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<h1 align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><span style=3D'mso-ansi-lang=
uage:IT'>Conferma:
il Mose potrebbe rivelarsi insufficiente<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Sommario=
<span
style=3D'mso-tab-count:7'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&=
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&=
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&=
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>L&#8217;articolo riferisce di uno studio, gi&agr=
ave;
segnalato in questo sito, di Laura Carbognin <i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-styl=
e:
normal'>et al</i>., recentemente comparso sulla rivista <i style=3D'mso-bid=
i-font-style:
normal'>Climate Dynamics</i>. In quello studio si concludeva che le barriere
del Mose potrebbero rivelarsi insufficienti a proteggere Venezia, dato che =
le
previsioni d&#8217;innalzamento del livello del mare sono ora state aggiorn=
ate
e sono molto pi&ugrave; pessimistiche di quanto si ritenesse. Il Mose,
concludevano Carbognin e co-autori, dovrebbe entrare in funzione tra le 30 =
e le
250 volte l&#8217;anno entro la fine del secolo: Tale frequenza veniva rite=
nuta
ingestibile a causa delle conseguenze sulla mancanza di ricambio
dell&#8217;acqua in laguna.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Ora, aggiunge <i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:no=
rmal'>New
Scientist,</i>la climatologa della Nasa Vivien Gornitz dichiara che il live=
llo
marino sta gi&agrave; innalzandosi pi&ugrave; velocemente di quanto previsto
nelle stime usate dalla Carbognin (che prevedevano entro il 2100 un
innalzamento di 26 - <st1:metricconverter ProductID=3D"53 centimetri" w:st=
=3D"on">53
 centimetri</st1:metricconverter>). Pertanto, a detta di Vivien Gornitz,
l&#8217;inadeguatezza del Mose potrebbe rivelarsi ancora peggiore di quanto
prospettato finora. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Ecco il testo completo (in inglese seguito dalla=
 <a
href=3D"#Cambiamento">traduzione in italiano</a>) dell&#8217;articolo di <i
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New Scientist <o:p></o:p></i></span></=
h1>

<h1><i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Segnalaz=
ione
e traduzione di Paolo Lanapoppi</span></i><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>.<o:p></=
o:p></span></h1>

<h1><i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nb=
sp;</o:p></span></i></h1>

