The tide level from the Venice lagoon it continues to rise by half a cm every year. An alarming fact according to what emerged from the research of a group of researchers fromNational Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) which deal with the study of sea level rise in the Mediterranean.
Piazza San Marco at risk in Venice?
The last measurements from the Municipality’s tide centre they found how the tide level of the Venice lagoon continues to rise, year after year, by approximately half a centimeter. The latest measurements reported are the following: from 4.22 millimeters in Lido and 4.38 in Punta della Salute up to 5 millimeters in Malamocco and 5.91 in Chioggia. These data, combined with satellite observations from the CNR and other research institutes, have launched the alarm about the future of Venice: by 2150 the water level could rise so much submerge Piazza San Marco.
A truly worrying scenario for Serenissa which could coexist with Piazza San Marco in the coming years constantly submerged by 70 centimetres of water and several areas of the city flooded. Data in hand, the situation is destined to worsen given that between 2019 and 2023 there were 58 events that recorded 110 centimeters of water in the city.
Sea level rising by 1.5 meters by 2150: the alarm over Venice
Even the research of a group of scholarsNational Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), published in the magazine “Rendiconti Lincei di Springer”, drew attention to how sea levels continue to rise in the Mediterranean. A worrying fact which also affects the Venice lagoon and which is closely connected to climate change. Marco Anzidei, authors of the study, underlined how thesea level riseaccelerated by subsidence, is causing irreparable damage such as thecoastal erosionbut also increasingly smaller beaches and floods.
«Sea level rise, especially if accelerated locally by subsidence, is leading to increasingly severe and widespread coastal erosion as the beaches recede and marine floods with very significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts for the populations”, declared Marco Anzidei, researcher at Ingv. The projections of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are clear: by 2150 sea levels could rise by 1.5 metres. For this reason Anzidei invited everyone to ensure that concrete actions can be put into practice as soon as possible to avoid all this by helping the areas at risk.
