[JH] A new joint study from Canadian and Austrian researchers says that amid climate change, only 11 of the previous 19 sites for Winter Olympics could host the Games in the coming decades. Sochi, which hosts next months Games in Russia, would not have made the cut by around 2050. “We went from all 19 cities being ‘climate reliable’ today, even Vancouver and Sochi, to going down to 11 of them,” said Waterloo Prof. Daniel Scott, lead author of the study and Canada Research Chair in Change and Global Tourism. “The number was almost cut in half by mid-century.”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:08:03 +0000