Venice Floods: A Very Old Problem Gets A New Twist…

The annual flooding of Venice is now your fault.

Venice has been battling rising water levels since the fifth century. But today, the water seems to be winning. Several factors, both natural and man-made (none of which have anything to do with rising levels of CO2), cause Venice to flood about 100 times a year (usually from early October until late February) a phenomenon called the Acqua Alta.

Although tides are minuscule in the Mediterranean (the narrow, shallow Adriatic Sea has about a three-foot tidal range), when a storm approaches the city, the wind pulls the surface of the water up into a dome, causing a surging storm tide, which in turn causes flooding in the city.

Yet the mainstream media, who have chronicled many of these floods, as well as published innumerable articles outlining the engineering exploits of the Italian government in their failed attempts to combat the progressive slip of the famous city into its inevitable watery grave beneath the gently lapping waters of the Adriatic, have now jumped on the “Global Warming Bandwagon”… And, “it’s all your fault… Shut up and pay your taxes!”

But what is the true cause of Venice’s slow death?

Founded in 421 AD by a Celtic people known as the Veneti, Venice was the trading hub of the known world for centuries until its demise shortly after the discovery of the Americas and the resulting shift of trade routes to the Atlantic.

Built on top of wooden pylons driven into the silt of a tidal swamp at the mouth of the Po River, subsidence was inevitable. Large heavy stone buildings built on mud, what could go wrong?

The slow-motion sinking of the city was exasperated further in the nineteenth century by many of the early industrial projects that occurred at the time, such as offshore piers and the railroad bridge to the mainland, which all disturbed the seafloor and tidal cycles in ways that made the city more vulnerable to flooding.

Then in the twentieth century, the local industry made things even direr by extracting massive amounts of groundwater from the aquifer beneath the lagoon, a situation that lasted for nearly 50 years before the government stopped the practice in the 1970s, but not before the city had sunk by roughly nine inches.

So yet again we find that the powers that be have an agenda, and it has nothing to do with facts and the truth…

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