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30 October 2020

Pinguini all’equatore

by Perri Luca, Giacomin Serena, Perri Luca, Giacomin Serena
Pinguini all’equatore

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 science. The theory of the Second Punic War stands out among the most famous of them: \’There 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 beneficial effects of the increase in CO2, an astrophysicist and atmospheric physics fight together to combat functional illiteracy..

  • Publishing house De Agostini
  • Year of publication 2020
  • Number of pages 191
  • ISBN 9788851180799
  • Foreign Rights Maria Luisa Borsarelli mluisa.borsarelli@deagostini.it
  • Price 15.90 €

Perri Luca, Giacomin Serena, Perri Luca, Giacomin Serena

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 . For over 10 years he has been dealing with culture dissemination . Serena Giacomin, graduated in Physics in Bologna with a specialization in Atmospheric Physics. She is a meteorologist and president of the Italian Climate Network

Pinguini all’equatore
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