News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
6 May 2010
Last December the scientists on polar station 37 spoke of having passed through the longest polar night. From итар-тасс came comment from the scientists on board polar drift station 37: they have passed the winter equinox, though in the darkness of the polar night they did not notice. It is reported that they are now looking foward to the onset of spring - ’ Однако... Read More...
23 April 2010
This report in риа-новости quotes a researcher at the National Geophysical Observatory speaking at a conference in St. Petersburg which states that there will be a prolonged period of global cooling, peaking after 15 years. The scientist claims that the oscillation in the global temperature is greater than that observed under global warming. There is explicit criticsism... Read More...
9 April 2010
As Putin addressed the United Russia conference on Socio-Economic Development in Siberia which touched on questions of housing policy, mortgages for young families and professionals in the south and northern areas of that vast region, including the Arctic and the Far North, a problem which has been mentioned before, Chilingarov has addressed the problem of climate change and what it... Read More...
2 April 2010
мурманск-вестник has a sort of retrospective look at Marine Arctic Geophysical Expedition a company with around 40 years of experience in geophysical underwater surveys, which this year will work on the northern Barents Sea and the Laptev Seas, the latter of which is considered, so it is claimed in the article, as having perhaps the best potential for developing hydrocarbon... Read More...
22 March 2010
вести.ru has excellent first hand and detailed video footage of the establishment of the Russian polar station base Borneo, which I think took place over the weekend. The interviews with the scientists and pilots on board plus the commentary in вести emphasize the work that the station will do in understanding processes of climate change, which as we all know is of some interest... Read More...
18 March 2010
вести.ru were the first to broadcast, there is video, Medvedev’s remarks to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. There is a need to obtain the correct balance between the competitiveness of Russia’s economy and measures to combat environmental change, according to Medvedev. This is fair enough but Medvedev also commented on the, ‘ недопустимости... Read More...
8 February 2010
Recent days have seen a number of contradictory arguments about what might happen to Russia under conditions of global warming. rbc.ru reports on an American study by the Pew Group which claims that melting Arctic ice will damage permafrost and create further unspecified problems, followed by a number of rather bland comments from one Alexander Bedritsky, Russian President of the WMO... Read More...
3 February 2010
Despite the recent doubts as to the economic prospects for the Shtokman project, which this blog will follow as best as it can, техноПрогресс has reported that 1.3 billions roubles has been allocated for hydrographic and geophysical studies into what it calls, ‘обоснования внешней границы континентального шельфа РФ в Северном... Read More...
28 January 2010
The boat that I described yesterday as playing a role in the rescue of the Ivan Makarin is back in Vladivostok, so reports vecti.ru. Now this is only indirectly related to the issue of ArcticRussia but the ship was stuck in the ice in back in November while working for the BBC in Antarctica. The interesting fact here is that the ice breaker was stuck for about a week. вести.ru are... Read More...
25 January 2010
… these are the words of poet and RAS scientist Alexander Gorodnitsky in an interview in Novaya Gazeta (St. Petersburg), pointing the finger at Al Gore and carbon traders for making erroneous claims and money. Gorodnitsky refers us instead to the work of geophysicist and Academician Oleg G. Sorokhtin, whose work demonstrates that anthropogenic carbon emissions are around 1%... Read More...
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