Putin Says Global Warming Is a Fraud

29 October 2015

 - Russian President Vladimir Putin believes there is no man-made global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia.

Putin’s comments likely came after his staff “did very, very extensive work trying to understand all sides of the climate debate,” according to Andrey Illarionov, Putin’s former senior economic adviser.

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