Just two weeks ago from the Plenary Platform at EASM, I asked “Does Sport Care Enough about #ClimateChange ?” x.com/profmikeweed/s…
Clearly, in FIFA’s case, the answer is “NO!”
This 👇 is a ludicrous (and wholly hypocritical) decision.
#EASM2023

Couldn’t agree more, Iain Lindsey - what these people share is that, in comparison to the general population, they are “freaks” with abnormal abilities and experiences about as far removed from the challenges of those who are inactive as it is possible to be.

Thanks Dan Roan - the problem is structural rather than the emissions of this or that event... & carbon emissions of everyday sport participation (due to sheer volume of travel generated) dwarf that of even the largest sport event or league. Sport needs a transformational rethink

Sport presented as the victim, Prof. Rob Wilson ⚽️💷 & Dan Roan when really its the villain - as I showed at EASM's #EASM2023 this AM, sport's carbon footprint exceeds that to be expected of a sector of its size by at least 50% - part of the problem, not part of the solution.

The EASM organisers have videoed the #EASM2023 keynotes, and will be making them available next week. I'll post a link in my feed when they're available.

“Thinking the unthinkable”. What does sport look like if it takes climate change seriously? Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence @ #easm2023

“I hate sport!”. ⁦⁦⁦The keynote of ⁦Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence⁩ on sport and climate change ⁦EASM⁩ questions sport researchers’ premise that sport is always doing good. #EASM2023

Five years on from my last EASM keynote at EASM Conference 2018, why is #CallingBullOnSport still necessary?
Find out about the things sport doesn’t want to take responsibility for in my #EASM2023 keynote at 9am tomorrow (Friday) morning.

Some questions I’ll be exploring in Friday morning’s EASM keynote:
(i) Does sport disproportionately impact climate change?
(ii) Can sport combat climate change?
(iii) What is sport’s appetite for change?
#EASM2023

‘It’s done!
Friday morning’s EASM Keynote is all ready
…and would you like to guess the answers to the questions?
It’s not too far from “NO” and “NOT ENOUGH”
#EASM2023

That’ll be around half the current recommended weekly number of active minutes (77 vs 150) - much more achievable, and 10% of early deaths saved is a huge public health gain.
So why do ‘expert groups’ insist on persisting with a completely ineffectual 150mins/week recommendation?

👉'Sitting in this Presentation will shorten your life by a minute!'
👉'Bacon & sausages at breakfast might as well be 3 cigarettes!'
👉'For women, getting fat is as dangerous as terrorists!'
? Or is that hysterical moralistic scaremongering ?
👇FIND OUT👇
youtube.com/watch?v=OHcOiF…

Time to get my Open Water Swim back on… just entered the 7.5mile #UllswaterEndToEnd swim in July 2023, but only as a taster for longer swims yet to come!!!

And the @EIExcelSC Olympic Swimming Training camp is done!
Medal - Medal - Medal 🏅 🏅🏅

On our way to join East Kent’s best swimmers at @EIExcelSC Olympic Training Camp, led by Olympic Coach Dave Hemmings - Josie swimming and Daddy coaching.

Decided that it was well past time to lose the #LockdownBeard …
Time to go back to clean and smooth!!
#beforeandafter

A podium finish (3rd place) for the Canterbury Christ Church University SMT+ team at Christ Church Sport & Active Health’s Vice Chancellor’s Christmas Challenge🎄🎅🏅🏅🏅🤾‍♀️🤾🤾‍♂️
As always, a fantastically well organised event for our Uni community to make us #CCCUproud
Here’s the team selfie - we’re ‘flushed’ with success!

#ConcussionInSport

2x observations on #CISG 2022 :

(1) Only RCTs or cohort studies incl in review of long-term effects, so no #CTE studies
BUT, there are no RCTs of efficacy of parachutes in reducing mortality from jumping out of planes. Would #CISG say use is not supported?

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