Bloomberg writer Jessica Shankleman is willing to push global warming silliness up another notch with “politically correct” nonsense that Olympic Records Won’t Come Easy in Rio Because of Climate Change.
Athletes at the Olympic Games may struggle to break world records as they compete with Brazil’s rising temperatures caused by climate change.
Marathon runners, swimmers, volleyball players and even soccer referees will succumb to extreme heat and lose concentration during the games, in some cases risking their lives to heatstroke, according to a report released Monday by Observatorio do Clima, a Brazilian civil society group.
“Because of warming, sport will never be the same again,” the report said. Brazil heated up faster than the global average, warming 1 degrees Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last 54 years, and four cities smashed new heat records in 2015, according to the report. If countries don’t deliver on goals to limit global temperature rises to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, 12 Brazilian cities may have to limit play in similar games by the end of the decade, it said.
Even though the games are taking place during Brazil’s winter, the heat may still impede performance, particularly in the marathon where Olympic records have only been broken in temperatures below 12 degrees Celsius. Runners perform best between 8 degrees and 11 degrees, well below the level expected this month in Brazil, it said.
The heat is likely to be particularly painful for athletes from colder climates, says Brazilian tennis player Fernando Meligeni. He reckons European players won’t be used to the humidity, which will make them sweat more than usual.
Math Lesson for Jessica
The alleged ideal temperate range is 8-11. That’s a range of four degrees.
The stated assumption is that global warming pushed up temperatures by 1 degree in Brazil, faster than average.
This process took 54 years (assuming of course it happened, and global warming is to blame).
If the range 8-11 is “well below” expected temperatures, the problem (assuming there is a problem) isn’t global warming, it’s picking the summer Olympics in a place too likely to be too hot and too humid.
The article shows the ridiculous lengths writers and editors are willing to go to promote their social agendas.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
These are the same news outlets that are owned by the deep state and synchronize their anti Trump messages daily.
She should look at a map sometime. It is only 23 degrees latitude from the equator.
…….last time I checked Equator => HOT
She can’t read a map in the mushroom farm she is enslaved in – if she knows what a map is that is……
Hey, Gore… Where’d you find all that info on global warming?
http://www.petitionproject.org/
https://mindbodyspiritualawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/head-up-your-ass.jpg
Unfortunately, the majority of people believe whatever the read in the media and the internet. Today it is almost the same temperature in Rio as in London. A pleasant low 20s celsius.
The women’s world record for the marathon was set in London by Paula Radcliffe who later had to retire from the Beijing marathon due to poor preparation for the higher temperature and humidity in the Chinese capital.
Of course world temperatures have risen over the past 50 and indeed 200 years as the planet emerged from the ‘Little Ice Age’ when the Thames froze on a regular basis.
Let’s hope the Sun continues its 500 year cycle and the planet warms a little more. Humans and other fauna do far better when it is warmer with more rain and less desert.
We are in an ice age and an interglacial period in that ice age. If the interglacial ends there will be reason to become concerned about real issues such as over population as cooling reduces rainfall and increases desertification effecting food production.
If CO2 emissions cause a greenhouse effect (this is unlikely as there is little evidence and any effect is more likely the result of cloud formation; after all water vapour constitute 1% of the atmospheric gases as opposed to CO2 at 0.06%), we should applaud it as it might delay the end of the interglacial. Let’s go burn everything we can find, which is not nailed down and produce as much CO2 as possible.
This will have no effect at all on global temperature but might make some people who never take the trouble to check the facts behind ridiculous articles like this and carbon credit scams, feel better. Unlike the animals whose environment is ruined by palm oil cultivation.
They have nothing out of the norm and the MSM is straining to put out a narrative supporting another tax scheme, so now they have to make up a bullshit story.
Come on Mish.
She gets paid to blow the AGW horn.
Working girls gotta earn a living.
You make it sound like she’s a whore for the Great Climate Change Scam!
(as if the climate has not always been changing over time)
BTW when you look deep in the “data”, even the Chicken Littles admit that all the efforts to ruin the world’s economy to combat climate change will have hardly any effect.
Mayday, Mayday… Global Warming research ship, Mayday, Mayday… Anyone out there?
http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Journalism/2014/01/02/stuck.jpg
Actually the Russians are pretty much “not on board” the Great Climate Change Scam ship.
I never thought I would see the day when I would start respecting the Russian government more than my own.
Russia follows a different oligarch crowd… Global waming is a US – UN – Europe oligarch creation. I wish they’d cancel each other out, The world would do much better without them.
I would say the climate Nazi’s from Google make it difficult to even copy and past things like this from a mobile device. Just dealt with it. Unreal what steps are being taken to truncate any other messages on climate that don’t meet the agenda. Let’s see, facebook, twitter, google, all control the filtered message now days, no? It was news until it wasn’t.
