Hockey Fans Take Action to Save their Game from Climate Change
From the Epoch Times in Canada: Hockey Fans Take Action to Save their Game from Climate Change
Hockey fans concerned about the future of outdoor hockey across Canada took to the ice last week to play a game of hockey meant to raise attention about global climate change.
“The ‘Save Hockey, Stop Climate Change Campaign’…is bringing about awareness to the fact that climate change is affecting all sorts of different things, to our food source, to our water source, to our outdoor hockey sports,” says Leah Henderson, one of the event’s organizers.
The impact of global warming on winter sports has long been a topic of discussion by environmentalists and sports enthusiasts alike. The U.S.-based World Resources Institute has warned that global warming is threatening the future of Winter Olympic Games in this century, because it is resulting in “less snow, and shorter and warmer winters.”
A study presented by University of Zurich researchers at the 2003 World Conference on Sport and the Environment in the city playing host to this year’s Winter Games, Turin, reported that the levels of snow falling in lower-lying mountain areas will become increasingly unpredictable and unreliable over the coming decades.
In Turin, environmental activists were hopeful that the first anniversary of the Kyoto treaty be honoured by turning down the gas-hungry Olympic flame, but their request was rejected by the organizers who said the flame might go out completely if was turned down.
The Olympic organizers in Turin have however been praised by some environmentalists for their bid to offset the additional carbon dioxide emissions brought about by the games by investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy schemes.
- DS
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