Chinese performers dance during a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag and start of the flag tour for the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 at a section of the Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing on Feb. 27, 2018.
He used the alarming phrase “The Last Winter” to tell the story of what he’s seen firsthand — a winter that’s shrinking. In the U.S. alone, Fox says winter season lengths will likely shorten by 50% over the next 30 years. Snow was trucked and helicoptered into Vancouver for weeks before the Olympics began there in 2010, Fox says. In Sochi, human-made snow was placed on 500,000 cubic meters of real snow that was preserved from previous seasons, he says.
Daniel Scott at the University of Waterloo conducts studies before each winter Olympics — and his most recent one is bleak, Fox notes. By the end of the century, Scott’s study finds only one metropolis out of the 21 cities that have hosted the winter games in the past will be able to hold the games again. That city isThe changing climate has broader existential impacts and global ramifications than just on winter sports like the Olympics.
There’s a glimmer of hope in Scott’s research, Fox points out. If countries were to follow the Paris Climate Accords’ low emission standards, there’s potential for the climate to remain as it is now.
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