It’ll be a fake winter wonderland in Beijing come Feb. 4 for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The international sports games will be blanketed almost entirely …
It’ll be a fake winter wonderland in Beijing come Feb.4 for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The international sports games will be blanketed almost entirely in artificial snow due to climate change. According to a report co-authored by Georgia State University, shorter winter seasons, less snowfall and melting ice caused by the weather phenomenon has resulted in the games using fake snow. Because the weather varies in different host cities and snow is not always readily available, scientists have figured out a way to create artificial particles to give the illusion of a wintery climate. But the illusion comes at a cost. The report indicates that the games will need about 49 million gallons of water,130 fan-operated snow generators and 300 snow-making guns to create the 1.
