"On Wednesday night, Venice suffered the worst flooding in half a century. Most of the time, “acqua alta” comes across as local folklore: the piazza filled with water, the gleefully splashing kids and the amused tourists. You put on your rubber boots and go about your life. But recently there have been more and more soaring floods. At dinnertime, we received the text messages and heard the sirens with the four distinct tones announcing the highest-possible water levels." It has been mentioned over, and over that, there is a direct link here, to climate change.