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Rio Olympics puts climate change front and centre
2016-08-07 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Rio de Janeiro is pitching this Olympics as the "green games", as Friday`s opening ceremony made clear. Ceremony director Fernando Meirelles -- best known for the film City of God -- used one of the biggest international platforms going to raise awareness about climate change. Each of the 11,000 competitors was given a seed to plant, which will create an athletes` forest in the Deodoro zone. "Climate change and the depletion of natural resources need our attention and the Olympic Opening...
Olympics' climate change message sparks conservative backlash
2016-08-06 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Conservative backlash spread on social media after the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics' opening ceremony featured a warning about climate change. The primetime spectacle started with a young boy with a Pau-Brasil tree in the center of the stadium, a rare tree on on the list of Brazils endangered plants. A video then showed a dramatic depiction of Earth and several major cities affected by rising water levels as Antarctic ice sheets rapidly melt. While some were happy the Olympics used its global...
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Opening Of Rio Olympics Ignites Controversy
2016-08-06 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Journalism: The opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Friday featured a video focusing on the controversial issue of climate change. Discussion over whether or not the Olympics were an appropriate forum for political topics like climate change or race relations has been ongoing for months, with former Olympic medalist Caitlin Jenner who was a man known as Bruce Jenner when he won a gold medal in 1976 telling HBOs Bill Simmons absolutely not when asked that...
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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,...
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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