Would a ban on night sporting events help fight global warming?

Question

I suppose sports parks could install alternative lighting but do they?

What's wrong with all sports events held during the daytime?

Answer 1

1.  People work during the day, and most sporting events are not finacially viable only during the day.

2.  I am not sure what a stadium takes in total lighting power, however if you figure 2 X 60 watt light bulbs per each of the 50,000 people if they were not at the stadium you get a light usage of 6000 kW.  One light bulb per person would be 3000 Kw.  Throw in a TV etc.  I would say moving it to daytime would have little effect on energy consumption.  People are not going to sit in the dark anywhere.  I wish I could find the lighting requirements for a stadium but I can not.

Answer 2

As there is no such thing as Global Warming , it would affect nothing.

Answer 3

We don't need to stop doing things we like to fight global warming.  We just need to do things smarter.  

Here's the plan (which says nothing about night sporting events):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.h...

By the way, the lights don't matter much.  Nothing is nearly as important as emissions from spectators (not the players, also too small to matter) traveling to games.  The fix for that is cars powered by electricity or hydrogen, from nuclear, solar, and wind power plants.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Couple of things with that... first is that basketball and hockey are indoors, so that wouldn't help them.

Secondly, how about all the traveling by the teams?  Maybe they should try to better plan how they travel.  

For instance, say the Florida Marlins travel to San Fran for 3 games, back to Florida for 3 games, fly to Pittsburgh for 3 games, back to Florida for 3 games, off to Houston for four games, etc etc.  Why can't they plan better and streamline traveling in sports?  Instead, the Marlins could go to San Fran, then Houston, then Pgh, then home.  It's still polluting and a lot of travel, but its less in between each leg and overall conservatory.

Answer 6

But what would the people attending the sporting event be doing if they weren't there? If they were all home watching a tape of the game from earlier in the day, it may use more energy than the lighting. Not saying it is true, but just pointing what a full analysis requires.

Answer 7

People work during the day.  All of those people cant take all those days off.

Answer 8

seeing as how humans have nothing to do with causing global warming, the answer is NO!

Answer 9

Yes it would, but so would a ban on day games, which are for the most part attended by the drivers of automobiles.  The same question might as well be asked about all forms of non vital entertainment, such as theater, movies, political rallies.  Why should the average person be forced to sit at home with the thermostat lowered in winter while untold megawatts are being burned at a 'Vegas style show?