Saturday 30th of March 2024

an eagle and a bear go into a stormy bar...

global warming

As the Americans blame the communists and Russia to have invented “global warming” to bugger up the US economy which is based on burning fossil fuels as if there was no tomorrow, some Russian newspapers are blaming the USA for having created the concept of global warming to bugger up the Russian economy — as a mythical weapon aimed at curtailing Russian oil and gas exports. Overall, quietly, the Russian government knows that global warming is increasingly problematic and the government is taking steps to defend against climate change. The Russian scientists are no dummies like the US politicians who waste a lot of hot air with brainfarts.


In early September, according to an article in Science magazine, Russia’s prosecutor’s office demanded that the environment ministry take steps to increase the accuracy of weather forecasts in light of a changing climate. The new charge reflects a sea change in Russia’s views about climate change and how the nation must respond. Until recently, tackling climate change was a low priority for the federal government. One reason is complacence, because Russia’s greenhouse gas emissions have already plummeted since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Another is political: Russia’s economy depends heavily on pumping oil and gas out of the ground. But in August, Moscow city released a draft climate change adaptation plan, and other regions are working on their own plans. Still, although Russia is bracing for climate change, it has shown little desire to rein in carbon emissions.


As mentioned in the article, this complacency had to do with many things, including the fact that Russia is under very strict sanctions impose by the vengeful US Empire. But the Russian Government though not appearing to do much about climate change knows that global warming is a reality. Russia will only sign the Paris climate accord in 2020, as the country can presently afford to do little in reduction of emissions considering its emissions reduced dramatically with the collapse of the USSR, about 30 per cent reductions now compared to 1990s levels. 

But climate change is bringing some serious challenges in Russia, including more powerful storms, forest fires in Siberia and defrosting of the permafrost. These changes also allow some exotic diseases to creep from the south into the Russian population. Unlike the claim of our Abbott-the-Idiot-Turdy-Dummy, more people in Russia die from heat-waves than from the cold weather. in 2010 more than 11,000 deaths in Russia were attributed to heat-waves and heat-wave-related smog from fires. 

This year the Russian government has sacked its Meteorological Bureau chief for failing to predict a massive storm in Moscow that killed 18 people and injured a lot more. The Russian meteorogical studies clearly shows that for the last 25 years, extreme weather events have doubled in number, over the country. Average temperatures are rising, especially in the arctic, which has become navigable, even in winter. 

While in the US (and in Australia copycat), the do-nothing, go-backwards, return-to-the-past “solution” in regard to CO2 emissions prevail, Russia is preparing better against the changes. They know that stuff is coming and they want better meteorological forcasts as well as fostering better climate change sciences.

the arctic is melting...

July 2017

Arctic sea ice has been melting at a steady clip this summer as it heads toward its annual low point. But a new chart shows that with nearly two months still left in the melt season, sea ice area is already below what would have been a yearly low in the 1980s.

The comparison shows the clear long-term decline of Arctic sea ice fueled by the global rise in heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The dramatic shrinkage of sea ice over the past few decades is driving major changes, from the loss of crucial Arctic habitat to the potential influence of weather patterns around the world.

 

Read more:

http://www.businessinsider.com/arctic-ice-melting-chart-2017-7?IR=T

abuse of trust...

  • Putin Says Western Countries Committed Major Mistake by Abusing Russia's Trust

    Russia’s major mistake in relations with the Western countries was trusting them too much and letting them abuse Moscow’s trust, Vladimir Putin said.

    “The main mistake on our side in relations with the West is that we trusted you too much, while your mistake was mistaking that trust for weakness and abusing this trust,” Putin said while answering a question of a Western reporter on what mistakes Russia committed in ties with the West over the last 15 years.

    Russia has learned its lesson and decided to change its strategy in foreign affairs, according to the president.

    “Realizing this, we need to cross out what happened, flip the page and move on, building our relations on mutual respect and treating each other as equal partners,” Putin added.

  • 20:33Trump Prevented From Implementing Election Campaign Pledges

    "As for his unpredictability, it is not only because of him, it is also tied to the strong resistance within the country. He is basically not allowed to implement any of his election platforms and plans, be it in healthcare or in something else. He makes a decision on migrants and a court immediately blocks it, it is happening all the time. Therefore saying that his unpredictability only depends on him – no, it depends on the entire US political system," Putin said at the final plenary session of the Valdai International Discussions Club in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi.

    An expert at the Valdai Discussion Club's meeting in Sochi asked Putin what advice he would give to Trump to be a good president.

    The US leader "does not need any advice, because to be elected, even without the experience of such huge administrative work, you need to have a certain talent and go through this crucible. He did it and won in an honest way," Putin said.

    read more:

    https://sputniknews.com/russia/201710191058371503-putin-valdai-discussio...

no more a sceptic septic...ish...

 

Up until a few years ago, Richard Muller was often quoted by sceptics as a credible, high-profile scientist who doubted the consensus on climate change.

Today, he starts his lectures by stating a few things he believes to be facts.

"Al Gore has grossly exaggerated global warming. And if you watch his movie you have more misinformation than information.

"However, global warming is real. It is caused by humans. It is caused by the human emission of greenhouse gases, and I personally feel we have to stop it somehow."

In 2010, Professor Muller from Berkeley University was funded to carry out a comprehensive study by a group of individuals who doubted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) data.

They believed that urban heat islands, data-selection bias, and inaccurate climate models were being glossed over by scientists.

 

Professor Muller and his team — all of whom doubted climate change was happening or that carbon dioxide was its cause — were shocked to find a correlation between carbon dioxide emissions and warming.

"That was the biggest surprise of all," he said.

"Volcanoes, sunspots, orbital changes, we could all rule out. What we could do is show [that warming] matched the carbon dioxide exceedingly well."

To address what he sees as a lack of transparency in some IPCC reporting, his team made all their data available online.

"The teams that did [the previous studies] said 'trust us'. We said 'don't trust us, here's what we did'. And for that reason I think we were able to win over the sceptics," he said.

However, he said there was still room for scepticism.

"Yes I am a converted sceptic. However, anybody today who is not a sceptic about the solutions being proposed is not thinking them through."

 

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-25/climate-change-sceptics-co...

 

"All of a sudden that [carbon-rich material in the sediment] vanishes and it's just this dingy mud with no evidence of biological activity at all," he said.

"That was a response to a four-degree temperature increase that occurred over 20,000 years. We're looking at something that's a hundred-times faster than that."

Dr Purcell said his acceptance of the climate science had a significant personal toll.

"It's deeply impacted my relationship with my father," he said.

"It's severely eroded our relationship and our ability to communicate."

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-25/climate-change-sceptics-co...