<h1><a name=3DClimate></a><a name=3D"_Climate_change_could_swamp Venice's">=
</a><span
style=3D'mso-bookmark:Climate'><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-languag=
e:EN-GB'>Climate
change could swamp <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Venice</st1=
:place></st1:City>'s
flood </span></span><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>de=
fence <o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<ul type=3Ddisc>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-a=
lt:auto;
     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span lang=3DFR>12:42 24
     August 2009 by <a
     href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=3DShanta+Barley+"=
><b>Shanta
     Barley </b></a></span></li>
 <li class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-a=
lt:auto;
     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span lang=3DEN-GB
     style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>For similar stories, visit the </spa=
n><span
     lang=3DFR><a href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/topic/climate-change"=
><b><span
     lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Climate Change</span></=
b></a></span><span
     lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Topic Guide <o:p></o:p=
></span></li>
</ul>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Rare=
ly was a
city so aptly named. By the end of the century, <st1:City w:st=3D"on">Venic=
e</st1:City>
&#8211; <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Italy</st1:country-region>'s City o=
f <st1:place
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Water</st1:City></st1:place> &#8211; coul=
d face
daily floods, and according to a new study, the </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324575.400-plumbing-the-dep=
ths.html"><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>costly and controversial flo=
od
barriers</span></a></span><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-=
GB'> now
being built might not be able to protect it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Laura
Carbognin at the </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://libeccio.bo.ismar.cnr.it:8080/venezia/welcome-to-the-portal-=
of-institute-of-marine-sciences?set_language=3Den"
target=3DNS><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Institute =
of Marine
Sciences</span></a></span><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-=
GB'> in
Venice and colleagues combined data on </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17924062.300-venice-dragged-d=
own-by-force-of-nature.html"><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>land subsidence in the city<=
/span></a></span><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> with the Intergovernmental =
Panel on
Climate Change's forecasts of </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-i=
ts-worse-than-we-thought.html"><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>global sea level rise</span>=
</a></span><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. They then calculated how t=
his
&quot;personalised&quot; sea-level forecast would change the city's daily
tides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>When=
 the tide
rises above <st1:metricconverter ProductID=3D"110 centimetres" w:st=3D"on">=
110
 centimetres</st1:metricconverter>, Venetians call it <i>acqua alta</i>
(&quot;high water&quot;). This currently happens about four times a year, b=
ut
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 environme=
nt
would be considerable &#8211; Carbognin calls it an &quot;unsustainable
aggression&quot;.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<h3><span lang=3DFR>Waterworld</span></h3>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>High=
 water
events will require </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://salve.it/uk/domande/f-domande.htm" target=3DNS><span lang=3D=
EN-GB
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>MOSE</span></a></span><span lang=3DEN-GB
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, the city's system of flood barriers due=
 for
completion in 2014, to be raised, with pollution and untreated sewage trapp=
ed
within the confines of the city's lagoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Carb=
ognin's
estimates of high water events are conservative scenarios and the reality c=
ould
be much worse, says NASA climatologist </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/vgornitz.html" target=3DNS><span lan=
g=3DEN-GB
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Vivien Gornitz</span></a></span><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, a contributor to the </spa=
n><span
lang=3DFR><a href=3D"http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=
=3D688"
target=3DNS><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>IPCC's Fou=
rth
Assessment Report</span></a></span><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-lan=
guage:
EN-GB'>. Sea levels are already </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16732-sea-level-rise-could-bu=
st-ipcc-estimate.html"><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>rising faster than forecast =
in the
IPCC's estimates</span></a></span><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-lang=
uage:
EN-GB'>, Gornitz says, and if sea levels rise more than 26-<st1:metricconve=
rter
ProductID=3D"53 cm" w:st=3D"on">53 cm</st1:metricconverter> by 2100, as Car=
bognin
conservatively estimates, MOSE, which can only cope with <st1:metricconvert=
er
ProductID=3D"60 cm" w:st=3D"on">60 cm</st1:metricconverter> of sea level ri=
se, may
be insufficient to save the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Carb=
ognin
concludes that <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Venice</st1:pla=
ce></st1:City>
needs to quickly look into alternatives. </span><span lang=3DFR><a
href=3D"http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2007WR006177.shtml" target=3D=
NS><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Pumping sea water</span></a>=
</span><span
lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> into a 700-metre-deep aquif=
er below
the lagoon could buoy the city by as much as <st1:metricconverter
ProductID=3D"30 cm" w:st=3D"on">30 cm</st1:metricconverter> over a decade, =
for
example.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span lang=3DFR>Journal reference: <a
href=3D"http://www.springerlink.com/content/100405/?p=3De3b26231b17449e19e8=
c6db0285cf315%CF%80=3D0"
target=3DNS><i>Climate Dynamics</i></a>, <a
href=3D"http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-009-0617-5" target=3Dns>DOI:
10.1007/s00382-009-0617-5</a></span></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DFR><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<h1><span lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-f=
ont-weight:
bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h1>

<h1><a name=3DCambiamento><span style=3D'mso-ansi-language:IT'>Il cambiamen=
to </span></a><span
style=3D'mso-ansi-language:IT'>climatico potrebbe sommergere le difese di V=
enezia
contro l&#8217;allagamento<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I link con le parole in azzurro si possono aprire
solo dal testo sul sito originale:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span></=
span><span
style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT'><a
href=3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17668-climate-change-could-sw=
amp-venices-flood-defence.html"><span
lang=3DFR style=3D'mso-ansi-language:FR'>http://www.newscientist.com/articl=
e/dn17668-climate-change-could-swamp-venices-flood-defence.html</span></a><=
/span><span
lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:=
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT'>12:42, 24 agosto =
2009
di <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>Shanta Barley</span></u><o:p></o:p></span>=
</h1>

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fine di questo secolo, Venezia - <st1:PersonName ProductID=3D"la Citt&#6550=
4;"
w:st=3D"on">la Citt&agrave;</st1:PersonName> d&#8217;Acqua italiana &#8211;
potrebbe essere soggetta ad allagamenti quotidiani, e secondo uno studio
recente <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>le costose e controverse barriere</sp=
an></u>
oggi in via di costruzione potrebbero risultare incapaci di proteggerla.<o:=
p></o:p></span></h1>

