And I was so looking forward to seeing Gavin Schmidt on the USA Olympic Hockey Team when they try to beat the Canadian.
From Reuters: Olympics-2016 Games could be the last, says Tokyo governor
COPENHAGEN, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.
Tokyo is bidding to host the 2016 summer Olympics with Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid also in the running. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning candidate during its session on Oct. 2 in the Danish capital.
“It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind,” Ishihara told reporters at a Tokyo 2016 press event ahead of the vote.
“Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long.
“Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return,” said Ishihara.
Tokyo has put considerable emphasis on staging a green Games with the planned Olympic stadium the first to be fully powered by renewable energy, including solar power.
“Tokyo is prepared to do everything to create the best conditions for the athletes,” he said.
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Getting a carbon emissions treaty means the sale of lot of new nuclear stations.[ doubling the number of world reactors] Japan is a major builder and supplier here. Scare mongering continues at full speed prior to Copenhagen. They are all preparing the way for a World wide carbon tax. France already is planning a carbon tax for next year . The public needs to be scared first to accept the tax whether direct or indirect[cap and trade] .Just follow the money.All this has very little to do with global warming which will be cooling.
—-And things get better. Last evening and this morning I heard two ‘talking heads’ suggest that the awful earthquakes and the tsunami suffered in the Pacific might be due to global warming…
Whatever Ishihara is drinking….i’ll have a pint!
Rocky (08:30:34) :
Perhaps he was referring to the “no return point” of thetoric.
All activities carry on as normal apart from the olympic games.
I’ll join in and take the day off tomorrow and go and do some shopping instead because of global warming.
What a difference a couple of decades makes. In October 1991 temperatures were over 100 degrees and the Oakland hills erupted in fire. Monday is currently forecast to reach only the upper 60’s with low temperatures in the mid 30’s.
But how are the AGW swindlers able to turn a 1-degree/century change in temperatures into catastrophe?
A quick check on NOAA’s NCDC shows a CONUS trend of 1.3 degrees F between 1910 and 2009 over the most recent 12-month (September through August) period with the most recent sample (Sept 08 – August 09) only 0.5F above the 1901-2001 average for the period.
Where’s the hockey stick? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering hockey stick!
This is so ridiculous to say that the world will end after 2016 because of global warming.
Everyone knows that it will end in 2012 because of the Mayan Prophecies.
Are we sure it isn’t because there can’t be international competition after there is a one world government? And the plan is to have that by 2020.
“So the planet gets “warmer” and the seas rise,(maybe measurably), the rain patterns shift (maybe) so people start farming with different crops in different areas, more food is grown so there is more to eat, and becuse of all this, we can’t hold the olympics? I’m not seeing the correlation here. Little help please??” – Matt in Wyoming (08:25:39) :
Sure, I’ll help. There won’t be any more land because of massive sea rise (maybe) and flooding (maybe). But we should still be able to have the swim competitions (maybe).
Not really, because it isn’t really about CO2, it is about controlling energy production … period.
If you develop more nuclear energy in the EU, you are assigned “carbon equivalent” points for your energy production so that it is regulated right along with the carbon-based energy production. So, you see, it isn’t really about reducing CO2 at all. It is about creating an irrational fear of CO2 in the minds of the people and using that to regular whatever you wish to regulate.
Japan used to be such a button-down place. Now they have PM’s who’ve flown in flying saucers, governors threatening the world with destruction if they lose their olympics bid… sounds more like California politicians than Japanese, frankly.
I want Rio to get the nod for 2016, and introduce footvolley as the new olympic sport.
Duncan:
I just got back last week. The whole side of the old Meridien is a billboard lobbying for 2016
Footvolley would be an awesome Olympic sport, certainly makes more sense than Ice Dancing.
Well, will it be missed that much, it’s an awful lot of money down the drain for a fortnight’s hopping, skipping, & jumping, all that CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by man, & woman (for the sake of equal opportunities), all having a group hug. I suppose a small nuclear reactor nearby would suffice, although it won’t be a British one, we very cleverly got rid of all our one time world leading expertise on nuclear energy (to Japan) under a new strategic plan for energy self-sufficiency in a low carbon economy, we’re going to have lots of lovely wind mills, trouble is I can’t quite see how it’s going to work.
AND just “witch” scientists have said we’ve passed what particular point of no return on the way to where precisely? I won”t bother ordering any logs this winter, it’s going to be “as mild if not milder than previous years”, the Met Office said so, although they do say there’s a 1 in 7 chance of a cold spell! Therefore it is going to be warm yet it could also be cold so whatever happens we told you it might happen so therefore we were right! They needed a £32M computer to tell us this?
Robert van der Veeke (08:38:06) :
Shintaro Ishihara is everything but politically correct. In fact it is a far right wing nutcase.
At first I was on the side of conservationists but by the time they’d finished singing I’d oiled up the chain saw and bought a ticket to Tokyo.
If there is a world war, there will not even be a 2016 Olympics. Instead, there will be a whole other type of sport – blood sport by pugilists world wide. Interesting how some people want to worry about supposed AGW when there are truly deadly threats no one seems to want to talk about.
