On Politics, War by Other Means — 05

If you suggest that the war in Ukraine is related to Climate Change, people tell you Putin doesn’t care about “Climate Change”.

People are idiots.

Russia is already having 4℃ of warming

You can show them a map, making clear what “Global Warming” means in the physical world.

You can tell them that the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world : An important climatic indicator has been misreported by a factor of two

“When something is changing as quickly as the climate, numbers can get old and outdated quickly,” he says. “Before you realize it, you’re misinforming people by a factor of two.”

You can list some of the ways Global Warming is affecting Russia.

Wildfires in Siberia

Summer 2021, Yakutsk