Climate Study: By 2085 All U.S. Cities Except San Francisco Will Be Too Hot to Host Summer Olympics | Tokyo
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http://democracynow.org - A new article in the medical journal The Lancet has concluded much of the Northern Hemisphere will be too hot by 2085 to host the Summer Olympics. Researchers are projecting only eight cities in the hemisphere outside of Western Europe would be cool enough to host the Games. This includes just three cities in North America: Calgary, Vancouver and San Francisco. The list of cities where it could be too hot is staggering: Istanbul, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Budapest, Tokyo, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles—and the list goes on. Extreme high temperatures have already impacted the athletic world. In 2007, high heat forced the cancellation of the Chicago Marathon. At this year’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials in Los Angeles, 30 percent of the runners dropped out of the race due to the heat. For more, we speak with Kirk Smith, lead author of the article and professor of global environmental health at the University of California, Berkeley Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: http://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow Daily Email: http://democracynow.org/subscribe Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DemocracyNow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow Tumblr: http://democracynow.tumblr.com Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/democracynow iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554 TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Democracy-Now-p90/ Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/democracy-now
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shouldn't this be on prime time cnn, cbs and fox.
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People whose pictures are grey are likely trolls, possibly the same troll. Don't pay attention to them.
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2085? Robots will decommission nuke plants. Humans will survive underground.
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I worked outdoors 100% of the time. it destroyed my health.
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I for one don't give a damn about the olympics. A bunch of athletes that few have ever heard of. Just another method of subterfuge and selling endless advertising. Who's idea was this anyway? Don't we have enough sports events?
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6:20 ... The guy says we've been holding the Olympics for 2500 years. That's bull. The revival of the Olympiad was in the late 19th century. This guy doesn't know his history.
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we better start controling the people so this climate change stops,,, keep up the good work Amy GOOD MAN .. you sellout evil cunt
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so, Leonardo dicaprio is right or wrong?
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That fool Kirk Smith look like the Lorax yo
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Is there like some secret forum where right-wing trolls lay in waiting for someone to post a link to the latest youtube video reporting the global scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic climate change, so they can swarm en masse and overwhelm the comment section with unscientific bullshit, false claims, and conspiracy theories about the government inventing the idea of global warming to institute control over the economy and increase taxes and other ridiculous unfounded shit?
Cuz it sure seems like it sometimes. -
Climate change is the planet going through it's natural cycles it has gone through in the past. Like many ice ages and global floods.
Global warming is a name made up by corporations and it is the false story made up by corporations that is supposed to scare us.
It is a false story claiming the world is in danger of over heating from burning fuel.
They have faked this story to implement a carbon tax and rape the people of more money.
The company that they get all of their data from won't show anyone the data.
There is allot of science to disprove man made global warming. -
Seems conservatives have caught the scent of this vid and are commenting. Honesty and open discussion is good. But scientific illiteracy, in the face of a complete and thorough scientific consensus on a very important topic that will horribly affect the planet and everything on it in the near future, is, well, not so good
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2:30. He misspoke about the high humidity being a factor in preventing sweating. We sweat profusely while working/exercising in humid conditions. The problem is in the ability to evaporate the sweat so as to cool our bodies. With high humidity the sweat does not evaporate quickly enough, then heat prostration/exhaustion follows.
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No wonder it be so freaking hot outside
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So stupid. Only a liberal would be so concerned about the Summer Olympics.
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When there's nothing left to push because there's nothing left in the headlines which would lend itself to pushing a socialist agenda and a massive redistribution of wealth scheme, just push more ridiculous fear and terror bullshit, right? :-D
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Hasn't he listened to Donald Christ...climate change=Chinaman conspiracy to hurt Murica business..DUH...hippie
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Guess I won't choose to come back then. at. this time period.2085. Probably no oxigen to breath then either,because Trees keep getting cut down. SAVE YOUR TREES!! Think creativly people.
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"By 2085 All U.S. Cities Except San Francisco Will Be Too Hot to Host Summer Olympics"
maybe so....but San Francisco will be unhabitable due to smugness long before 2085 -
This article failed to factor in the smug factor. Studies show that 'Smug' generates at least twice as much greenhouse gases than normal fossil fuel does.
Studies also show that San Fransisco generates at least five times as much smug as normal US cities.
We need to put a cap on smug emissions!