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Posted on 06/06/2026 11:46:16 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A few hours after Lionel Messi and the Argentine World Cup team checked into their training base in Kansas City, a series of thunderstorms pounded the area, knocking out power, felling trees and bringing flood and tornado warnings.
Hardly ideal conditions for the world’s biggest soccer tournament. Yet that’s likely just the opening salvo of a disruptive weather system that could affect the 38-day competition, which kicks off next week with games in Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
“It’s pretty safe to say climate change is going to have a mark on this World Cup,” said Kaitlyn Trudeau, a senior research associate of climate science for Sacramento-based Climate Central. “With climate change we know it’s not just going to be hotter, but it’s also going to increase the humidity as well.”
And that could make this summer’s World Cup one of the last of its kind. Tournament soccer in June and July has been a tradition dating to the first World Cup in 1930, but since then global temperatures in June have warmed by 1.89 degrees, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That may not sound like a lot, but it takes many days and nights of extreme heat to move the needle that much.
“It can be a very dangerous situation,” Trudeau said.
As a result, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has already begun discussions on moving the start of the tournament from June to March or October after 2030. In the meantime, early kickoffs, cooling breaks, air-conditioned stadiums and regular weather-related delays will necessarily become common features of the tournament, according to “Pitches in Peril,” a detailed report on the impact of climate change on global soccer, released in the run-up to the World Cup.
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@USMNT
Most days for the last five weeks - high temp is 50s and low 60s.
Since the official Seattle temperature is recorded right next to a run way at SeaTac airport, our summer daily high temp is ALWAYS 3 degrees higher than the KOMO weather station in down town Seattle.
And naturally, they lost.
I am so looking forward to this game.
https://youtube.com/shorts/m6YyWoEDLhg?si=Rx7Rv9ZWyQfme5E7
Egypt is playing Iran in Seattle on June 26.
They’re having a huge pride event right outside the stadium.
Homosexuality is illegal and punishable in both countries.
I’ll root for the Muslims.
Will some kind soul please tell the L A Times that climate change has been debunked and it’s so yesterday?
The United States including northern states and even Canadian provinces have always experienced warm weather with temps in the 90s typically occurring for a week or two each year in the the ‘summer’ time... That’s why we call it summer.
In the UK and France if they get up to 90 degrees (which typically happens for a couple of days each year)... They freak out like it’s the end of times.
In many American states like Florida and Texas 90 degrees happens every day during ‘summer’... Because it’s summer.
I always thought the US was exempt from “climate change?” Isn’t that why we have to take in billions of “climate refugees?”
“Climate change”??? Good God...won’t these climate morons let it go? What next from these pathetic pinheaded losers?
Lefties are so concerned about the climate that they’re going to build some more giant, energy sucking data centers. (snark)
MLS teams that come to Houston call the stadium “The Oven”.
95 degrees. High humidity. No wind.
And with an old woman riding a bike with a small dog in her front basket. Throw in flying monkeys and it would be a hoot.
“”In the meantime, early kickoffs, cooling breaks, air-conditioned stadiums and regular weather-related delays will necessarily become common features of the tournament, according to “Pitches in Peril,” a detailed report on the impact of climate change on global soccer,””
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Perhaps all players should be issued a Segway.
They might get out of breath you know, climate change and all.
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Don’t give FIFA any ideas. They might even charge you a climate change emergency emergency event cancellation fee and a service charge
Yeah, gonna be very hazardous climate-changey-wise; I’d go home and sit in a tub of ice water and wait for the world to go up in flames if I was Youse, I would. Yeah, soccer might maybe kill ya good and dead, it might.
I know soccer is really big in certain areas. So? I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch any professional soccer match. Those who love it can play it & get very good at it & it won’t make one iota of difference to me. Same goes for football, baseball, basket ball. NASCAR racing...well, not so much since Richard Petty retired & Dale Earnhart is gone.
I don’t think I’d walk across the street to watch any of them. With that said, if I’m flipping channels and nothing else is on i may watch a baseball, football or basketball game. I prefer TCM old movies. I can live without TV, my girlfriend cannot.
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