Those who doubt sea-level rise when land glaciers melt should look at a world map with ocean depths. You will see off all the Continents "The continental Shelf"..Worldwide Cliffs and beaches, all submerged when the last big glacier melt happened, at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

Leonard Harley, banbury,

No global warming? - in a couple of years we will be able to move ships north of Canada. polar bears are all but gone. several island nations in the pacific are being evacuated - permanently .... hurricanes are becoming ever more powerful and frequent... no global warming indeed.

matt, Seattle, USA

Mother Nature will always gives us Tornados, Hurricanes, Earthquake, Flooding, etc that she has given us for billions of years. I always feel bad for the people that are in her path. But Global Warming.....please.....

If you have a glass of ice water and the ice melts does it flow over the glass?

Tammy, Houston, USA

Eleanor,
Mass is always a constant. If they teach basic physics in Atlanta, I'm sure it is also available in Derbyshire, as well as basic geology. Take a bucket of silt and place a heavy marble block on it. Shake the bucket (indicating ocean movement) and watch it sink. Am I missing something?

Leslie, Atlanta, GA, USA

James, Chicago - intelligent science, flawed argument. Water may expand when it freezes and thus melt into a smaller space - but how many vast ice formations have you seen IN the sea? Ice melts down INTO the sea from a space outside of it, thus raising water levels.

Eleanor, Derbyshire,

Venice is sinking. For centuries when the waters would get too high in Venice, old buildings would be knocked down and knew ones built on top to raise them up higher then the water. Sea level is uniform throughout the world depdending on tides. why don't we see this in other locations?

Justin, Cottage Grove, WI, USA

The earth's temperature has been dropping for the last eight years which is more consistent with the onset of the next Ice Age. So if it is not global warming, then why is the ice melting? Could it be HAARP?

Kanaka, Laie Hi., US

Perhaps the Ventians are Blind to the fact that their land is sinking. If only they could look out their windows to see what is happening.

Tom, Atlanta, USA

Iain,
Make a glass of ice water and watch what happens to the water level as the ice melts. Water expands when it freezes.
The Antarctic caps are actually growing. The globe is not warming. All the models that say so have failed to predict past and future events.
Read.

James, Chicago,

CO2 production lags temperature change look it up.

CD, Buffalo, USA

I hope the most particular and unbealiveble city in the world doesn't destroy on their self by the unefficence of Italian People

Luca Consiglio, Rome,

Karla

USA the cleanest country in the world? I would suggest that you take a look at the CO2 emissions per capita and then decide if that is truly the case before you start blaming Africa?

Debbie, Bury St Edmunds, England

Thanks so much for your antedotal evidence about temperatures in the mid USA and the glaciers you see from your back door. Hardly proof.

Bill , Buford,

Yes, it's pretty simple! Ice caps melt and the water has to go somewhere. Oceans don't have a drain like bathtubs do. So the water level goes up! I think even Americans will understand that.. especially when they see California disappear under a metre of sewage-ridden water in about five years!

iain, bedford, uk

"Italian meteorologists said that the entire country was being affected by bad weather, with driving rain, snow, hail and high winds causing flooding". Global WARMING, huh???

Colleen O., Des Moines, USA

Karla Whittier, your statement about US being clean is nonsense. You have 20 times the CO2 footprint per capita than India has. If Indians ever got to your level of CO2 emission, the whole world will be doomed.

Ravi, Bangalore, India

Excuse me, there is credible evidence of global warming. Just today on the news, temperature of the Mid USA had temperatures 15+ degrees above normal. Oceans are rising because glaciers are melting. I live with a view of Mount Baker and go up to Whistler a lot and the glaciers are smaller each year!

Bethany, Mount Vernon,

Global warming skeptics: please show us where we can view your scientific research that disproves the theory of global warming. waiting... I have a feeling we'll be waiting for a long time. If you can't understand it, then it must not be true. USA needs to invest in education again.

Mike, Minneapolis, USA

Global warming is a farce, a hoax. There is no such thing. No CREDIBLE scientific evidence confirms any such thing.
The truth here is, Venice has been sinking for many decades because it was built on soft land subjected to tidal forces that cause subsidence.

Algore, Manhattan,

Globle warming Please!!!!!!!!!! If you read the article it says that in 1966 they had worse flooding than today. The silt & bad weather. There has always been floods and bad weather. People will believe anything.

Thomas Hartly, Atlanta Ga., USA

Global Warming? USA, look at what you have caused?
Uh, excuse me, but the USA is the CLEANEST country in the world. To our own detriment I might add. Being clean will be our doom, because we will not be able to compete with the other countries. What about India, Asia, Africa? Aim your arrows there

Karla, Whittier, USA!

I hope the water recedes soon. It's one of the most magical cities in the world.

