Pear Literature Review : Global Warming and Sports

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GLOBAL WARMING AND SPORTS
GLOBAL WARMING AND SPORTS
ABSTRACT
Sporting events have been a source of livelihood to many talented individuals all over the world
as it is one of the most lucrative professions with better remunerations. On the other hand, it is
the most entertaining event for fans and spectators with football alone havening millions of fans
all over the world. But it is so saddening that the flows of these events are slowly but gradually
are being affected by the fluctuation in temperatures caused by global warming. This report
presents peer literature on the impacts of global warming on sporting activities.

GLOBAL WARMING AND SPORTS
INTRODUCTION
Sporting activities is one of the most lucrative employment sectors as it hosts hundreds of
thousands of talented individuals who directly earn their livelihood from sporting competitions.
Sporting is not the only source of income to individual participants but also a source of revenue
to states ad governments all over the world. However, sports are affected differently with the
fluctuations in the weather and climate conditions (Zarin & Martin, 2020). Extremely cold
weather conditions favour the effects of weather on sporting activities in varied ways as some
events hence are disadvantaged by summer weather conditions. Some sporting activities spur
well in summer seasons; hence during winters, such activities are disadvantages. Sports can
broadly be categorized as either outdoor sports or indoor sports.
Despite weather conditions being of the essence in sporting activities, the trend and climate
conditions are no longer predictable due to increased gradual heating of the atmosphere, earth’s
surface and oceans, often caused by increased emission of chlorofluorocarbons, effects of
greenhouse gases and human activities such as industrial burning of fossil fuels to producing
methane gas, carbon dioxide and other toxic gases into the atmosphere. Increased human
activities lead to depletion of the atmospheric blanket layer that protects the earth from direct
sunlight hence causing global warming, therefore causes unpredicted weather patterns thus
disrupting sporting schedules (Brandford & Stephanie, 2017).
This publication presents a detailed and critical peer review on the effects of global warming on
different sporting activities and some recommendations on how to regulate the effects of global
warming and its effects on human practices such as sporting.