Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport

The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change. This book shows how to mitigate and counter the worst elements of climate change, interviews athletes, coaches, politicians, and thought-leaders, and provides a play-by-play of how global warming is already impacting sport.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The world of sport has a new adversary: climate change. In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the scorching sun, professional athletes required oxygen tanks to compete during the California wildfire season, players collapsed and play was halted due to the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis Open, ski resorts in the Alps have become ghost towns, golf courses are sinking into the sea, and the Qatar World Cup, among the greatest follies in sporting history, saw hundreds (perhaps thousands) of heat-induced deaths before a ball was even kicked. The threat that climate change poses to sport is obvious, but with billions of participants and fans around the world who rely on the sector for entertainment, employment, fitness, and health, this is one industry we cannot afford to lose. In this book, Madeleine Orr demonstrates that it doesn't have to be this way. There are ways to mitigate, and perhaps even counter, even the worst aspects of climate change. Madeleine, a world-leading sport ecologist, interviews athletes, coaches, politicians, and thought leaders to learn more about the inevitable consequences for this trillion-dollar industry. From the frontlines of climate change, Warming Up takes readers through a play-by-play of how global warming is already impacting sport, and how the sports world can fight back.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 159 x 240 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399404525