AH, COUNTY Mayo! Ireland’s greenest shore, washed by the tropical waters of the Gulf Stream, as the tourist brochures have it. A funny place to pitch for the Winter Olympics in 2026, you may think. The Irish Met Service rather agrees, pointing out that Mayo has just six days of snow a year, barely enough for a snowball fight, let alone a global snow-fest.
But has other ideas. Mayo Ireland, the local internet service provider behind the Olympic bid, has been doing some reading. It has discovered that global warming may one day switch off the Gulf Stream,…
