Posted on 02/06/2018 5:47:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Warmer temperatures and declining snow are making it tougher to host the games.
It’s no surprise for climate researchers that training for the Winter Olympics, and the games themselves, have run into trouble. For sports contests that rely on snow and ice, a warmer global climate is no friend.
The same week in January that Women’s Cup races stalled, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, released a study concluding that climate change is increasingly threatening the viability of the Winter Olympics, held once every four years.
The updated study, which includes contributions from Canadian, Austrian, and Chinese researchers, concludes that if global greenhouse gas emissions are not dramatically reduced, only eight of the 21 cities that have previously hosted the Winter Olympics will be cold enough to host them by the end of the century.
Even if the goals set by the Paris Agreement in 2015 are achieved, only 12 of the 21 cities would be suitable by the late 21st century. Innsbruck, Oslo, Sarajevo, Squaw Valley, Vancouver, Chamonix, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Grenoble and Sochi – all part of Winter Olympics history – would no longer be on the list.
Protect Our Winters, an advocacy group based in Boulder, Colorado, and founded by snowboarder Jeremy Jones, works to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on winter sports and recreation.
With carbon emissions unchecked, winter temperatures could warm up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, resulting in decreases in snow cover area and snowfall, and a shorter snow season, the study said. Snow depths could decline in the West by 25 to 100 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at yaleclimateconnections.org ...
More fake news BS!
Is that you, Lovey?
President Trump caused this! IMPEACH!
AN INCONVENIENT AL GORE EXAGGERATION:
'By 2010 lower Manhattan in NY City, the Florida coast and Pacific islands will be under water.'
They won't give up on the Global Warming scam until they figure out how to make better money on a Global Cooling scam.
Back in the 1970's it was settled science that we were heading for a mini ice age.
Then Al Gore invented the internet
Then he invented Global Warming Wealth Redistribution.
Did they call off the polar bear luge?
Follow the money.
I thought it was Gore BULL-warning.
I not am dslesxic...
You know what they say about getting older, Things long in the past seem like they happened yesterday...
Between STDs, drug abuse, steroid doping, and cronyism, I figured this Nationalist pony show was on it last legs anyhow.
Because the cash flow dries up if they stop talking.
Irony?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3629719/posts
Record-breaking cold? PyeongChang braces for frigid weather ahead of Olympics
I am frozen just looking at those magazine covers!
The MSM just Piles it Higher and Deeper.. :-)
From now on all Winter Olympics will rotate between the north and south pole.
My, how time flies ... I remember it like it was yesterday.
The snow will melt!
If the skiing, snow boarding, cross country etc gets wiped out no big deal, But if the curling ice gets melted I’m really going to get mad.
LOL!
I can just see the speed skaters wearing roller blades.......
Don't expect we will ever see the Olympics held on Antarctica
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