Resistance is not futile. Just sayin,,,,,,,,,
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/07/sporting-news-buzzkill-global-warming-message-had-no-place-at-rio-olympics/
I doubt it can be argued that it is a “Social Agenda. It is a little more important than that. That is just silliness. It seems you attract the attention of people who say things such as “Today it is almost the same temperature in Rio as in London”, “deep state”, blather on about the “Little Ice Age” and seem to have little understanding of the science whatsoever. With your background you should have an understanding Mr. Mish and not be in the same camp as dunderheads such as Mr. Inhofe and his snowball.
We are almost certainly on course for a 4 degree rise. Shame on you man.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11633745/Fossil-industry-faces-a-perfect-political-and-technological-storm.html
It is surprising that a qualified engineer can claim that it is not happening, purely for what appear to be ideological reasons. A group of middle aged Western conservative males continuing to push back against the climate problems and immense costs we all face is a little disgraceful and even dangerous.
We are almost certainly on course for a 4 degree rise. Shame on you man.
You have no idea what we are on course for, if man is to blame. More importantly it is absurd to think governments can fix the problem, if there is a problem.
Most important of all, please dispute my basic math. If temperatures in Brazil rose 1 degree in 54 years. and The Olympics are too hot my many degrees (whatever “well under” means), then how the hell can Brazil be pinned on global warming. The article is absurd, and I attacked it that way on purpose, to avoid the global warming nutcases. But as expected, they found me anyway.
Mish
Only in the United States is global warming called a “theory” and disputed. This is the same country that teaches creationism in its schools. You are a very backward country… C.T. Golightly, you are whispering in a giant echo chamber here…..no one will hear you. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. It is willfull ignorance
Manmade global warming is one of the biggest hoaxes ever – right up there with creationism.
Climate has been changing for hundreds of millions of years, ice ages have come and gone. The key line is millions of years. Now based on data from the last 100 years, much of it manipulated to produce desired results, the models actually proved there was global cooling. OOps. No problem, they changed the model. Even assuming it exists, the idea that politicians will do something sensible about it is idiotic. It’s nothing but a big scam.
I can tell you what we are on course for Mish………exactly what we would be on course for if humans did not exist.
Notice how this “progressive” makes his argument:
Western conservative => he means white
Middle aged => he means “old”
They really can not leave their Stalinist paths as hard as they try they can not help but try to dehumanize. Never mind that in reality western culture is so rich that it has made it a target for robbery for those of Golightly’s ilk. Never mind that old means experience and not the emotionally unstable that typify youth.
Glo-bull warming is a scam and a power grab. I’m an engineer / scientist and I can tell you MMGW is not science. Those who say otherwise are shunning the scientific method in most instances.
Stated like a true brain dead cultural marxist who got his scence degree on the internet… 🙂
“A group of middle aged Western conservative males continuing to push back against the climate problems and immense costs we all face is a little disgraceful and even dangerous.”
Climate has always been a problem. It is always going to be a problem. Climate has never been static. Just a look at a chart of estimated historical temperatures during the period since the last Ice Age, will prove that. The Minoan was up to 4 degrees C warmer than it is now. The temperature has zig zagged up and down all during the Holocene.
What is disgraceful is the Leftist Agenda climate hysteria. It is way over blown for the purpose of a global socialist political agenda, not science.
Put 200k fish species into a swimming pool. Then measure the behavior of just 5 – 10 of them. Then establish a number of scenarios about how long are they going to live, how much food will they have in the next two centuries, how many of them will eat each other, how many of them will get sick etc. etc. Then -and that is the key- make those scenarios dependent on a number of smart parameters that *you* control.
Now, based on the (poorly) measured behavior of those 5-10 fish and the host of subjective parameter-controlled scenarios, you conclude that the number of cods in the swimming pool will be really alarming by 2250. Actually, it is already rising even as we speak!
If I were a sardine grower, I would be really grateful that you urged the world to drastically reduce the number of codfish. And if I also controlled the renowned SNN (Sardine News Network) I might even lend you a hand with your cod-reducing campaign.
Shaking my head
The Olympics have become so politicized I don’t even watch them anymore – summer or winter. I watched the winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City several years back and the judges rigged the system in favor of the western nations. That was enough for me. Very sad. It used to be a great event when nations would come together in healthy competition with fair referees and judges. Not anymore. Today it’s all about oneupmanship.
The PTB have ruined everything that used to be fun and bring entertainment. The young people in this society have no idea of what integrity is any more. I guess they can read about it in the history books until they revise it.
Personally, I barely remember the gentleman’s handshake that used to be his word. Today you have to bring a lawyer along to write up a contract on who buys the coffee. They’ve taken a beaufiful thing and turned it into manure.
At the gym they had the Olympics on the big screen while I was on the stairmaster. I watched Croatia (4 million population) beat the USA (330 million population) by 2 points. ha. My only guess was that nepotism is so rampant in the selection of US Olympic athletes that the quality has plummeted.
Carlin really did nail it when he spoke of the “big club”.
Zikalympics?
I’m shocked that they have not blamed Zika Virus on Climate Change yet.
(don’t pass that idea to TPB)
I meant TPTB. I miss being able to edit my comments!
