Rome Among Italy's Cities Most Changed by Fifty Years of Warming

A report comparing fifty years of climate data has identified the Italian cities most and least affected by warming, with Rome, Milan and Naples among those most changed, according to The Local Italy. The outlet reported a figure of 2.9C higher for the cities examined, and said the findings surprised even the scientists who produced them.

The Local Italy is an English-language publication aimed at foreign residents and travellers, and its framing is practical rather than academic: which Italian cities have warmed most, and by how much. The report's underlying methodology, its authors and the full city-by-city table are not set out in the available foreign coverage.

The finding arrives in the same week that Rome's Colosseum was closed for a second day after a 22-year-old worker died installing lights inside the amphitheatre, an event reported by The Local Italy and Euronews. The two stories are separate, but foreign readers of both will draw the same conclusion about the pressures on a city built for a different climate.