...and winter sports.
MIKE RICHTER: a champion goalie urges Canada to make a key stop
Mike Richter, three-time Olympian and goalie for the Stanley Cup New York Ranger teams and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, knows the importance of stopping oil sands development:
As a hockey goalie who loves winter sports, it has been hard to watch events canceled in Vancouver because of warm weather and know that if we don’t act now to fight global warming, we may see more and more of this in the Olympic Games of the future. Even skiers and snowboarders could be forced to compete indoors, in artificial climates, on man-made snow.
We can’t seriously combat global warming while getting fuel from the world’s dirtiest source. If we allow Canada’s oil sands project to creep across our border, it will lock our nation into dependence on yet another foreign source of oil, just as our local clean-energy industry is beginning to thrive.
In addition to Mike’s op-ed in the February 24th Minneapolis Star-Tribune, read below for research and news articles demonstrating what’s at stake, and the seriousness of the threat.
REPORTS: winter sports under threat
- On Thin Ice: Winter sports and climate change, David Suzuki Foundation, 2009
- Climate Change and Winter Sports: Environmental and Economic Threats, Bürki, Elsasser, Abegg IOC/UNEP, 2003
NEWS: global warming and winter sports
- Colorado: Warming melts winter fun, msnbc, 2/3/2010
- Alpine ski resorts told to go green to stay white, Deutsche Welle, 1/25/2010
- Ski property faces meltdown as global warming chills the market, guardian.co.uk, 1/17/2010
- Winter sports at risk due to cliamte change: message delivered to Prime Minister Harper, Vancouver Environmental News Examiner, 12/9/2009
- Climate change hurts winter sports, maple syrup and fishing industries (to name a few), ecosalon.com, 6/18/2009
- Global warming could melt winter sport industry: report, cbc.ca, 3/30/2009
- Global warming could cripple winter sports in B.C.: report, Vancouver Sun, 3/29/2009
- Winter sports in a warming world, Environmental Leader, 1/17/2008
- Ski resorts are reinventing themselves in the fact of global warmining, E Magazine/Alternet, 1/14/2008
- Degree of difficulty: Global warming threatens viability of Aspen’s famed ski resort, msnbc, 2/27/2007
- Global warming sends a chill through winter sports, International Herald Tribune, 11/16/2006
- Many ski resorts heading downhill as a result of global warming, UNEP, 12/3/2003
NEWS: 2010 Winter Olympics too warm
- Winter Games a misnomer due to Vancouver weather, Chicago Sun-Times, 2/15/2010
- Alpine schedule is washed out again, Los Angeles Times, 2/15/2010
- Olympics: Whistler’s warm weather slows skiers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/15/2010
- Snowboarding tickets ripped up after downpours, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 2/15/2010
- Whistler’s weather generates frustration at Winter Olympics, Washington Post, 2/15/2010
- Skiing left to Mother Nature’s mercy, Agence France-Presse/CTV, 2/14/2010
- Puddle-jumping the new spectator sport at Olympics as weather goes south, Canadian Press, 2/14/2010
- Heavy rains force Olympic officials to close part of spectator area at Cypress, Canadian Press, 2/14/2010
- Winter Olympics: Bad weather causes more problems, Deseret News, 2/14/2010
- Olympic Winter Games men’s downhill postponed, Fox Sports (Australia), 2/14/2010
- Weather delays again turn Olympic skiing into an uphill battle, Los Angeles Times, 2/14/2010
- Snowboarders report poor half-pipe condition, New York Times, 2/14/2010
- Weather takes center stage at Whistler, SkipressWorld, 2/14/2010
- Skiing a washout at Games today as rain continues to fall, Toronto Star, 2/14/2010
- Weather delays men’s downhill race, Cleveland Leader, 2/13/2010
- Beyond what’s soggy and sad, Ski Racing 2/13/2010 (?)
- Winter Olympics 2010 – Cypress Mountain’s Battle Against Nature, Bet US, 2/12/2010
- Too little snow, too much fog at games, Business Day (South Africa), 2/12/2010
- How Vancouver can hold a Winter Olympics with no snow, Christian Science Monitor, 2/12/2010
- Vancouver 2010 to be warmest Winter Olympics yet, National Geographic, 2/12/2010
- Weather worries in Vancouver, Ottawa Citizen/Canwest, 2/12/2010
- We’re here… but the snow isn’t, PhillyBurbs.com, 2/12/2010
- Snow, rain and fog cause Olympic headaches, Times of India, 2/12/2010
- Whistler weather woes create Alpine waiting game, SportsIllustrated.com, 2/12/2010
- Warm, wet weather adds new elements of danger on snowboard-cross track, Winnipeg Free Press, 2/12/2010
- It’s raining on Vancouver’s, and Canada’s, Olympic parade, USA Today, 2/12/2010
- Soggy weather greets visitors in 2010 host city, CTV News, 2/11/2010
- Vancouver-bound? Don’t forget your umbrella, Metro Canada, 2/11/2010
- Winter Olympics turning into the Great White Warm, Seattle Times, 2/11/2010
- Olympics super-combined Alpine ski race postponed, Voice of America, 2/11/2010
- Men’s Alpine course at Whistler injected with water to harden surface as Winter Games near, Associated Press/Canadian Press, 2/10/2010
- No snow in Vancouver: Winter Olympics in trouble?, Peter Greenberg Worldwide, 2/10/2010
- Winter missing as Games approach, Associated Press, 2/7/2010
- Vancouver forced to import snow for Winter Olympics, Planet Green, 1/29/2010
- Vancouver Olympics just need one thing: snow, ABC News, 1/26/2010
- Welcome to the global warming games. (This is no snow job), Vancouver Sun, 1/23/2010
- Uphill battle, North Shore News, 1/22/2010
- No snow for the olympics? Time to call the doctor, Vancouver Sun, 1/22/2010
- As the Olympics near, they’re ordering snow, New York Times, 1/21/2010
- ‘Let it snow’ becomes Vanoc’s mantra, Vancouver Sun, 1/21/2010
- No snow at Olympic site leaves VANOC scrambling, cbc.ca, 1/20/2010
- WRI warns global warming endangers future Winter Olympics, World Resources Institute, 2/18/2002
