Not a good way to get people to listen to you. From Sporting News:
Global warming message had no place at Rio Olympics' opening ceremony
The organizers of the Opening Ceremony of Rio Olympics 2016 should give themselves a medal for hypocrisy.
Their preachy warnings about global warming brought a feel-good evening to a screeching halt Friday night. It was an unforced error that unfortunately marred NBC's otherwise solid coverage from Brazil.
Things were going pretty well. NBC's excellent opening video had glibly chalked up to the problem of polluted waters, zika and street crime to the struggles of "modernization."
And then:
Then it happened just like that. Boom. The joyous ceremony took a hard turn with a bleak message about global warming and climate change.
Talk about a buzzkill. The dancing stopped.
There was little of Costas' "revelry" as organizers delivered their real "message" to the world: Stop global warming or rising seas will drown coastline cities/regions such as Florida, Amsterdam, Dubai, Lagos and, yes, Rio de Janeiro.
What a crock of horse poop. No place in the opening ceremony and the science is not at all certain. Indications are pointing to a cooling period instead of warming. To drag this political football into a public forum is beyond all rational thought.
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