Posted on 02/12/2014 2:02:14 PM PST by SMGFan
Olympians are speaking out on climate change at the Sochi games.
U.S. cross-country skier Andrew Newell, who competed in his event on Tuesday, posted a letter addressed to world leaders calling for action on climate change. Roughly 105 athletes from 10 countries have signed the letter, including 85 from the United States. "Winter is in jeopardy," the letter states. "Inconsistent weather patterns caused by a changing climate are causing destruction around the world, and the economic impact is being felt in both large cities and small mountain communities."
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Maybe they should have had the Olympics somewhere else, where there is snow.
Like my backyard.
Yeah, I give winter another 6 to 8 weeks tops.
Tell that to us down here in the South lol.
Hey Andy! Get over here and shovel my driveway!
I told the fools they should have held this year’s “gay” Olympics in Atlanta instead of Sochi, Sushi, whatever.
They may be good athletes, but they are fools.
Hell, I am in GA and shoveled snow for the 2nd time in my life today.
Maybe he should get a job instead of living off of donations for him to play for a living.
We need High Priest Algore to oversee throwing virgins into volcanos to appease Goddess Gaia! Nothing else will satisfy Gaia, and convince Her to stop the warming!
Scientific advice from a skier? Who does he think he is, a rock musician or an actor?
Another product of the public schools.
“” Inconsistent weather patterns ....”
Fool
When has weather ever been consistent?
What did they expect? I read that the average winter daytime temp in Sochi was 45 degrees. Did the Olympic committee even take that into account when they awarded the games to Sochi? Why, no, of course not. It was a political decision to give Sochi, Russia the games.
Try having the Olympic Games somewhere other than a sub-tropical climate. Idiots.
Meanwhile, some of the Great Lakes here in America are 79% covered with ice. Most of America has experienced, and continues to experience, the worse winter in decades.
Andrew Newell and his moonbat “Olympians” don’t know what the hell they are talking about.
LOL. He’s a “celebrity”, and they know everything.
Pardon me, this is not aimed at the poster, but at the the ignoramus Olympians who made the original statement:
FOR F***KS SAKE! YOU’RE HAVING THE OLYMPICS IN A SEMI-TROPICAL RESORT ON THE BLACK SEA!!!! OF COURSE THERE WILL NOT BE A LOT OF SNOW, YOU IGNORANT ASS!!!!!
There, rant over.
They shouldn’t have chosen one of Russia’s summer resorts as a venue.
Heck there is currently more snow in parts of Georgia than in Sochi.
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