[fujimoh]

I'm not a sports fan so the attempt to scare me into submission IS JUST NOT WORKING.

[Frantzie]

IO hope it is. The Intl Olympic Committee is totally corrupt.

[edcoil]

Think of all the money and corruption that will end in 2016.

[AbeKrieger]

If they have them in Chicago, he might be right, but for different reasons. GO RIO !!!!!!

[wastedyears]

Stuff like this makes me want to knock myself out by plowing my head through brick.

[NYS_Eric]

The hysterics on display with that comment cannot even be properly parodied.

[Scythian]

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.

What complete dopes, and these guys say that "Glenn Beck" is spreading fear, meanwhile, our kids are being taught they have many 10 good years left before the planet dies by the school systems, watch for suicide rates to skyrocket.

[pnh102]

I’d be perfectly happy if the USA never ever again wasted tax money on hosting another Olympics. Let someone else pick up the tab for once.

[Past Your Eyes]

What is supposed to be the connection between the Olympics and glowbull warming?

[Eddie01]

Wish the international community felt the same about the UN

[joejm65]

First of all, global warming is a hoax, so the governor of Tokyo is full of sh**. Second, it’s silly to keep choosing locations and having countries shell out tons of cash and incur debt to build Olympic venues (and fatten the bank accounts of corrupt IOC members in the process). The Olympics should be held in the same place every 4 years (Greece?), and all of this bidding nonsense can come to an end. There’s no need to move this party all over the world every 4 years. Same goes for the Winter Olympics.

[paulycy]

Just how well did China do financially, after all the stadia were built and all the workers had to stop going to work for the smog and not as many people as expected (I think) showed up?

[subterfuge]

So there ARE positives to Global Warming!! I had no idea.

On the serious side, I was kinda pulling for Japan until emperor nutjob said that.

[rwfromkansas]

Is this sarcasm?

I am not surprised by things very much, but I am stunned anybody would actually suggest we have to stop the games due to global warming or that somehow we might all be dead by 2016. That’s just nuts.

[wbill]

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.

Calling Captain Hyperbole.....Captain Hyperbole to the White Courtesy Phone, please.

[TheThinker]

I'm just so scared of global warming.

I'm shaking in my boots.

Yeah.

[alicewonders]

Goodbye Olympics, don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out.

I’d like to see the UN on that list also.

[tumblindice]

“global warming” Sure, whatever you say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jfCb6-2RA

[Billthedrill]

(Snork!) Anyone unfamiliar with Shintaro Ishihara should really google him up if you’d like a bit of a hoot.

[CanaGuy]

Never-the-less, the IPCC has based its apocalyptic "hockey stick" chart of rising global temperatures that, it now turns out, is based on the historic concentric rings on exactly 12 trees. Count 'em, twelve sets of rings.

Billions of dollars ripped from the coffers of the rich countries and showered on the developing nations, industries crippled, carbon sacrificing, electricity plants shut down, etc., etc., etc. .....based on 12 trees somewhere in Russia?

It's almost laughable, if it weren't so sickening. Is it just me....or have we been had?

[marstegreg]

If Japan really believes this, they need to try a little harder to get them! How hard could it be to steal them away from Chicago?