Skating Rinks Monitor Climate Change After Canadian scientists predicted that global warming will eventually be the demise of backyard skating rinks, a group of geographers at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo created RinkWatch. In just 20 days, 630 volunteers signed up to keep tabs on the condition of their home rinks.

Skating Rinks Monitor Climate Change

After Canadian scientists predicted that global warming will eventually be the demise of backyard skating rinks, a group of geographers at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo created RinkWatch. In just 20 days, 630 volunteers signed up to keep tabs on the condition of their home rinks.

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    Canada♥
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    it looks like a shoe? well kinda
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    Ours lasted less than a week. Now it’s a fucking lake again because it was 65 and raining yesterday…in january. Anyone...
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    use our rinks…why wouldn’t we??
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    If only I had the ability to have a back yard rink
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    We have no rink… we have boards but no ice :( It goes from -3 F to 53 F with rain between…. not great for skating….