News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
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...
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...
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...
18 January 2010
коммерсант has a piece on the apparent contraditions between the ras/iea and roshydromet on global warming that I mentioned in the previous post (also note Caitlyn’s comments). I didn’t know that the IEA report was presented to the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the 29th December, more evidence perhaps of the split between the two agencies. The basic problem... Read More...
16 January 2010
The position of roshydromet regarding the science of global warming is interesting, if only because it appears to be based on or endorse the position of the IPCC and therefore contradict many of the statements made by leading academicians from the RAS. риа-новости report a new ’document’ from the Russian state metereological organization which makes predictions about... Read More...
18 December 2009
gzt.ru publishes an analysis of a report by the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis which claims that British climate scientists have been systematically falsifying climate data by ignoring/selecting/filtering data from Russian weather stations that would otherwise contradict their claims about an overall 2 degree warming in Russia. The Gzt.ru piece is balanced, however, in that... Read More...
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