It’s a fact, Jack.
(Last year’s winner.)
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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The horror!
God these people are stupid beyond belief.
They gonna drown?
Maybe they should just cancel it. It would benefit us all.
Honestly, the people on the planet are too far gone to be saved. Maybe the planet will decide to shed itself of this annoyance.
Only the ones looking up that get their nostrils and lungs filled with water.
A thunderstorm, in Kansas in the summer! Absolutely unheard of until this year. Everyone, use paper straws wrapped in plastic!
Soccer sucks.
It is interesting they are bringing climate change back. This is intentional.
God these people are stupid beyond belief.
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Yep, they most certainly are.
Are you kidding? Soccer is the most exciting sport on earth. Only exceeded by women’s basketball league. Aren’t you excited? The commercials would have you believe you are the only person on earth not excited.
There were never thunderstorms or tornadoes in Kansas City before 1985, which is when Global Warming began.
There was never wintry weather there ever before 1985 either, because of Global Climate Change.
It just depends on the time of year.
It’s a fact, Jack.
(Last year’s winner.)
I just finished watching my alma mater in the softball national championship. Shirley, you jest.
I think the author was probably physically arouse while writing this. Porn will do that
High school football in Texas, starts with Aug practices.
Tornadoes in Kansas? I remember a 1939 documentary film based on a 1900 scientific paper about a young girl and her dog being picked up by a tornado.
Cons never give up the con.
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