<h1><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Laura Carbognin dell&#8217;<u><span
style=3D'color:blue'>Istituto di Scienze Marine </span></u>di Venezia e col=
leghi
hanno collegato i dati sulla <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>subsidenza della
citt&agrave;</span></u> con le previsioni di <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>=
innalzamento
globale dei mari</span></u> fornite dal Consiglio intergovernativo sul
cambiamento climatico (IPCC). Poi hanno calcolato in che modo queste previs=
ioni
&#8220;personalizzate&#8221; di livelli marini cambierebbero le maree
quotidiane della citt&agrave;.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

<p class=3Dinfuse><span style=3D'mso-ansi-language:IT'>I veneziani usano il=
 termine
<i style=3D'mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>acqua alta</i> per le maree superio=
ri ai <st1:metricconverter
ProductID=3D"110 centimetri" w:st=3D"on">110 centimetri</st1:metricconverte=
r>.
Attualmente ci&ograve; accade circa quattro volte l&#8217;anno, ma il grupp=
o di
Carbognin &egrave; giunto alla previsione che per la fine del secolo
l&#8217;acqua alta potrebbe colpire la citt&agrave; fra 30 e 250 volte
l&#8217;anno. L&#8217;impatto sull&#8217;ambiente locale sarebbe considerev=
ole,
al punto che Carbognin parla di &#8220;aggressione non sostenibile&#8221;.<=
o:p></o:p></span></p>

<h3><span lang=3DFR>Mondo acquatico</span></h3>

<h3><span lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-f=
ont-weight:
bold'>Gli eventi di acqua alta costringeranno ad azionare il <u><span
style=3D'color:blue'>MOSE</span></u>, ossia il sistema di barriere
anti-allagamento oggi in costruzione e il cui completamento &egrave; previs=
to
per il 2014, con la conseguenza che l&#8217;inquinamento e il materiale
fognario non trattato resterebbero imtrappolati nei confini della laguna de=
lla
citt&agrave;. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>

<h3><span lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-f=
ont-weight:
bold'>Le stime del numero di eventi di acqua alta offerte da Carbognin
costituiscono degli scenari ancora ottimistici e la realt&agrave; potrebbe
rivelarsi molto peggiore, dice <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>Vivien Gornitz=
</span>,
</u><span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>climatologa della NASA e
co-autrice del <u><span style=3D'color:blue'>Quarto Rapporto di Valutazione
dell&#8217;IPCC</span></u> (</span><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi=
-language:
IT;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Consiglio intergovernativo=
 sul
cambiamento climatico). I livelli marini, dice Gornitz, stanno <u><span
style=3D'color:blue'>gi&agrave; salendo pi&ugrave; velocemente di quanto pr=
evisto
nelle stime dell&#8217;IPCC</span></u>, e se i livelli marini saliranno
pi&ugrave; di 26-<st1:metricconverter ProductID=3D"53 cm" w:st=3D"on">53 cm=
</st1:metricconverter>.
per il 2010, come Carbognin ottimisticamente stima, il MOSE, che pu&ograve;
contrastare solo un innalzamento massimo di <st1:metricconverter
ProductID=3D"60 centimetri" w:st=3D"on">60 centimetri</st1:metricconverter>,
potrebbe rivelarsi insufficiente a salvare la citt&agrave;.<o:p></o:p></spa=
n></h3>

<h3><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:IT;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>La conclusione di Carbogin &egrave; che Venezia =
ha
bisogno di studiare subito delle alternative. Per esempio, un <u><span
style=3D'color:blue'>pompaggio di acqua di mare</span></u> dentro la falda
acquifera che si trova <st1:metricconverter ProductID=3D"700 metri" w:st=3D=
"on">700
 metri</st1:metricconverter> sotto la laguna potrebbe sollevare la citt&agr=
ave;
fino a <st1:metricconverter ProductID=3D"30 centimetri" w:st=3D"on">30 cent=
imetri</st1:metricconverter>
in dieci anni.</span><span lang=3DFR style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:=
normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></h3>

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