Global warming with Soviet ties?

Recently the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report stating that it was “very likely” that the global increase of temperatures over the last fifty year has been caused by human activity. Hoping to get some real information from their report I looked through several varying articles until I stumbled upon something interesting, a map showing the areas of greatest temperature change over the last half-century

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By looking at this map it is pretty obvious that the largest area of concentrated warming has occurred in or around Russia. I found this surprising for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that due to its continued bleak economic state for the last, it would be fair to say that there are substantially fewer cars being driven on a day to day basis in Russia, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots that few cars=few greenhouse gases. Alright, I realize that vehicular emissions play only a small role in terms of total greenhouse gases emitted, in fact according to UN Food and Agriculture organization vehicular emissions produce fewer greenhouse gases than livestock. So what about livestock? Due to its harsh land and climate, despite their growing beef industry, livestock in the Russian Federation is much less a factor than in most other areas of the world.

Now we have made it to the big daddy of green house gas production in the former Soviet Union, completely unbridled burning of fossil fuels and other industrial emissions. Yes, the vast majority of power plants in the largest nation on Earth(in terms of land size) are all poorly maintained and engineered coal power plants, and it is true that what few environmental regulations they place on their hard industry of soft and rarely enforced, but I still think we should look past these issues to tackle the true explanation for global warming, the Soviet Climate Control device.

It’s no secret that during it’s rein the Soviet Union produced many top-notch scientists, who were put to work in the fields of weapon development and making even smaller dolls to stack inside of other dolls. While developing microscopic dolls, it seems entirely plausible to me that Russian scientists would not consider this work fulfilling, and being unable to leave the USSR to pursue opportunities in the private sector, these scientists would need to find a way to stimulate their creative minds. Finally, after years of discussion, leading scientists were able to convince Soviet authorities to let them start on a climate control device. The Ruskies at the top believed that this device would allow them to create natural disasters wherever they wanted, but the real motivation of the scientists would escape them until now.

So why would a bunch of Russia’s top doll-making scientists want to develop a climate control device? For the challenge, the prestige, the power? No. Because it’s cold in Russia. Unfortunately for them the Soviet Union fell and so did their funding so they were only able to raise the average tempurature by about 1 degree, and right now they aren’t even sure if they did it or if it’s just coincidence, but they do know one thing. It’s still cold in Russia.