Timmy, LA, USA

I saw the the title of the article and just had to read to see where they stuck in the farce called Global Warming. Sure enough I found it. I am waiting for them to bring back the coming of a new ice age like they when I was growing up in the 70s. It was the end of the world...

Bill B, San Diego, USA

Horses in Venice? I've been there 5 times and have never seen a horse.

Trixie, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

There is no global warming.

Venice has been sinking since the day it was built, it's called subsidence! When you build on a swamp what do you expect? New Orleans suffers the same fate and has built levees as the form of protection.
More Venice info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice

Juan McCain, New Orleans, US

The global warming aspect of this flood is TOTALY TRUE. Without the added rise in sea levels this flood would only have been 1.595m above sea level not 1.6, thats a HUGE difference. If global warming is realy causing sea levels to rise it's only been half a cm in 100 years not 5ft.

ron, stratford CT, USA

Wow 5ft above sea level. Did anyone happen to notice a bit of bad weather called Hurricane Ike? The water in Galveston, TX was 22ft above sea level.

My sympathies to the Venetians, but Venice will be fine.

Scott, Dallas, USA

Re: Global Warming: Personally, I think it's BUNK, BUT, it IS possible that global warming, rather than evaporation due to heat is responsible for rising coastal waters BECAUSE, global warming would cause the glaciers to melt, therefore contributing to rising sea levels.

Annie Fields, Marshfield, USA

I was there about 2 years ago and the locals were telling me about about construction on flood gates that had already started.

Christian, Nice, France

It is the horses of Venice if feel so sorry for. They are responsible for the rise and popularity of this beautiful city and at times like these are the first to be forgotten.

mark serrell, bedford, bedfordshire

We were in Venice one week ago yesterday and we saw snow flurries on Monday morning and mild flooding of San Marco...but NOTHING like this. My heart and prayers go out to the Venetians.

Barbara St.Martin, Virginia, USA

Is very funny that USA citizens are the only here explaining that the global warming is nonexistant.
Open your eyes and see what us (yes you too) have caused to the planet.

Carlos, Bogotá, Colombia

I agree with John from NYC, if the problems was global warming, the water would be evaporating, not flooding the place. Has Algore chimed in with his answer to this?

Ray, Wiesbaden, Germany

Andy O, unfortunately that IS the sea water coming in the city centre. There is indee a major flood defense system built but it is not ready yet. But again Venetians are used to that and the city itself is built with flooding in mind. Not a major problem really.

andrea ceccanti, london,

Robert.W, seriously. Think rational. It's the average that is getting higher and higher. The extreme moments can happen any time.

Raoul, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands

that's when we should start to worry.---


YES-A NEW ICE AGE

ICE SKATEING ON THE CANALS ANYONE?

AARACH, PELHSM, NY, USA

Re: Global Warming is the cause

Fact: Using the same data that the global warming alarmists use, it's worth point out that the temperature of the planet is actually dropping, and has been since 1998 — corresponding to a drop in solar activity and output. Hmm....

Stu Ogletree, Chicago , USA

Right, rising sea levels because of 'global warming'. Give me a break.

Mark, CA, USA

It looks like Nostradamus' prophecies are coming true for Italy.

Ted, Dayton, NJ, USA

Global Warming????
Why then was the HIGHEST level in 1966???? and the second highest in 1986???? Gee, the emperor's new clothes look really warm. I am not impressed with the kind of thinking that blames GLOBAL WARMING every time the wind blows.

Robert W., las vegas, usa

This is common for Venice. But the rising sea levels could make it a constant reality. A massive project of dredging and flood control is needed for Venice.

kd solo, Alta,

Worrying about floods in Venice is like worrying about snow in Moscow. It's supposed to flood in Venice. The city has been flloding since it was founded. Such alarmist sissies. When high water stops coming to Venice, - that's when we should start to worry.

john, nyc,

Man induced global warming is unfounded "science". With that said, the sea levels have been rising for the past 100yrs at 1-3mm/yr and it may have been this way for 100s of years. The rate remains rather constant. Adding global warming as a cause is alarmist, nothing more.

tom, saint paul, usa

It's easy to forget but that is raw sewage water they are cavorting in.

Patrick, san francisco, california

Best Wishes to all Venicians from you friends in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jason, New Orleans, La. , United States of America

We were just there in May. Everyone was very nice, so this is upsetting to see. They need major pumps to remove water from the the inner city and put it out to sea.

Andy O, Orlando, USA

My heart goes out to the Venetians. Putting aside the 15m tourists a yr, the pigeons & tacky souvenier stalls, Venice is a very magical place. However, I suspect they are wishing that the $14m spent on the new Ponte di Calatrava bridge would have been better spent on flood defences in the Lagoon

Wendy J. Waters, Gillingham Dorset, England