Though Russia is warming 2.5 times as fast as the rest of the planet, some of its scientists, RAS members and public figures regularly voice denials of climate science, sowing confusion among the populace.
In May, the RAS’s Eurasian economic integration council said that Earth’s warming is primarily due to the “outflow of potassium isotope from the Earth’ depths” and linked local climate catastrophes to the “increasing emission of natural hydrogen, which creates ozone holes.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in contrast, states that human release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane have “unequivocally” led to global warming.
Present in Russian public discourse for decades, climate deniers often have backgrounds in natural sciences, engineering, paleoclimatology, or the fossil fuel industry, experts say.
It is because we finally get better weather, warm winters, and nice hot summer. I’m not sceptical, I see that climate is changing, but I like it 🤷♂️
meanwhile people living in already hotter regions are getting even hotter summers.
“In more than half of the cases, my experience was related to skeptics. And if you’re talking to a geologist, there is a 90% likelihood they are skeptics,” said a climate expert who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly. “Sometimes it was an aggressive stance, and sometimes just a lack of understanding.”
Because you just don’t understand
Do you like the increase in forest fires, flooding, droughts, influx of exotic diseases from warmer regions,… too?
You do know the people in affected regions will have to flee and immigrate to your so called “blessed regions”, right? This will result in an unprecedentet refugee crisis
Oh, so the whole global instability is ok, because you personally live in a region that is “blessed”?
So let me ask you this: can we also say that there is no housing shortage anywhere in the world, just because if you ask a few millionaires, they can’t see a problem for them personally?
Yeah, half of the global landmasses flooded, the other half being deserts that experience natural catastrophes on a daily basis and, as the ocean currents we know change or disappear completely, suffer from both extreme heat and cold periods, sounds just like a dream come true.
You may like the weather changes, but you are not going to like the food insecurity and drop in quality of life when food- and goods-producing regions are unable to produce food or goods.