Part of “the big club” plan is to fill the airwaves, and print with distracting articles to cover up what is really happening that’s meaningful. This is carefully timed. Here’s something they don’t like the average voter to know:
“With a multimillion-dollar commitment from liberal mega-donor George Soros, Elias is challenging laws that, he argues, diminish the impact of important Democratic Party constituencies of African Americans, Latinos and young people”.
Kinda funny how it ended up in The Washington Post ebing the Jeff Bezos owns it and bezos is an avid Trump hater.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/the-crusade-of-a-democratic-super-lawyer-with-multimillion-dollar-backing/2016/08/07/2c1b408c-5a54-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html
“They’ve taken a beaufiful thing and turned it into manure.”
Uh…say what now?
You just insulted manure, which in and of itself is a beautiful thing, and useful too. Remember that next time you are stuffing your face full of food.
The olympics have been UNWATCHABLE for a few decades due to all the commercials.
And for some reason there is an emphasis on boring sports like beach volleyball, indoor volleyball, archery and horse jumping. The horse should get the medal. I might tune in for the 30 minutes NBC will show track and field. That and wrestling are the only sports the Greeks did when they invented this.
How much television coverage does volleyball get at any other time?
Buddy of mine played on the national volley ball team for Canada. He says it’s turned into a freak show with players standing over the net blocking the ball with their faces. Like so much else of our world old rules not keeping up with our times.
It’s a wonder no one has thought to blame “climate change” as the reason all the Central Bunk, er Bank stimuli have unexpectedly failed to work. I mean, there can be no other rational explanation, can there?
Meanwhile there are real actual, you know, problems developing that get zero press. The number of species of invertabrates (insects) on our planet is half what it was fifty years ago. Half. Anybody care? UN? Bloomberg? Goldman Sachs? Can’t buy vanished species tax credits or push for a global tax suthority like you can with AGW and carbon credits so nah. No interest there. Let the bugs die. Who needs a diverse ecosystem anyway.
I have not noticed fewer mosquitos, horse flies, deer flies, gnats, black flies and ticks when I visit northern Michigan. Darn! There are probably just fewer in the more populated areas, where there are more people to swat them.
I notice that they are setting new world records in swimming in nearly every race, LOL…what a nitwit this woman is….
If the USA does not win the most Golds I suspect the media will blame Trump for it.
And 75% of those who still bother to read the mainstream press or watch their news broadcasts will believe them.
In a nation that put a man on the moon.
What a long fall from grace.
The Great Barrier Reef in Northern Australia has been undergoing severe ‘coral bleaching’ over the last 3 years. Green groups and MSM blame global warming and the burning of fossil fuels that is causing the Reefs destruction.
There has been zero commentary that the numerous volcanic blasts in Indonesia over the same period with the resulting sulphur ash clouds that blew for thousands of kilometres to the east and over the northern section of the reef where the bleaching started to occur may be the cause.
These ash clouds that have resulted from the blasts over the last 3 years did shut down aviation regularly in the region for days on end.
I still find it strange that none if these facts has ever entered the debate as to what is destroying the north section of the Great Barrier Reef.
@Michael
A Australian scientist used satellites using chemical analysis cameras to photograph the Northern Great Barrier reef and discovered that farm runoff was killing the reef. Several rivers meet the ocean there and clearly the fertilizers and insecticides could be seen running into the reef.
Where the runoff was most concentrated the reef was bleaching. Of course this does not go with the view of global warming doing this. You can indeed goggle it still.
Strange? Really?
I think you mean predictable.
These media people know what works career wise.
Nobody has to sit in a smokey room and tell them the facts of life.
They just pick up the vibe and run with whatever is good for their career.
I usually watch the opening ceremony of the country hosting the Olympics. I turned it off after they started the global warming crap as part of the ceremony. I almost turned it off after the racial divide show right before it.
Too bad politicians have taken over the Olympics. The opening ceremony was a joke to be honest and really had nothing to do with Brazil with the exception of a model walking across the field. What a joke.
All the government wants to do is make you pay for the air that you breath. The carbon credits have nothing to do with cleaning up pollution, after all companies pay pass the cost onto the customers and continue to pollute. Another scam for all the tree huggers to enjoy.
“All the government wants to do is make you pay for the air that you breath.”
Long long ago a class of people learned that stealing and calling it government was very lucrative.
They’re still going strong.
I have to cut my grass every week because of global warming. I will be glad when it gets straightened out so I can quit cutting my grass. That makes about as much sense as that article on the olympics.
I thought this scam was already played out. Hasn’t Al Gore already made enough off his scare tactics?
_aleph_
“Marathon runners, swimmers, volleyball players and even soccer referees will succumb to extreme heat and lose concentration during the games…”
It was 74 degrees at the outdoor pool where diving competition was taking place, according to NBC.
Eastern Russia, Siberia, has 5 million square miles of frozen, otherwise productive land.
Northern Canada is 3 million square miles of frozen, otherwise productive land.
Brazil is the largest country in the southern hemisphere with 3 million square miles total.
I’ll trade $3 for $8 any day of the week.