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Venice canals drying up amid prolonged spell of low tides
MSN.com ^ | February 21, 2023 | Associated Press

Posted on 02/22/2023 12:40:45 PM PST by Twotone

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1 posted on 02/22/2023 12:40:45 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Wow. Global warming can flood the coastlines while raising Venice out of the water.


2 posted on 02/22/2023 12:43:15 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
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To: Twotone

I thought that was a good thing.

A few years back they were complaining of flooding!

You just can’t please some people!.................


3 posted on 02/22/2023 12:43:57 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Twotone
Could be worse. Occasionally they get the opposite known as inundations.


4 posted on 02/22/2023 12:45:30 PM PST by xp38
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To: Larry Lucido

I am sure what you say must make perfect sense. I am sure the NYT would publish that thought expanded to a letter.


5 posted on 02/22/2023 12:52:33 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Twotone

It’s at the mouth of a river, which is not flowing due to prolonged drought.


6 posted on 02/22/2023 12:59:17 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Twotone

Global warming leading to mass non-flooding


7 posted on 02/22/2023 1:03:51 PM PST by struggle
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To: Twotone

I vaguely recall something about the canals in Venice being too full of silt, and it was going to cause problems eventually.

Sounds like it happened.

Time to get crews out there dredging the silt out. And make sure there’s an archeologist on each team, because I’m betting the artifacts buried there are awesome!


8 posted on 02/22/2023 1:12:28 PM PST by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Sort of like how global warming can cause global freezing, eh?

But didn't you get the memo? The correct term now is climate change.


9 posted on 02/22/2023 1:13:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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The prolonged stretch of ebb tides is linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system over much of Italy, experts say.

Huh? I’m sure there is an explanation, but I fail to see how a high pressure system in an open, uncontained, environment can hold back tides. The med is not exactly open ocean, but it’s pretty close to it. Tides are predominantly lunar gravity induced, not air pressure driven. And while air pressure does vary, in the big scheme of things it doesn’t vary by much. Something else has to be going on.

10 posted on 02/22/2023 1:13:49 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“Since the canals essentially serve as streets in car-less Venice”

Think I read they used to double as sewers as well.

Dunno if they ever fixed that.


11 posted on 02/22/2023 1:15:02 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Red Badger

WHAT ancient remains will they find with the water so low???


12 posted on 02/22/2023 1:19:21 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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500 year old friends of the Clintons ancestors?..............


13 posted on 02/22/2023 1:20:18 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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WHAT ancient remains will they find with the water so low???

Shylock, inside an old wine barrel?

-PJ

14 posted on 02/22/2023 1:24:39 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Dang...

No rising seas for you!!!!

Six months!


15 posted on 02/22/2023 1:27:15 PM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Twotone

I thought they said the oceans were rising.
But wait the Adriatic Sea is not an ocean, it is a sea.
I guess that is different.


16 posted on 02/22/2023 1:51:18 PM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: ridesthemiles

Venice is over 1300 years old. I think just things the people threw away or dropped could be exceedingly interested. No ancient remains though— it’s a swamp.


17 posted on 02/22/2023 1:51:26 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Magnum44

Though Venice is on the Adriatic, not the Mediterranean, I agree with you. Of course, given the simpletons who gravitate to journalism, I can’t say I’m surprised that the article doesn’t explore what seems you you and me an obvious issue


18 posted on 02/22/2023 1:53:48 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Twotone

Must be Global Cooling. Snuck up on us.


19 posted on 02/22/2023 1:57:43 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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In mid-winter, high atmospheric pressure combined with the lunar cycle produces the ultra-low water levels during ebb tide, said Jane Da Mosto, an environmental scientist and sustainable development analyst with We Are Here Venice, an environmental advocacy group.

Much ado about nothing.

20 posted on 02/22/2023 1:58:18 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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