Due to Rising Sea Levels -- 🤡Gondola Service Halted In Venice As Famous Canals Run Dry🤡
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A good time and place to do some metal detecting for treasure.
You will find every discarded washing machine for the last 60 years.
It looks like there isn't enough room in there for anything like that.
I saw a video years ago about it. People would take old appliances and just heave them out the window into the water because it costs money to get it hauled away.
Yess! I’ve seen videos of ppl doing this on the Thames etc. I guess that is low as well. Unreal treasures.
If you can hold your nose at the same time... I recall the putrid smell of those canals. With them being dry, it must be a hundred times worse.
Hell yeah
wait a sec... aren't the polar ice caps melting due to global warming (oops.. I mean climate change)? wouldn't that mean more water and the canals should be overflowing? Isn't that why the power elite buy up beach front mansions? Where did the polar ice cap water go? sigh.
Melt a glass of water filled with ice and see if the level changes as it melts
Believe in the science!
Bullshit levels are on the rise
Maybe they are going to find some concrete filled barrels, similar to during the low water levels at Lake Mead last year.
Imagine the smell
I’ve been there. It smells even with higher water levels.
Absolutely true. I was splashed by some of that awful water and my leg broke out in a bad rash. That water was awful.
I've been there too, but as far as I can recall it didn't really smell at all. Smelled like water and moisture, but other than that there was nothing. It might have depended on the season, how much fresh rainwater had fallen, etc.
Oh how strange. Didn't I hear something about Venice will be no more due to global warming?
Clown.
Wasn’t this city supposed to be flooded and under water by now?
I was told there would be rising sea levels. Wtf.
It would be fun to dig thru the mud and sand and look for old stuff.
article says it is because of a draught. Perhaps HAARP should be called into action over Italy.
But the canals connect eventually to the ocean.
Seem to be a lot of water related issues throughout the world.
Oh my, the canals aren't nearly as deep as I always imagined!
More boosters needed over there.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/
TV Program Description Original PBS Broadcast Date: November 19, 2002
Venice homepage
Today's tourists often need wading boots to explore the architectural wonders of Venice. Will they one day need scuba gear? NOVA covers the battle to keep the world's most unusual city from drowning beneath the rising tides of the Adriatic Sea. The lessons we learn about how to stop rising sea levels will prove essential for other coastal cities around the world, from New York to Shanghai.
For centuries, Venetians have been fighting the forces of nature that threaten to alter their city's precarious relationship with the encircling lagoon that has long served as protection from invading armies. In the 15th century, the trouble was silt, which was filling up the lagoon from nearby rivers. Environmental engineers of the day solved this problem at enormous expense by diverting the rivers to more distant outlets.
More recently the peril has been the subsidence of the ground on which Venice is built, combined with ever higher tides caused by rising sea levels. When storm winds blow from the south, the Adriatic floods the lagoon, causing acqua alta, or high water. Under certain weather conditions, the flooding can be catastrophic. Venetians have kept up with the rising water by raising the level of floors and pavement. This has deformed elegant buildings, created awkward doorways, and left very little room to keep building up in advance of acqua alta.
Another alarming sign is the green ring of algae at the high-water mark. Ominously, this line has crept above the impermeable foundation stones that have long kept saltwater from seeping into walls, slowly destroying buildings from within. Infrared images show that the saltwater is indeed inside doing its damage.
Venetians, however, are not without a plan to save their city. Engineers have proposed a multibillion-dollar series of gates that will rise off the seafloor at the entrances of the lagoon whenever acqua alta is forecast, holding the sea back until the high tides subside (Watch a video about the proposed gates).
Not everyone supports the gate project. American archeologist Albert Ammerman recently made headlines when he announced his conclusion that Venice is sinking faster than previously believed. Ammerman and others also criticize the planners of the gates for not taking into account the worst-case scenarios for sea-level rise caused by global warming. If the sea rises faster than the engineers predict, frequent gate closings could severely inhibit water circulation in the lagoon, turning the lagoon into a cesspool of industrial waste, agricultural runoff, and raw sewage, all of which now flow out to sea with the tides.
If Ammerman is right, the working life of the gates may be short. "The people who are claiming that this is going to be a successful solution for 100 years, 200 years have no basis for that whatsoever, in terms of the best guesses about global warming," worries Ammerman. He believes more studies should be done on the impact of the gates and that it may be necessary to go back to the drawing board to find a more viable long-term solution.
But supporters of the gates counter that rapidly rising sea levels mean the need for the gates is more urgent than ever. "I think you have to act and learn simultaneously," says environmental studies expert Pier Vellinga. "We think this solution is very good for the short term. And if you postpone and study and study and study, we may study until the sea has risen 50 centimeters [20 inches]. Then you're not safe. If you have the barrier in place, you have insurance for the future."
In December 2001, the Italian government announced that it would indeed build the gates, though as John Keahey points out in Weighing the Solutions, Venetian leaders remain ambivalent about the gates, and the current pro-gates national government might be replaced by one not so supportive of the idea. So whether the gates will actually be built remains to be seen. In the meantime, the seas continue to rise.
Back to top Flooded square Sea of trouble: Historic St. Mark's Square is awash about a third of every year.
Sinking City of Venice Web Site Content
See the Gates in Action Watch a video about the proposed barriers designed to hold back the sea.
Venice Under Siege Use satellite images to zoom in on hazards imperiling the city.
Weighing the Solutions How Venetians are dealing with sinking.
What Causes the Tides? An animated explanation of tidal ebbs and flows.
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I watched an entire documentary regarding these canals, and the ships that actually come through, and we’re causing the water levels to rise instead. The way that they were built, it’s better for them to have less water. But not this much less. Lol.
That's counterintuitive!
Maybe they should check the fresh water volume entering Venice.
Alot of flooded tunnels maybe?