Does Putin think 'man-made global warming' is a fraud?

Robert
Ice Age Now
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:17 UTC

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been casting doubt on man-made global warming since the early 2000s, according to the New York Times.

Putin believes that "this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and Putin critic.

According to Andrey Illarionov, Putin's former senior economic adviser, the Russian leader's staff "did very, very extensive work trying to understand all sides of the climate debate."

"We found that, while climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited," said Illarionov.

Gee. What a concept. "Climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited."

Looks like the Russians refuse to be hoodwinked by all the propaganda.

Thanks to Bill Sellers for this link

Comment: The relevant text from the NYT article:

The president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. "That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general."

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"We found that, while climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited," he said. "It became clear that the climate is a complicated system and that, so far, the evidence presented for the need to 'fight' global warming was rather unfounded."

Note this this comes from a Putin critic. It would be great if Putin actually saw behind the lies of anthropogenic global warning, but this could just be an attempt to smear Putin and place him in the "global warming denier" camp.