Climate change: most cities will be too hot to host the Summer Olympics, study shows - TomoNews | Tokyo
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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — A newly published study states that most cities in the world will be too hot to host the summer Olympics in the near future. The list includes Tokyo, which will host the Games in 2020. The prediction, published in medical journal The Lancet, was made based on the wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) readings for cities big enough to hold the Games in the northern hemisphere. The WBGT measures the effect of ambient temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and solar radiation on humans. When the WBGT temperature exceeds 77 degrees Fahrenheit, athletes competing outdoors may begin to experience heat stress. The reason is that high humidity reduces the rate at which perspiration evaporates and cools the body. According to Reuters, scientists predict that cities bid cities for the 2020 Olympics, Istanbul and Madrid, as well as host, Tokyo, will be too hot to host the games in 2085. Contenders for 2024 Summer Olympics, Rome, Paris, Budapest and Los Angeles, would also be unfit to host the games six decades from now. The study concludes that by 2085, only a few cities would have climates suitable for for the summer games. These include Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, Calgary, Vancouver and San Francisco. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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It's time for the UN to build the first super cities at sea. We should take the technology that we have from making rafts and oil rigs and super boats and build a big city in the sea with sky scrapers and farms and zoos and hotels and casinos and top class high class escorts who are disease free and who will let you go bare taw in their lovely muffs for 20 quid extra. We can host the Olympics there permanently and we don't need to worry about poor people as all the shit jobs will be done by robots and everyone who gets to live there will be classy. And then we should nuke Central America.
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most of us will be dead its fine
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Meh, I'll probably be dead by then anyway
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Juneou 2085!!
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2085 Summer Olympics : North pole
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Maybe we can stop having olympics.
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have them in Canada Alaska or Antarctica do i really got to solve everything
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Simple solution actually. Host the Olympics only in locations of suitable temperature. Let the accounting and profits be split like a venture capital corporation. Only the richest countries will sponsor. Sponsorship includes sponsoring any poor country.Olympics will continue to make the rich richer at the expense of the have nots. Sports are more and more of a business nature. Olympics are not altruistic, but should be.
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There's always Canada
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Climate change is fake as fuck
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Absolutely one big pile of excrement! Not surprised at all that it's from Berkeley.
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I doubt it. The most accurate weather report is the one for the next few days. In 4 years things can change.
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all those poor athletes will be too overheated for their orgies. how awful. what-ever can be done?
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thumbs down from science deniers, trump supporters, Xtians, etc LMAO! keep denying it stupid faggots!
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having children is cruel
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the bright side to global warming.
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I wont even be alive. I dont care
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I will be 81 years old in 2085. (I am currently 12)
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2085 we all are dead even if we was born today
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2085? Yeah most of us won't even be alive by that time.