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Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Reminds World That Climate Change Is Very Real
2016-08-06 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The Opening Ceremony at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games may have opened up with a dance party, but it was a video on climate change watched by roughly 3.3 billion that made people stop what they were doing and focus on human-made pollution. The heat is melting the ice cap, a narrator said. Its disappearing very quickly. The video segment highlighted global carbon pollution, with projections of melting ice caps and rising sea levels in places like Amsterdam, Dubai, Florida, Shanghai, Lagos,...
Gilded Games Begin in Gritty Rio
2016-08-06 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The first South American country to host the Olympics is reeling from an astonishing combination of political upheaval and economic crisis. Its efforts to stage the world's biggest sporting event met trouble at every turn, from the Zika virus to polluted waters to budget cuts so deep that basic operations became strained. So the opening ceremony of the Summer Games arrived Friday night as a salve, disguising the wounds for a few hours and letting Brazilians celebrate everything from the waves...
Rio rises to the occasion as Games open with heart and zeal
2016-08-06 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Tribune: In Brazil, the ability to make something out of nothing is so ingrained in the culture that they have an expression for it. "Gambiarra' happens every day in ways large and small, allowing this easygoing society to say: See? We knew all along we could figure it out. Brazil has never needed that talent more than it did on Friday, when it opened the Rio Olympics in a burst of music and color at Maracana Stadium. The Opening Ceremony had been reworked four times as the country's economic meltdown...
Why The Rio Olympics And Leonardo DiCaprio Get Your Attention On Climate Change
2016-08-06 07:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: If you watched the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics Friday evening, social media was buzzing about the bold inclusion of a segment on climate change. The segment highlighted the perils of sea level rise on vulnerable nations and cities and also showed Ed Hawkins compelling visual spiral indicating global warming. I also noticed more activity on my social media platforms from people that normally do not talk about the topic. The overwhelming comments where things like wow, that was a wake up...
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First green, now gold: the climate changes in Rio
2016-08-06 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: Rio de Janeiro's opening ceremony made a virtue of a vice, and a statement of a virtue. The vice was a cut-price budget roughly a tenth of London's four years ago and spare change from Beijing's before that. You would hardly have known it. Brazil's approach was "gambiarra", meaning the peculiarly Brazilian talent to make something out of nothing. Its nearest English equivalent would be "jerry-built" or "jury-rigged". It is useful here for everyone from favella-dwellers to Olympic organising committees,...
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