Posted on 06/09/2019 5:29:40 AM PDT by Salman
Large parts of Asian Russia could become habitable by the late 21st century due to climate change, new research has found.
A study team from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, Russia, and the National Institute of Aerospace, USA, used current and predicted climate scenarios to examine the climate comfort of Asian Russia and work out the potential for human settlement throughout the 21st century.
They published their results today in Environmental Research Letters.
At 13 million square kilometres Asian Russia -- east of the Urals towards the Pacific -- accounts for 77 per cent of Russia's land area. Its population, however, accounts for just 27 per cent of the country's people and is concentrated along the forest-steppe in the south, with its comfortable climate and fertile soil.
"Previous human migrations have been associated with climate change. As civilisations developed technology that enabled them to adapt, humans became less reliant on the environment, particularly in terms of climate," said the study's lead author Dr Elena Parfenova, from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center.
"We wanted to learn if future changes in climate may lead to the less-hospitable parts of Asian Russia becoming more habitable for humans."
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mesquites = mosquitoes
Vast acres of farmland would open up in the Canadian plains and Siberia. Corn, wheat, potatoes, and secondary cattle would follow. Southern Texas? They might even add pineapples. Fewer people would perish from cold. Canadians might have to give up some time on their natural hockey rinks for swimming lessons, while the Dallas Stars might even have a chance at another Stanley Cup. I like it!
1) The usual suspects in the West scream about climate change.
2) The Russians, who owe nothing to the usual suspects, decide to run the numbers given by said usual suspects to see what it would mean for Russia.
3) Results published in the West. Hilarity ensues.
Well, the Roman Warming Period was 2000 years ago,and it helped the Romans conquer Europe, and there are Roman settlements high in the Alps that as some ice receded, artifacts have been found. Then, about the year 1000 AD there was the Middle Ages Warming Period, where again artifacts were found from the 12th century, from the receding ice in the Alps. So every 1000 years there may be a warming cycle that is still reverberating. A natural cycle, that has nothing to do with fossil fuels. (Remember the Global Warmer masters of East Anglia University. Their hacked emails said “We have to do something about the Middle Ages Warming Period” - admitting that they had no explanation, and then attacking people personally who brought it up.)
We may be well do for another 1000 year warming cycle. But it is a guess.
Yet that is a blink of the eye in geologic time.
We are still far within natural climate variation to believe the ever changing IPCC prognostications. The temperature data is abysmally small. Even in the last 100 years, very few places were recording it. What we have seen is that these so-called honest scientists have gone back and reworked US temp data to lower the temperatures in the early part of the century. It’s funny, because every single mistake of the past that they fix just so happens to point to more global warming. Isn’t that a coincident. They have lowered the curves of the Dust Bowl 1930’s, which were hot and dry, and caused a real problem in America. That’s when climate change was destroying crops and making people hungry. This climate change that Al Gore is screaming about has not done that - ironically one of the things that did cause a food price dislocation is using corn as car fuel. This has literally taken food out of kids’ mouths as one third of the corn crop turned into ethanol. Prices rose, and even commie Castro said it was stupid to use corn to do this. Ha-ha! One commie moralizing to others! Wasn’t Castro in on the plan?
On the Global Warming Scam - they just don’t know enough. They are doing brain surgery in the dark, out in the shed, using garden tools, after a few beers. Guess who is on the table? You are, and after your’re dead, the drunken brain surgeons will take your house. That’s the plan.
At the fall of the Wall, and the end of most of the communist states on the planet, the Euro commies jumped up and ran over to the environmental movement. Here they could still seize the means of production, not for the benefit of “the workers” but now in order to save the planet. I can destroy capitalism if I can destroy their fuel supply. I have a theory, which I cannot prove, but it will bring an apocalypse of extraordinary tragedy. I am the prophet of doom, give me the power and I will save you from it. Give Al Gore money and he can stop Global Warming.
The damn ocean is not coming to Ohio, so stop scaring the kids.
Siberia becoming habitable is BAD, BAD, BAD!!!
All those extra people breathing and, and having kids and more kids all of them expelling all that noxious climate destroying gas and then they will have cows and dogs and sheep and we all will be SO SCREWED!!!
Ping.
You have just accurately described most of America as it was in the mid-19th century.
Regards,
Okay, I’ll bite: What are “no-seems?”
Well, Titus, that was an excellent screed. I tip my hat to a logical, reasoning mind.
In the northern hemisphere, permafrost covers an estimated 9 million square miles —nearly the size of the United States, China, and Canada combined. Think Greenland. Think the Laurentian Shield in Canada.
Wouldn't it be nice to have that huge land mass --- 20 - 25% of the earth's land ---- available for logging, grazing, agriculture, and human habitation?
We are still in the midst of substantial unfinished business: thawing permafrost left over from the last period of global glaciation. In other words, we're not yet quite out of the last Ice Age.
Hey, Greenies! Ya like Green? Then would'ja please let dear Mother Earth --- and us --- finish the job?
You go first.
Well, sure. It would be hard to be less habitable.
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My thought also....
Prior to habitation and infrastructure development much of North America may have been similarly described. There is no doubt that extreme cold and permafrost makes a conventional life more difficult, but certainly not impossible.
“Okay, I’ll bite: What are “no-seems?”
I’m gonna guess he meant “no see ums”
Tiny bugs that bite but are gone before you look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae
Why were mosquitoes every invented ? SMACK
Anything is possible. Remember the Sahara Forest?
They have those things in Georgia, too. Shoulda guessed but I’ve not heard them called that. “Sand fleas” is what we called them.
Thanks for clearing that up!
no-seems are a very tiny fly, travels in swarms, forms clouds around you, and are very hard to see until they land, bite and suck your blood.
Like mosquitoes in that neck of the woods, they do not bite one at a time, but in packs along with the mosquitoes, so instead of swatting, it is more effective to run your hand over your exposed skin turning it red with your blood ... Later, you have a hard time telling where your health skin begins and the itchy reddish white bite bumps end. After a few days even the bites have bites
You’ll love it there, as you get plenty of exercise running and swatting. Running? Yeah, the bears are very thin and very hungry, Just be sure you can outrun the guy next to you. Did I mention the wolves? Oh darn sorry.
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