SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 7, 2024--
Foresight Sports, a Revelyst brand and the leader in premium optical launch monitor and golf simulation technology, is proud to announce its partnership with Volition America, a movement dedicated to celebrating American patriotism through innovative apparel and accessories. Together, Foresight Sports and Volition America have created a custom edition of the QuadMAX launch monitor, paying tribute to U.S. military veterans and embodying the spirit of giving back. This collaboration is a testament to both companies’ shared values of excellence, patriotism, and unity.
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The Foresight Sports x Volition America QuadMAX Launch Monitor Collaboration will be available starting Nov.11 at Foresightsports.com/Volition for $19,999 MSRP. As a special Veterans Day offer, consumers purchasing during the first week of sale will receive a complimentary Bushnell Golf Tour V5 Patriot Pack laser rangefinder.
“Inspired by the service of our military family members and employees, we’re thrilled to collaborate with Volition America on a meaningful edition of our QuadMAX launch monitor,” said Scott Werbelow, co-president of Foresight Sports and general manager of Bushnell Golf. “Working with brands like Volition America allows us to give back to the military community while offering golfers innovative technology they can use proudly.”
The Volition America edition of the QuadMAX boasts a custom paint scheme, the Volition America logo, an American flag, and the number 13, which symbolizes the flag-folding ceremony honoring our nation’s heroes. Alongside its advanced data capabilities, this exclusive package includes a custom sling bag, access to more than 27 simulated golf courses — including the American Dunes Golf Club (the birthplace of Folds of Honor) and The Patriot Golf Club (the home of Folds of Honor) — and a range of hardware accessories.
With roots near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Foresight Sports has a longstanding commitment to employ and support veterans and military causes. This partnership with Volition America is an extension of that dedication. A portion of the proceeds from each QuadMAX sold will be donated to the Folds of Honor Foundation, providing scholarships to the families of fallen and disabled American heroes.
“We are incredibly excited about this partnership,” said John Sapiente, CEO of Volition America. “At Volition America, we believe in bringing people together across our country in a positive way, and what better way to do that than through the game of golf? It’s a sport that unites us, and this partnership allows us to offer golfers a product that not only enhances their game but also supports the American heroes who make our freedom possible.”
For more information on Foresight Sports' launch monitors, golf simulators, and the Volition America partnership, visit www.foresightsports.com/volition
About Foresight Sports
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Foresight Sports develops the most advanced and most trusted performance analysis solutions in the golf industry. Outdoors or indoors, from cutting-edge launch monitors and software to the ultimate virtual golf experience, Foresight Sports is your total technology solution.
About Revelyst
Revelyst, a segment of Vista Outdoor Inc. (NYSE: VSTO), is a collective of world-class maker brands that design and manufacture performance gear and precision technologies. Our category-defining brands leverage meticulous craftsmanship and cross-collaboration to pursue new innovations that redefine what is humanly possible in the outdoors. Portfolio brands include Foresight Sports, Bushnell Golf, Fox, Bell, Giro, CamelBak, Bushnell, Simms Fishing and more. For more information, visit our website at www.revelyst.com.
About Volition America
Volition America is leading a movement of proud patriotism, empowering Americans to understand the value of choice, not just on special holidays, but throughout the calendar year. In collaboration with leading active-lifestyle brands, Volition America is growing its product offering, as it builds a community of loyal, like-minded followers, while leading a movement to unite Americans through our shared patriotic values. Volition America has a commitment to supporting the children of fallen American heroes, by donating a percentage of all proceeds to the Folds of Honor Foundation. For more information, please visit www.volitionamerica.com or contact marlonlewinter@gmail.com
Together, Foresight Sports and Volition America have created a custom edition of the QuadMAX launch monitor, paying tribute to U.S. military veterans and embodying the spirit of giving back. (Photo: Business Wire)
CHICAGO (AP) — For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it's ever been. And for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming compared to the pre-industrial average, the European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday.
“It's this relentless nature of the warming that I think is worrying,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus.
Buontempo said the data clearly shows the planet would not see such a long sequence of record-breaking temperatures without the constant increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere driving global warming.
He cited other factors that contribute to exceptionally warm years like last year and this one. They include El Nino — the temporary warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide — as well as volcanic eruptions that spew water vapor into the air and variations in energy from the sun. But he and other scientists say the long-term increase in temperatures beyond fluctuations like El Nino is a bad sign.
“A very strong El Nino event is a sneak peek into what the new normal will be about a decade from now,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist with the nonprofit Berkeley Earth.
News of a likely second year of record heat comes a day after U.S. Republican Donald Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax” and promised to boost oil drilling and production, was reelected to the presidency. It also comes days before the next U.N. climate conference, called COP29, is set to begin in Azerbaijan. Talks are expected to focus on how to generate trillions of dollars to help the world transition to clean energies like wind and solar and avoid more warming.
Also on Thursday, a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme called for increased funds to adapt to global heating and its consequences. It found that the $28 billion spent worldwide to adapt to climate change in 2022 — the latest year the data is available — is an all time high. But it's still far short of the estimated $187 to $359 billion needed every year to deal with the heat, floods, droughts and storms exacerbated by climate change.
“Earth’s ablaze,” said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a pre-recorded statement marking the report's release. “Humanity’s torching the planet and paying the price” with the vulnerable most affected, he said.
Buontempo pointed out that going over the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold of warming for a single year is different than the goal adopted in the 2015 Paris Agreement. That goal was meant to try to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times on average, over 20 or 30 years.
A United Nations report this year said that since the mid-1800s on average, the world has already heated up 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) — up from previous estimates of 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit) or 1.2 degrees (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit). That's of concern because the U.N. says the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals of the world's nations still aren't nearly ambitious enough to keep the 1.5 degree Celsius target on track.
The target was chosen to try to stave off the worst effects of climate change on humanity, including extreme weather. “The heat waves, storm damage, and droughts that we are experiencing now are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Natalie Mahowald, chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University.
Going over that number in 2024 doesn’t mean the overall trend line of global warming has, but “in the absence of concerted action, it soon will,” said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann.
Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson put it in starker terms. “I think we have missed the 1.5 degree window,” said Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track countries’ carbon dioxide emissions. “There’s too much warming.”
Indiana state climatologist Beth Hall said she isn't surprised by the latest report from Copernicus, but emphasized that people should remember climate is a global issue beyond their local experiences with changing weather. “We tend to be siloed in our own individual world,” she said. Reports like this one “are taking into account lots and lots of locations that aren’t in our backyard.”
Buontempo stressed the importance of global observations, bolstered by international cooperation, that allow scientists to have confidence in the new report's finding: Copernicus gets its results from billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.
He said that going over the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) benchmark this year is “psychologically important” as nations make decisions internally and approach negotiations at the annual U.N. climate change summit Nov. 11-22 in Azerbaijan.
“The decision, clearly, is ours. It’s of each and every one of us. And it’s the decision of our society and our policymakers as a consequence of that,” he said. “But I believe these decisions are better made if they are based on evidence and facts.”
Associated Press reporters Seth Borenstein in Washington and Sibi Arasu in Bengaluru, India contributed to this report.
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