In Italy, drought and record temperatures are affecting the quality of grape harvests at the nation’s famous vineyards.
Farmers say that wine production this year could drop by as much as 40 percent.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from Rome.
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Indeed, Allah is The King of Kings!
The wicked fall and are gone
but the house of the just stands firm.
🇮🇹EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND UNDERESTIMATE THE SUN (google translate 🇮🇹/🇬🇧)
There is an established fact, the Earth has warmed up by about 0.9 °C since the pre-industrial period, that is, starting from 1850. 
Climate models minimize the sun and only consider variations in the brightness of the sun (the amount of energy emitted by the star every second).
Instead, the sun can influence the climate, and even more significantly, through the strength of its magnetic fields (those commonly known as sunspot cycles), by modulating the flux of cosmic rays (also coming from deep space) that penetrate the atmosphere and influence, with other forces, directly, the Earth's cloud cover, inducing climate change.
It is obvious that an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere induces warming. But not, as is led to believe, in a simple and automatic way.

The millennial cycle of solar activity consistently explains the observed warming of the past two centuries. All the so-called climatic optimums (the medieval one of 1,000 years ago, the Roman period of 2,000 years ago, the Holocene optimum between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago) repeated themselves approximately every millennium. All were probably warmer than the present but with a much lower CO2 value than the present (less than 300 ppm against the current 410 ppm).
The climate system most sensitive to solar activity would appear to be that of oceanic oscillations, the great regulator of the Earth's climate.
We are inside a millennial cycle of the sun's activity, made up of various sub-periods and cycles determined in duration, which will reach its conclusion in 2100.
By superimposing what we know about solar cycles and their various temporal trends with the climate history of the last millennium, we obtain an almost perfect fit between the sun's cycles and the alternation of climatic changes (hot and cold periods) recorded in the millennium.
Our warming epoch begins, in fact, with the end of the last great solar minimum, known as the Dalton minimum (1790-1830). Since then solar activity has generally been increasing and this coincides with the warming of the climate from 1850-1900 to today.
Fall of rome
VEXATIOUS ITALY TOOK PART IN WORLD WAR. 😠😠😠
It's summer in Rome which today is
Weather
Now
96°
Historical Rome doesn't have mild summers
Feels like 103°