Links tagged “sea levels”

1825 Venice:

Last time Venice flooded like this was during the global cooling scare in 1966

05 Nov 1966, 2 – St. Joseph News-Press/Gazette at Newspapers.com

2019 Venice:

James Delingpole: "The real reason for Venice’s plight is whichever idiot who decided all those years ago to build the city on a series of swampy islands at the edge of a lagoon.On the plus side, this helped the Venetians build a wealthy maritime empire and later to extract gazillions of euros from tourists who think it’s romantic being propelled in a funny looking boat down rancid, rat-infested canals by a man in a stripy shirt with a long stick. On the downside, Venice is slowly going the way of Atlantis."

"If it’s ‘climate change’ that is causing it now, what was the cause 53 years ago when CO2 levels were about 90 ppm lower?Could it be, maybe, that Venice is sinking, that tides will rise, and that flooding every now and then is what Venice does."

Climate change could punch a hole through the financial system by making 30-year home mortgages — the lifeblood of the American housing market — effectively unobtainable in entire regions across parts of the U.S. That's what the future could look like without policy to address climate change, according to the latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.