By end of century most cities will be too hot for summer Olympics

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund

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There will be very few cities at the end of the century that will be able to hold the summer Olympics as we know them today.

John Balmes, a professor of public safety at the University of California, Berkeley, comments on a new study that predicts that within 70 years only eight cities in the Northern Hemisphere outside of Western Europe will be cool enough to host the summer Games. 

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