ROME — After decades of bureaucratic delays, corruption and resistance from environmental groups, sea walls designed to defend Venice from “acqua alta,” or high water, went up on Saturday, testing their ability to battle the city’s increasingly menacing floods. By _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/adaptation-works-problem-solved-floodgates-protect-venice-from-flooding/

The waterways of Venice attract millions of visitors from around the world every year – but rising floodwaters have overwhelmed the Italian city. Here we explain why Venice has flooded, what defences there are, and if the city is sinking. _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/venice-is-slowly-sinking/

(ANSA) – Venice could find itself under water within a few decades if current climate trends continue, a top United Nations climatologist said on Friday. Over the next 30 or so years rainfall in the northern Mediterranean will increase by _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/false-alarm-venice-under-water-in-few-decades-says-ipcc-deputy-head/

Add disappearing Venice and drowning Pacific islands to scores of other IPCC myths about the impact of climate change. We interrupt our scheduled Junk Science Week material to bring you news from the front line of the global climate scare. _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/no-climate-death-in-venice/

New research led by an Australian government boffin says that Venice is not, in fact, set to disappear underwater in the near future as a result of global warming. “The survival of Venice and its lagoon is seriously questioned under _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/false-alarm-venice-wont-drown-after-all/

WHEN THE SEA COMES FOR VENICE, which happens mostly in the fall and winter, the following occurs: First, the local authority activates a siren located at Punta della Salute, across from the Piazza San Marco. It sounds like an air _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/parting-the-sea-how-venice-is-adapting-to-flooding/

City’s €6bn Mose barriers to protect against high tides unfinished after 15 years “We don’t know when we will reopen. Thank you, Mose!” reads the sign pinned to the door of Pasticceria Rizzardini, a small bakery and coffee shop in _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/venetians-rage-at-flood-defence-delay/

Idyllic islands and bustling cities such as Venice and Miami may be spared from rising sea levels in the near future because parched land is absorbing some of the water released by melting glaciers. The planet’s continents have soaked up _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/sea-levels-rising-slower-than-expected-nasa-satellites-discover/

This is an impressive piece of climate research. So why did it not get more media coverage? Is it too cynical to suggest that whilst research showing that the Sun has little influence in contemporary climate change is reported with _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-global-little-ice-age/

You might think that storms and rising sea levels are the greatest threat to the survival of coastal cities. But in many waterfront megacities the ground is now dropping up to 10 times faster than the sea level is rising, experts _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coastal-megacities-sinking-faster-than-sea-level-is-rising-new-study/

It’s inevitable; after every natural disaster a conversation starts about how to prevent a recurrence. New Yorkers are launching that conversation now, and while it’s likely to be an intense and lively debate, effective flood protection for low lying neighborhoods _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/sandy-york-safe-sea-care/

The last interglacial period (LIG)—the Eemian—is commonly believed by scientists to have been warmer than the current Holocene interglacial. Along with that balmier climate there is evidence that sea levels were significantly higher than today. Previous studies have pegged Eemian _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/why-are-sea-levels-so-low/