“I’ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it’s [synthetic] turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,” Mailata said. “[The union] have got to bring it up. This is why we want all grass fields, to create a standard of play in the league where we’re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don’t have to.”
Maybe now that its affecting sports something will actually be fucken done. But most likely no.
It says right there in the summary, they’re going to talk to the union about getting real grass instead of synthetic turf. That’ll solve climate change, right? Close enough?
I was going to suggest a ludicrous work-around, like air-conditioned football fields, but apparently we already have those…
Cowboys game was 99F outside, 78 inside stadium. How much energy it takes to cool down a stadium that size…
Air conditioning systems running on diesel generators to cool the stadium with very little insulation
They had huge ACs in qatar for the world cup 22. They let one of the hottest places on earth to host a world cup. Imagine the scale of energy required to accommodate the stadium, players, and massive number of visitors for a month in god damn Qatar.
https://safereddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/z09ivx/massive_ac_units_in_the_world_cup_stadiums/
It’s going to be held in Saudi Arabia in 2034.
They don’t give a shit about anything except the money. And the fans are the fucking same.
it’ll become something you can bet on, then somebody will get busted for installing heaters under the turf