Posted on 02/04/2022 7:52:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING (AP) — The ice rinks that play host to figure skating and speedskating competitions at the Beijing Olympics will also be putting a major environmental problem on the world stage — the potent greenhouse gases often lurking in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling systems.
Four newly built rinks at the Games will use alternative carbon dioxide cooling systems with far less of an impact on global warming than the artificial refrigerants used in such appliances, though other rinks will still use such refrigerants.
The change at select Olympic venues comes as athletes worry that global warming is endangering winter sports and increasing the need for human-made snow, which requires huge amounts of water and energy to produce.
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Or not.
Time to get rid of, to ban, to destroy all forms of refrigeration, else the seas will rise and every one will drown. Its for the Children!!!
The good news is that low cost sustainable coal burning electric power is used to run all this equipment!
Just cancel the Olympics. It’s become too commercial and PC.
These effer’s won’t be happy until all of US are in mud huts or caves and totally defenseless.
Funny you should post this. Because just the other day I was looking at a frozen lake, and I was thinking, “I wonder if my refrigerator is making Greta Thunberg upset.”
So, the corrupt Olympics group is playing in the most unfree country in the world and the press is worried about what?
No wonder that all those clowns could get were silly little journalism degrees. What else could they do? Oh, forgot, they could be DemocRATs. No, wait.....
Stop Climate Change Now! Join the international movement to keep climate constant!
My Dad used to tell us about the guy who delivered blocks of ice to the house for their “ice box”. I’m thinking it was circa 1920 back in Cleveland.
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah....... man’s co2 still,only amounts to just 0.00136% of the atmosphere- nowhere near enough to blanket the globe, trapping heat and causing damage - so,yeah, not very potent after all is it?
The left are waging a hostile,war on everything that makes life enjoyable.
How miserable a person does one have to be to wage a war on refrigeration of all things? What an ugly soul they must possess
“Time to get rid of, to ban, to destroy all forms of refrigeration...”
Water skating?
Montreal Protocol banned HCFC refrigerants, which were supposed to be causing ozone depletion. At ground level, ozone is a harmful pollutant, but high in the atmosphere, it protects us from harmful UV radiation. When we emit CO2 at ground level, it manages to get higher in the atmosphere to cause global warming. But the ozone we emit at ground level must be reduced because it is a pollutant, and never is mixed with the rest of the atmosphere where is can protect us. Uh Huh. “scientists” say so. Got it.
Yes. Those evil greenhouse gases are lurking under your bed with the bogeyman!
I thought China told the Climate Change Cargo Cultists to go drink their Kool Aid somewhere else.
Maybe they ship all their freon to the US?
Worried about greenhouse emissions
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai probably skewed any data for a solid 5 to 7 years.
Pinatubo before that...
Yes, I look forward to a life of rotting meat and spoiled food.
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