Winter Olympic Sites Are Melting Away because of Climate Crisis

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February 16, 2022

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Olympics Has 100 Percent Fake Snow--Here's The Science of How It Gets Made Artificial snow can affect the performance of skiers and snowboarders By Peter Veals,The Conversation US | February 2022

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Part of the question of the viability of places to hold the Winter Olympics in the future is not necessarily whether they have the conditions where snow will naturally fall but whether they have conditions to allow for some of the artificial snowmaking." Daniel Scott, climate scientist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario

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