Posted on 10/29/2015 8:19:31 AM PDT by Trumpinator
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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.â€
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.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/29/russias-putin-says-global-warming-is-a-fraud/#ixzz3pyFHb11Z
Will Putin join Obama at the Paris Party ?
One look at the cap and trade racket and you know it’s a fraud.
Putin has the luxury of not needing liberal talking points or their regressive agenda, he already lords over a country the socialists here aspire to.
I maybe dating myself but here is an old "In Search Of..." episode from the 1970s about the feared coming ice age man, I loved that show as a kid).
In Search Of... The Coming Ice Age (Yes, 35 years ago in 1977, this was the thinking before the global warming malarkey we have now!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_861us8D9M
Having grown up during the Cold War, I am awkwardly uncomfortable feeling stronger support for Russia’s president than for America’s.
Someone will presently be by to tie this to John McCain. Oh wait . . . you’re already here.
He knows communism better than most.
My goodness,the Homofascista Islamonazi Maiden shills are now Globull warmers.
Well, the Russians and Putin recognize the role of the
“Jews” as they naturally would, even from the time of Stalin, who eliminated them from the Politburo of old.
Brings to mind the reality of WHO exactly has continued to push carbon credits and globull warming for lining their pockets in the face of the EXACT opposite which is coming— i.e. a global ice age, mini or not.
Who? Goldman Sachs. The Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone quote that Goldman Sachs is a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.â€
Oh if they could only eliminate the Russians in the commodity world, think how Goldman could do.
While this Russian commentary on global warming will be debunked in media by saying implicitly it is “anti-semitic” based— the dirty large non-secret is that the crypto Soros neo socialists are themselves anti-semitic (see: Obamaumao’s comments on Netanyahu to Sarkozy, who is now aligning with the Russians) in favor of ... the State, and totalitarianism of their crazed socialists, ironically and cleverly backed by.... Goldman Sachs, who back Obamaumao.
The screwworm continues to turn, and we have to stay sharp.
Gotta luv him.
I have no idea what that was and I tuned out when I saw “Jews” sorry.
Putin basically is Obama on steroids. The only thing preventing Obama from saying this sort of stuff is his political base. Putin doesn’t care for that sort of a thing. Obama wakes up dreaming he had that sort of power . . ..
Or...
Perhaps he is a secret Freeper?
Which party would Pooty be running in if he were eligible?
He still looks like Phil Collins to me.
:-)
Oh, and I forgot to mention . . . if a politician here (nowadays), calls global warming a fraud, all it takes is for someone else to call him or her “GOPe.” And it’s over.
He is right, again.
He believes in democracy?
I don’t buy the idea the KGB started global warming.
It would be funny if he held a news conference and put such evidence of Soviet origination out on the table and into the public domain.
And even if he doesn’t have such evidence he could do massive damage to the AGW movement by faking it. I wonder if the AGWers are aware of that?
You be right, American Scocialists, Communists and Homofascistas are much better liars than the Russian variety.
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