Sergei Obukhov, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation:

— Our scientists, thank God, refute all apocalyptic forecasts. But the Western man in the street was completely intimidated by these horror stories. 89 percent of people in the world are afraid of losing their jobs, 74 percent of inflation and 76 percent of nuclear war and climate crisis. Meanwhile, ice in the Arctic has exceeded a 25-year maximum. So we have to live and live until the ice age!

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      Most of the article is complaining about the horrible disaster it would be if the entire world suddenly stopped using fossil fuels completely tomorrow without any plan or infrastructure to transition. Nobody is seriously proposing this as a solution, and this would never and could never happen in reality.

      German electricity consumption is below 1978 level under the Greens. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3297071

      Edit: Also I am aware of how climate works, 2024 being a record year isn’t anything significant. But many predictions have been made of ice-free summers by 2030, yet it’s 2024 and we didn’t even reach 50% in the 2012 anomaly and the decade + after.

      Here’s are scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they published a peer-reviewed study on cooling in Northern China They reported to have found no evidence of anthropogenic warming, but haven’t ruled it out either. They are concerned of a strengthening cooling trend. https://www.sott.net/article/418422-Global-cooling-to-replace-warming-trend-that-started-4000-years-ago-Chinese-scientists

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          I said "They reported to have found no evidence of anthropogenic warming, but haven’t ruled it out either. ", never claimed global warming isn’t real, in fact I showed the rate of global warming predicted by the Russian model in another reply and observations.

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          Real-world counter-example of a rapid drop in the use of fossil fuels leading to a decline in living standards.

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            Except that Germany is reopening coal mines? The drop in electricity is clearly connected to the sanctions in 2022 and the increase in fossil fuel prices. Not some grand “globalist” scheme to drop fossil fuels altogether.