Senior CSIRO climate scientist David Karoly says Australian Open organisers may need to consider moving the tournament to another time of the year when conditions are cooler | p_hannam
A senior CSIRO climate scientist says organisers of the Australian Open need to consider moving the tournament to a cooler season to avoid exposing tennis players to increasingly hot summers.
"You have to think of the health of the players. Spectators are [also] often cooking in their seats."Professor Karoly said one option would be to move the tournament to another time of the year when conditions are typically cooler, adding that it was more likely the organisers would seek to manage heat stress days by treating them like rainy days, and scheduling around them, or by holding more matches indoors.
Relatively cool conditions are forecast for the first week of the Open, with the mercury forecast to nudge 30 degrees only on Wednesday. The warming trend has been clear since the 1950s across most of Australia. Temperatures are about 1.4 degrees warmer than a century ago, andMany regions had their hottest year on record, including Sydney and Canberra.
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