Day by day Dot: Cheering On Winter (Games)

Dear Reader,

In the autumn of 1986, when Dot attended a college in France, classmates and I rented a automobile with a unexpectedly conceived plan to drive to Switzerland to ski. The journey was harrowing. At one level, we needed to cease in a small village and have chains put in on our tires to scale back the chance of sliding off the icy roads that edged northern Italian mountains. We collectively exhaled in aid after we arrived at Verbier 4 Vallées in a single piece.

Our jubilation was shortly quashed. This storied Swiss ski resort was … snowless. Well, not fully, however sufficient that the British Ski Team (with whom we shared a pint or two in a pub) was being despatched dwelling the following day. 

The subsequent day on the slopes, we skied round rocks protruding from a skinny layer of snow and ice. Dodging such hazards as we whizzed downhill felt at the least as death-defying as our drive.

At the time, a snowless winter in Switzerland appeared inconceivable. But, with the Winter Olympic Games closing yesterday, it’s price contemplating the rising problem of internet hosting winter sports activities on a warming planet.

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Numerous researchers have been doing precisely that, coming up with potential solutions to keep the Games going, together with limiting host cities to simply over a handful of “climate-reliable” international locations, or transferring the Games up by two or three weeks. 

After all, of 93 mountain areas with the infrastructure to host Olympic winter video games, simply 52 are anticipated to have the mandatory snow depth and frigid temps by the 2050s. This yr’s host metropolis, Cortina, Italy, has warmed 3.6°C because it final hosted the video games in 1956. 

While Dot loves cheering for winter Olympics athletes, what I’d actually cheer for could be a worldwide dedication to slowing world warming. Let’s be part of forces with others to make it occur with Protect Our Winters. 

Athletically,

Dot

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