(Wow. It sure is easy to make Climate Change stuff up. I suppose I’m now eligible for a Nobel Prize.)
Posted on 01/26/2022 4:51:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
London (AFP) – Climate change is threatening the future of the Winter Olympics, reducing the number of suitable venues for the event around the globe, a report warned ahead of the Beijing Games.
The Olympics in China, which start on February 4, will be the first Winter Games to rely almost 100 percent on artificial snow, according to the study.
The authors say it is an energy and water-intensive process frequently using chemicals to slow melt, but also delivers a surface that many competitors say is unpredictable and potentially dangerous.
"The risk is clear -- man-made warming is threatening the long-term future of winter sports," the report says. "It is also reducing the number of climatically suitable host venues for the Winter Olympiad."
"The 2022 Winter Olympics will, no doubt, be an awesome spectacle –- watched and enjoyed by millions worldwide," it adds.
"But they should also provoke a debate about the future of snow sports, and the limits of engineering artificial natural environments. Slippery slopes lie ahead."
Of the 21 venues used for the Winter Games since Chamonix 1924, scientists believe that by 2050 only 10 will have the "climate suitability" and natural snowfall levels to host an event.
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but what will become of male womens ice skating or male womens skiing? world records must be shattered
CCP virus Karma comes boomeranging back on their shithole nation/
If that’s it takes to kill the uber corrupt International Olympic Committee and the games, I’m all in. Perhaps I should let my cars idle in the driveway for an extra couple of hours to help the cause. Maybe I might take some old tires over to Seattle to one of the big drug addicts campgrounds for them to burn for heat in their burn barrels, that should be good for a degree or two.
Just have the winter olympics at the South Pole from now on.
(rolls eyes)
(Wow. It sure is easy to make Climate Change stuff up. I suppose I’m now eligible for a Nobel Prize.)
My vote is for Mars ...
They picked venues that receive no natural snow. “Climate change” had nothing to do with it but now they get to talk about it ad nauseum. How convenient.
Who watches the Winter Coronolympics anyway? So not everything about Global Warming is bad.
Maybe they need the artificial snow because it’s one of the dumbest places to hold a Winter Olympics.
Is there anything left that isn’t threatened by climate change?
Get rid of the Winter Olympics.
I don’t think we’re going to see a gold medal in the men’s downhill awarded to a competitor from Somalia anytime soon.
Big government.
I don’t mean to brag but as I write this it is -16 degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis. Have it here, but mandate no carjackings.
Good.
The dreaded “climate change” strikes again!
Chuckle.
How did the last ICE AGE END? That was thousands of years ago.
There were no automobiles, no factories, no coal mining. All there was cave man burning twigs if you could get the fire started with his flint stones.
Duh...it was the cycle of the might Sun which is million times bigger than puny earth. And humans are so puny compared to even the puny earth, astronauts circling the earth can barely see any man made objects during the day.
#15 The looters will steal the bobsleds.
Or is that bob the sleds?
I’m pretty sure I heard the same thing 25 years ago (I write as I’m sitting here in 2’ of snow looking at -20f tonight)
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