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submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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.

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[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Russians, especially Russian scientists that are some of the best on the planet, know full well what’s going on.

Putin said fake news campaign and so it shall be in Russia.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter how good of a scientist you are if you can't speak your mind freely

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