Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud’

dailycaller.com ^ | 10:56 AM 10/29/2015 | Michael Bastasch

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Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud’

Michael Bastasch10:56 AM 10/29/2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes global warming is a “fraud” — a plot to keep Russia from using its vast oil and natural gas reserves.

Putin believes “there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia,” Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and Putin critic, told The New York Times.

“That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general,” Belkovsky said.

Putin has been casting doubt on man-made global warming since the early 2000s, according to the Times. In 2003, Putin told an international climate conference warming would allow Russians to “spend less on fur coats,” adding that “agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that.”

Putin’s comments likely came after his staff “did very, very extensive work trying to understand all sides of the climate debate,” according to Andrey Illarionov, Putin’s former senior economic adviser, who’s now a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.

“We found that, while climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited,” Illarionov said. “It became clear that the climate is a complicated system and that, so far, the evidence presented for the need to ‘fight’ global warming was rather unfounded.”

The New York Times published an article on how the Russian media’s skepticism of global warming is being driven by Putin’s laissez faire attitude on the issue. The Times bashed the Russian autocrat for offering “only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December’s U.N. climate summit in Paris.”

Russia’s largely state-run media has spent little to no time covering global warming despite huge fires raging across Siberia. Instead of blaming the fires on warming, Russian news outlets tended to focus on “locals who routinely but carelessly burn off tall grasses every year, and the sometimes incompetent crews struggling to put the fires out.”

Such reasoning wasn’t good enough for the Times, which argued that “Russian media continue to pay little attention to an issue that animates so much of the world.”

Russian media leaders argue it’s not just the tone being set by Putin, but a weak economy and unemployment woes are a top concern of the Russian public — they don’t seem to care much about the weather.

“It is difficult to spend editorial resources on things that are now a low priority in the midst of the economic crisis,” Galina Timchenko, who runs a news site, told the Times. “Unfortunately climate change is not very interesting to the public.”

Low oil prices have hampered Russia’s economic growth, and spurred the Putin administration to take more action abroad, fomenting conflict in Ukraine and supporting the Assad regime in Syria. But at home, Russians are feeling the bite of cheap oil and western sanctions.

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[kaehurowing]

The real stupidity is it’s countries like China causing the environmental problems, not us. And yet we’ll curb our economic activities, and China will do nothing.

[JEDI4S]

It takes time to come up with a new plan. I would expect to see far more pressure on the West to take larger numbers of head-choppers into their nations as a first next step in their relaunch.

They are nothing if not relentless. Like our socialists/leftists here at home.

Soon the number of “refugees” we “pledge” to take will reach over 1 million due to the prodding of the demonrats saying it was all the Wests’ fault. After all it's for the children.

Poontang is just a fly in the ointment...a monkey in the wrench..until the one-worlders regain their footing. But the left will try to assist them by increasing the threat level to us by increasing the influx of mooslime hordes to our shore.

With no one to stop them their plans may continue although slightly delayed. It's gonna be a long 13 months for all of us in the West.

[Enlightened1]

BTTT

[palmer]

And what I was saying is that the agenda for globull warming hoax is totally pushed by Goldman Sachs. They and obamaumao and the Occupy socialists/soros all share anti-semitic rage, against Israel and conservatives. That was and is my point.

Your point sounds like a poor foreign language translation..

[John S Mosby]

Let’s review: “Agenda for globull warming... pushed by Goldman Sachs. They (meaning Goldman Sachs) and obamaumao (I refuse to use the One’s name and this is properly descriptive a maoist maumau kenyan) and the Occupy (remember who they are/were)/Soros (George Soros Open Society/currency speculator who backs Occupy— both are socialist organizations). Makes perfect sense- doesn’t read like chinee/engrish toy assembly instructions.

That a Jewish investment bank, Goldman Sachs (described as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”) supports a president and political ultra leftist useful idiots who blindly support an obvious hoax as useful idiots- and that all of them are anti-semitic lefties- this is the height of irony, as it is this corruption which is hand in glove with the neo-marxist agenda.

BTW- If you are looking for the proper “style manual” then consult the grammar grannies at FR. Maybe you’d like the point made in Latin: Corruptisima re publica plurimae leges. Thus the phrase from Communion- “Hoc es corpus” to non-believers becomes Hocus Pocus— and just like climate change “religion”— a hoax. Deo Vindice.

[palmer]

Goldman and Sachs are Jewish names? Slap me with a herring. The rest of your information seems to also be similarly obvious. Soros and Occupy and Obamatard (hopefully acceptable naming) will use whatever tool they can to destroy capitalism. Israel must be destroyed too since they are both capitalist and Jewish.

However global warming alarm (to be precise) is an interesting tool to use. Goldman and Sachs will only make money if there is a cap and trade because cap and trade is a scam and will do nothing except enrich the traders. Look at Europe now. They have fake caps and create far more CO2 than ever outside of the caps.

Anyone promoting global warming alarm with the tiniest shred of honesty (far and few between) would admit that the only solution to their imaginary problem is massive global economic depression. That would be very bad for Goldman and Sachs and everyone else. Thus the dilemma of global warming alarm. They want a fake solution to a fake problem which requires two levels of deceit. I don't think they will pull it off.

[John S Mosby]

Have long felt that the carbon commodity exchanges the Goldman Sachs set up in Chicago Commodities market— was all about... oil, coal.. energy stocks.

Pushing global warming, reduction of CO2 as causal agent (which it is NOT) meaning running up the price/bbl of oil. If,in reality we are heading for a global mini-ice age (similar to the one that was present during the American Revolution) well there would be a killing to be made.

Shorting the market on the downside, in one instance and selling at high price on the other. Either way, positioning in the govt. regulatory agencies policy and directing the market to produce the result. Disgusting. Call it venture socialism— best name for it. Time to hunker down and stock up.