology was born sailing, since - at the age of eight - she set foot on a boat for thst time.
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- Publisher/Imprint DEA PLANETA LIBRI / DE AGOSTINI
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788851180799
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.90 EUR
- Pages192
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePINGUNI ALL'EQUATORE
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions16x22 cm
- Illustrationb/w illustrations
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