[Larry Lucido]

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

[Red Badger]

I thought that was a good thing.

A few years back they were complaining of flooding!

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

[xp38]

Could be worse. Occasionally they get the opposite known as inundations.

[babble-on]

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

[struggle]

Global warming leading to mass non-flooding

[Ellendra]

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!

[Magnum44]

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.

[doorgunner69]

“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.

[2banana]

Dang...

No rising seas for you!!!!

Six months!

[Tupelo]

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.

[SaxxonWoods]

Must be Global Cooling. Snuck up on us.

[logi_cal869]

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.

[Recompennation]

I thought that foundation/land surface subsidence was causing flooding / damage to a lot of the older structures or maybe the blame was switched to climate change sea level rise?
Conjectures, the more breathless the sell the less the credibility attributable.

[Sequoyah101]

But what about the sinking of the city and the rising sea levels and the big barrier they built to save the sitty from flooding?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Ignore them, they are always bitching about something ... too much water, too little water, city sinking, city drying up, etc.

[DoughtyOne]

Hey Gretta. Please answer the green courtesy phone.

[dljordan]

Good time to do some repairs.