October 18, 2023
Excerpt: “Warming is about to end. And the cause is not humans, but the interplay between the Sun and Earth. Currently, we are in a favorable period, but we will inevitably transition to an unfavorable [cold] one … around 2030-2035.”
This statement by Andrei Fedotov, director of the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was published in an interview this month by RAS, the country’s leading scientific institution.
Fedotov, a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, cited his studies of Lake Baikal and historic climate epochs, warning “When the ice age comes, you will feel it immediately.”
Andrey Fedotov. Photo: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Via Russian Academy of Sciences October 2, 2023: Andrey Petrovich, not everyone knows what limnology is. At one time I was surprised to learn that this is a synonym for the word “lake science”. – – This is not a synonym, but a translation from Greek. Limnology is the science of lakes. If you look at the map of the lakes where I collected bottom sediments, there are no “free” lakes left in the area. We also work in the Arctic. We are currently studying firn cores from Antarctica. This year we had an expedition to the Pole of Cold, to the Yakut Lakes. All freshwater and saltwater inland water systems are our targets.
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Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS): “In other words, what awaits us is not warming, but cooling. When?”
Andrey Fedotov: “Now we are in a prosperous period, but let’s move on to a disadvantaged one. It’s inevitable. According to my estimates, the transition should occur in 2030–2035.”
RAS: “So the Ice Age has already arrived, but we haven’t felt it yet?”
Andrey Fedotov: “No. When it comes, you will feel it immediately.”
RAS: “And what should be done now? Prepare felt boots, warm clothes, heaters?”
Andrey Fedotov: “I would start with food. Hungry in felt boots won’t last long.”
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Moscow Times: 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.”
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Present-day Russian TV viewers may get the impression that climate change is not an established fact. In doubt-inducing programs regularly aired by Russian state channels in the last decade, audiences are confronted with the message that the climate debate is ongoing and that theories of imminent global cooling hold equal credibility to the consensus on human-induced warming supported by the IPCC.
A 2020 episode of the show “The Most Shocking Hypotheses” on the state-controlled REN TV network aired claims that “global warming turned out to be a global scam.”
In the episode, the host briefly mentions that information in the program would contradict established science, but said their purpose was to give the floor to another hypothesis so viewers could make their own conclusions.
“Isn’t it time for the whole world to save humanity from imminent doom?” the narrator asks. “It turns out things are not so straightforward. Perhaps the climate apocalypse exists only in the inflamed minds of people, frightened by global media and the shocking predictions of scientists.”
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President Vladimir Putin has voiced mixed rhetoric on climate during his two decades in power, from famously joking in 2003 that Russians would not need to buy as many fur coats and saying in 2019 that “nobody knows the causes of global climate change” to naming climate change a “challenge of planetary magnitude” in 2015. In 2021, he said Russia would achieve climate neutrality by 2060.
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Polar specialist Andrey Fedotov of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Via Russian Academy of Sciences October 2, 2023: “Warming is about to end. And the cause is not humans, but the interplay between the Sun and Earth. Currently, we are in a favorable period, but we will inevitably transition to an unfavorable [cold] one … around 2030-2035.” This statement by Andrei Fedotov, director of the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was published in an interview this month by RAS, the country’s leading scientific institution. Fedotov, a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, cited his studies of Lake Baikal and historic climate epochs, warning “When the ice age comes, you will feel it immediately.”
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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.”
