<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f0a6bf8f-9630-4d3d-90bb-6098e4a2c30a/FF8EA57D-5B05-4062-9D97-0950F57D756F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html"><H1> Climate change could swamp Venice's flood defence </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html"><P class="infuse">Rarely was a city so aptly named. By the end of the century, Venice – Italy's City of Water – could face daily floods, and according to a new study, the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324575.400-plumbing-the-depths.html">costly and controversial flood barriers</A> now being built might not be able to protect it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html"><P class="infuse">Laura Carbognin at the <A target="NS" href="http://libeccio.bo.ismar.cnr.it:8080/venezia/welcome-to-the-portal-of-institute-of-marine-sciences?set_language=en">Institute of Marine Sciences</A> in Venice and colleagues combined data on <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17924062.300-venice-dragged-down-by-force-of-nature.html">land subsidence in the city</A> with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's forecasts of <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html">global sea level rise</A>. They then calculated how this "personalised" sea-level forecast would change the city's daily tides.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html"><P class="infuse">When the tide rises above 110 centimetres, Venetians call it <I>acqua alta</I> ("high water"). This currently happens about four times a year, but Carbognin's team found that by the end of the century high water could swamp the city between 30 and 250 times a year. The impact on the local environment would be considerable – Carbognin calls it an "unsustainable aggression".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/E58F3B17-91EF-4EFC-AC01-90354CAAAC5E" alt="Italy's City of Water could be flooded more often (Image: Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FF8EA57D-5B05-4062-9D97-0950F57D756F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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