re: #45 Sharmuta

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The Russians say that global warming isn’t happening there

This fits with the general Russian stance.

This is purely political. I assure you that there are hundreds of Russian papers that support AGW.

I wrote yesterday, and I am becoming more convinced it is true, that the Russians know the score and have dome the calculus.

They have most of their major cities inland, and a warmer Russia will mean more farmland and oil and gas development in the north. Their bread basket will ultimately have to be moved north, but they have the land to do it and the army to keep others out. They even get a warm water port out of the deal.

Russia is not exactly a climate winner, but they are hit much less severely by it than the US, Europe and China. I honestly think that the Russian leadership almost welcomes it. They will be well positioned compared to us. We are actually one of the biggest climate losers.

So it is like chess. They may lose a bishop ultimately. We loose tow rooks and a queen - and in the mean time Europe pays them for oil.