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Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud’
dailycaller.com ^ | 10:56 AM 10/29/2015 | Michael Bastasch

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.”

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.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/29/russias-putin-says-global-warming-is-a-fraud/#ixzz3pyFHb11Z


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; putin; putinclimatechange; putinfordictator; russia
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1 posted on 10/29/2015 8:19:31 AM PDT by Trumpinator
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To: Trumpinator

Dammit....once again Putin is making more sense than Obama. What has become of our world?


2 posted on 10/29/2015 8:22:02 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: Trumpinator

It’s pretty amazing when more truth comes from the lips of a former KGB officer than a US president.


3 posted on 10/29/2015 8:22:10 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Trumpinator

One look at the cap and trade racket and you know it’s a fraud.


4 posted on 10/29/2015 8:22:21 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: Trumpinator

Ruh roh! Now, worse then being a communist, he’ll be called out as a doubter/skeptic/denier. He should be arrested and flogged poste haste.


5 posted on 10/29/2015 8:22:53 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Trumpinator

Would it make me a Putin lover if I agree?


6 posted on 10/29/2015 8:22:55 AM PDT by skeeter
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7 posted on 10/29/2015 8:23:20 AM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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To: Trumpinator
Well at least Putin has the brains God gave him, more than I can say about obuma, oh yeah I forgot he got Mohammad's brains.....
8 posted on 10/29/2015 8:24:20 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

If I understood the article - Putin thought it maybe real - asked his scientists to investigate - they being results oriented (or else one assumes from Russia) came back and told Putin it’s western fantasy nonsense. Putin takes the scientific findings of his people and plans the economy accordingly. One assumes.


9 posted on 10/29/2015 8:25:31 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: skeeter

I think Putinista is the proper term.


10 posted on 10/29/2015 8:25:36 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Dammit....once again Putin is making more sense than Obama. What has become of our world?

There are few leaders in the world who are worse than Hussein.

11 posted on 10/29/2015 8:26:39 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Now I understand why my grandparents quit voting.)
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To: McGruff

I prefer Putinbot.


12 posted on 10/29/2015 8:27:45 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Trumpinator
This isn't real?


13 posted on 10/29/2015 8:27:45 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: Trumpinator
As a former(?) KGB, he probably knows the fraud originated in a Kremlin think tank, to fool gullible westerners.

14 posted on 10/29/2015 8:28:33 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Trumpinator

Putin needs to tie George Soros into it though. I’ll bet there is a connection.


15 posted on 10/29/2015 8:29:07 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: McGruff

If you admire a soldier or an athlete for their skills why does it have to be categorized as Love...

That sounds like PC speak or feminizing something normal...

2 kinds of love

Agape - Christian love one another

Eros - Lets get physical...

Words have meaning...


16 posted on 10/29/2015 8:29:23 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: HarleyLady27
NOAA refused yesterday to turn over all communication or analysis relating to their false assertion that there is adverse atmospheric damage relating to CO2 emissions. Yet we fund them like we have funded obama care 5 times and illegal Amnesty ( in the current budget) 2 times. Republicans amaze me at how they fail to do what we sent them for just 2 years ago
17 posted on 10/29/2015 8:30:07 AM PDT by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: Trumpinator

Well, I have to agree that he is right about this.


18 posted on 10/29/2015 8:30:53 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Trumpinator

Well for once I agree with Vlad, at least on this topic. But AGW’s goal is to restrict fossil fuel use worldwide, not just in Russia, with the U.S. seen as the chief “villain.” The AGW propagandists seem to have no problem with China opening a new coal-fired power plant every week or two, or with third world countries maintaining very high levels of CO2 production.


19 posted on 10/29/2015 8:30:54 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Trumpinator


20 posted on 10/29/2015 8:31:00 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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