Armies of Neville Chamberlains, stretched across the Free World. Blabbing, bantering and barking up forests of wrong trees (some of them with hockey stickish strip bark).
If the sea level rise is all that the scary scenarios predict, they could still hold the swimming and diving events, eh?
Maybe the Olympics should be in areas outside of the cities to avoid the heat waves associated with urban sprawl. Just a thought.
It’s much more fashionable though to scare people into surrendering their freedom and liberty to tyrannical bureaucrats.
Where’s Tokyoboy?
Much as I’d like to have my old hometown win, I’m rooting for Rio. There’s never been an Olympics south of the equator.
And the citizens of Illinois will be paying for a Chicago win for the next thirty years.
MattB (08:56:20) : “Are we sure it isn’t because there can’t be international competition after there is a one world government? And the plan is to have that by 2020.”
Hmm. Good point.
By far the biggest “footprint” would have to be getting there. 11,000 athletes plus trainers, country entourages, spectators, and media travel from around the world to the Games. Beijing traffic was estimated at 500-800 K by various sources. This equates to about a million tons of CO2 just in travel, which is equivalent of running a 500 MW Coal fired power plant flat out for 2 months.
The next footprint contributor would almost certainly be the venue construction (concrete, etc.). Operations would be a distant place since the event takes place for only a couple weeks (so much for 2 weeks of solar power).
So based on that, what’s the “greenest” Olympic sport?
1. Sailing. Probably live by the ocean and can get to Rio, Tokyo, or even Chicago by water. In those small boats, truly everyone arriving would be a winner. What spirit.
2. Cycling and Triathlon. These guys can ride to the games pretty much and train in the process. Maybe they can hitch a ride with the sailors on the over-water legs.
3. Rowing or Canoeing. A bit harder than sailing and not much freeboard. But it’s all about green right?
4. All Swimming events. Ever see that Michael Phelps ad where he Butterflies across the Atlantic? I’m sure those water polo guys can make it and think of the synchronized teams’ trips! Oh my. Cover that from the air!
5. Equestrian. Almost the greenest, but the grass-eating, methane-poopin’ animals spoil it.
6. Runners. A long way for the sprinters. Especially easy for those speed walkers.
Let’s really get GREEN Olympic Committee, drop weightlifing, walk there or cancel the Games in the name of saving humanity.
Sonya Porter (08:48:42) :
—-And things get better. Last evening and this morning I heard two ‘talking heads’ suggest that the awful earthquakes and the tsunami suffered in the Pacific might be due to global warming…
[Sarkasm] You see, Global Warming makes the earth expand, because warm things expand. This means the day-side of the globe gets closer to the sun. Which means it gets even warmer, which causes more expansion and so on until a tipping point is reached and we all die. Earthquakes, tsunamis and so on are a sign of this and will get much worse than we thought. [/Sarkasm]
The lack of natural sciences education is what fuels this stupidity.
If the experience here in British Columbia is any kind of indicator, the Olympics could well die off, not owing to climate change but rather to economics. We are hosting the 2010 Winter Games and it is crippling our economy. The government is slashing budgets to just about every agency to pay for the games. Why any city/state/country would want to pay billions of dollars to host a short term event is beyond me.
What about the shot put and the hammer throw!
You ain’t seen nothin yet.
GoreGoogoo:
“Gore and Google: Pants on Fire
Earth’s self-anointed global warming czar, Al Gore, has teamed up with his business partners at Google (he’s an Advisory Board member) to make the latest pitch for a planet that is about to burst into a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Together they have created an internet video which heralds Google’s entrance into the world of climate forecasting.
The video champions Google’s new mapping tool which simulates a 3D map of the world predicting the effects of climate change through the year 2100.
They claim their data is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Google, the mapping tool was introduced in partnership with the Danish Government ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention in December.
In otherwords, this is a visual ruse to scare the hell of out of the uninformed masses”
“Read more at americanthinker.com”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352612/posts
@ur momisugly Mike McMillan: Much as I’d like to have my old hometown win, I’m rooting for Rio. There’s never been an Olympics south of the equator.
I guess Syndey doesn’t count, huh?
John Nicklin (10:42:16) :
If the experience here in British Columbia is any kind of indicator, the Olympics could well die off, not owing to climate change but rather to economics. We are hosting the 2010 Winter Games and it is crippling our economy. The government is slashing budgets to just about every agency to pay for the games. Why any city/state/country would want to pay billions of dollars to host a short term event is beyond me.
I wanna watch my cousin race. Of course there isn’t ice?
“consider myself very fortunate to be able to do what I love to do.
To all the fans, thank you for cheering me on.”
Cindy
‘Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.’
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
http://www.cindyklassen.com/
On another note, my daughter missed the China olympics she didn’t quite qualify for the heptathlon. I have hosted the American trials for sailing as a harbormaster. Talk about a green event.
Ooops. The plastics and fibers are great sources of polution. It will soon be extremely difficult to get a permit to build FRP sailboats. Even using vacum bag methods.