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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Maybe, if we are lucky, 2012 will be the last Olympic games. This has become a huge “Potlach” type waste of resources.
>> George S. (08:46:25) :
The stick is dead, long live the stick! <<
The phrase: “The king is dead; long live the king!” doesn’t refer to one individual. If it did, then the phrase doesn’t make any sense. The subjects were shouting their affirmation for the continuity of the monarchy. They were actually saying: “The (old) king is dead; long live the (new) king!” To continue with your use of this analogy, you’re essentially saying: “The (old) stick is dead; long live the (new) stick!” If that’s what you mean, then fine. If you really want the stick dead, then a better analogy would be: “The stick is dead; drive a stake through its heart (so it doesn’t rise again)!”
Jim
El Santo 10:52:07:
“I guess Syndey doesn’t count, huh?”
Nope. Sydney might, though.
Mike Borgelt (13:31:46) :
. . . Or Melbourne in 1956?
More important than the Olympics, Melbourne is hosting the World Science Fiction Society convention next year, beginning of September.
They tend to be chock full of rocket scientists in addition to the usual authors and fans, and they will doubtless have a panel discussion on global warming. The “Worldcon” was in Montréal this year, and I was on the global warming panel (the sole denier) along with an enviro-lobbyist, two writers (one pro, one lukewarm), and the head of National Weather Service’s science planning division (agnostic, just wanted to get the data right).
Here’s the panel blurb in the schedule booklet –
The Pathology of Climate Change Denial
Despite abundant evidence people still
refuse to believe that humans have an
impact on the climate. Why is this? How
might these attitudes be changed? And
what does this say about our attitudes to
science more generally?
Yes, it was a fun panel.
Rio it is!
The 2016 olympic games will be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, congratulations Rio.
My questions is if Chicago is hosting a Summer Games, will it be in appropriate conditions? With current “warming trends” (sarc) should we be introducing the more dramatic long hockey sticks for the field hockey instead of those hooked ones?
On the subject of Tokyo vs Rio – I can’t help but think that 87 hectres of forest removal would not make a Brazilian Govenor blush. ONLY 87 hectares – that would be about 5 minutes work. Cue LOTS of singing and dancing by trees and no doubt the threat of another stern letter to the IOC.
John Silver (13:10:13) :
Fred from Canuckistan . . . (08:26:45) :
…………….
“Hockey, real hockey is in our DNA and some wussy yankee “scientist” hasn’t got a chance.”
You have heard of “The Miracle on Ice”? The 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid? I think the Olympic hockey team from Russia that year remembers it. I’m sure you do too.
Not too bad for us ‘wussy’ yankees.
Care to play a little America football?
David Kitchen (06:40:52) :
It does not make a bit of difference to the accumulation of evidence that points to a significant increase in warming during the past part of the 20th Century.
You are exaggerating David.
The evidence points to very little warming. The temperature change that occurred in the 20th Century was nothing unusual. It has happened before in the history of the world. It was warmer on Earth 1000 years ago than it is now.
And the data shows the earth is now cooling.
Warming and cooling in the earth have always happened. Nothing unusual is going on in climate.
Couldn’t help but notice the prolific amount of hockey sticks in that photo.