Will Venice, Italy really disappear in the future?

The water city of Venice may disappear

Venice, a famous Italian water city, is known as the "Pearl of the Adriatic". It is both a tourist attraction and an important port in Italy. However, some experts recently warned that if climate warming continues, Venice will be in danger of being flooded in the next few decades.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded a five-day closed-door meeting in Brussels on the 6th. About 400 representatives from 190 countries refined a 1,572-page climate change assessment report written by more than 2,500 experts over a period of six years into a 21-page "Summary Report to Policymakers", urging countries to take immediate action to curb The global warming trend has seriously threatened the human living environment.

This research report said that rainfall in the northern Mediterranean region will increase by 10%-20% in the next 30 years, and the water level of the Venetian Lagoon connected to the Adriatic Sea will continue to rise. If this continues, Venice will disappear within a few decades. Experts from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analyzed that there are three main reasons for the rise in water levels in Venice: first, the bottom of the Venice lagoon rises due to silt; second, the islands near Venice are eroded due to natural gas extraction; third, the global Climate warming causes sea levels to rise. According to reports, flooding has occurred frequently in Venice in recent years. St. Mark's Square, which is well-known to tourists, is flooded more than 10 times a year.

It is reported that this report is the clearest and most comprehensive scientific explanation of the consequences of global warming to date. The summary points out that the global climate has changed. Observations from all continents and most oceans show that many natural systems are already affected by regional climate change, especially rising temperatures. Evidence includes melting glaciers, reducing permafrost, earlier migration of birds, and increasingly acidic seawater. The main culprit for this change is human activity. The report shows that of the 29,000 sets of scientific data collected by scientific researchers as causes of climate change, 90% point to global warming caused by human activities.