Have you looked at the North Pole lately?

[St. Phatty]

They don't have any "management' of any type when it comes to the environment. Certainly not like Finland where they rake the forest floor. biggrin

I doubt they have forest management in any real sense of the word. Walking the bush with your babushka is about as management as it gets.

China's worst wildfire was in 1987 on the Russian border.

GOD ALMIGHTY !!! Russia should try some genuine "foreign relations" and help China out when there's a fire that straddles the border.

It was in Northeast China & earned the name "Black Dragon Fire". Major death toll, China had all their firefighters on the front lines.

and Russia ... just sat there.

named the "Heilongjiang" fire (Heilong = Black Dragon).

The part of Russia that got burned ... Siberia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Black_Dragon_fire

 

[trichrider]

lol

Regardless. Don't you think we have something to worry about? I hear people say the same as you do. But I certainly don't see any of them offering up a valid reason let alone a solution.

And can you tell me when it's "just an event" and when it's something to be concerned about? Just asking.

since you asked.
i've been attempting to offer an alternative to the CO2 myth, but it seems it has fallen on deaf ears.
throughout this thread i've posted relative articles of a much greater influence of the electromagnetic interaction of the solar wind on our atmosphere and magnetic field. ignored...

would you view and comment on this NASA page of the solar wind on Mars? here is the content from NASA website.

May 25, 2020
RELEASE 20-011
MAVEN Maps Electric Currents around Mars that are Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss

Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
“These currents play a fundamental role in the atmospheric loss that transformed Mars from a world that could have supported life into an inhospitable desert,” said experimental physicist Robin Ramstad of the University of Colorado, Boulder. “We are now currently working on using the currents to determine the precise amount of energy that is drawn from the solar wind and powers atmospheric escape.” Ramstad is lead author of a paper on this research published May 25 in Nature Astronomy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=241&v=KkKak9bNGjU&feature=emb_title

MAVEN data have enabled the first map of the electric current systems (blue and red arrows) that shape the induced magnetic field surrounding Mars.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS
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Earth has such current systems, too: we can even see them in the form of colorful displays of light in the night sky near the polar regions known as the aurora, or northern and southern lights. Earth's aurora are strongly linked to currents, generated by the interaction of the Earth’s magnetic field with the solar wind, that flow along vertical magnetic field lines into the atmosphere, concentrating in the polar regions. Studying the flow of electricity thousands of miles above our heads, though, only tells part of the story about the situation on Mars. The difference lies in the planets’ respective magnetic fields, because while Earth’s magnetism comes from within, Mars’ does not.


Planetary magnetic fields
Earth’s magnetism comes from its core, where molten, electrically conducting iron flows beneath the crust. Its magnetic field is global, meaning it surrounds the entire planet. Since Mars is a rocky, terrestrial planet like Earth, one might assume that the same kind of magnetic paradigm functions there, too. However, Mars does not generate a magnetic field on its own, outside of relatively small patches of magnetized crust. Something different from what we observe on Earth must be happening on the Red Planet.


What’s going on above Mars?
The solar wind, made up largely of electrically charged electrons and protons, blows constantly from the Sun at around a million miles per hour. It flows around and interacts with the objects in our solar system. The solar wind is also magnetized and this magnetic field cannot easily penetrate the upper atmosphere of non-magnetized planets like Mars. Instead, currents that it induces in the planet’s ionosphere cause a pile-up and strengthening of the magnetic field, creating a so-called induced magnetosphere. How the solar wind powers this induced magnetosphere at Mars has not been well understood until now.
As solar wind ions and electrons smash into this stronger induced magnetic field near Mars, they are forced to flow apart due to their opposite electric charge. Some ions flow in one direction, some electrons in the other direction, forming electric currents that drape around from the dayside to the nightside of the planet. At the same time, solar x-rays and ultraviolet radiation constantly ionize some of the upper atmosphere on Mars, turning it into a combination of electrons and electrically charged ions that can conduct electricity.



This image is from a scientific visualization of the electric currents around Mars. Electric currents (blue and red arrows) envelop Mars in a nested, double-loop structure that wraps continuously around the planet from its day side to its night side. These current loops distort the solar wind magnetic field (not pictured), which drapes around Mars to create an induced magnetosphere around the planet. In the process, the currents electrically connect Mars’ upper atmosphere and the induced magnetosphere to the solar wind, transferring electric and magnetic energy generated at the boundary of the induced magnetosphere (faint inner paraboloid) and at the solar wind bow shock (faint outer paraboloid).
Credits: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS/Cindy Starr

“Mars’ atmosphere behaves a bit like a metal sphere closing an electric circuit,” Ramstad said. “The currents flow in the upper atmosphere, with the strongest current layers persisting at 120-200 kilometers (about 75-125 miles) above the planet’s surface.” Both MAVEN and previous missions have seen localized hints of these current layers before, but they have never before been able to map the complete circuit, from its generation in the solar wind, to where the electrical energy is deposited in the upper atmosphere.
Directly detecting these currents in space is infamously difficult. Fortunately, the currents distort the magnetic fields in the solar wind, detectable by MAVEN’s sensitive magnetometer. The team used MAVEN to map out the average magnetic field structure around Mars in three dimensions and calculated the currents directly from their distortions of the magnetic field structure.
“With a single elegant operation, the strength and paths of the currents pop out of this map of the magnetic field,” Ramstad said.


The Red Planet’s destiny
Without a global magnetic field surrounding Mars, the currents induced in the solar wind can form a direct electrical connection to the Martian upper atmosphere. The currents transform the energy of the solar wind into magnetic and electric fields that accelerate charged atmospheric particles into space, driving atmospheric escape to space. The new results reveal several unexpected features particular to MAVEN’s goal to understand atmospheric escape: the energy that drives escape appears to be drawn from a much larger volume than was often assumed.
Solar-wind-driven atmospheric loss has been active for billions of years and contributed to the transformation of Mars from a warm and wet planet that could have harbored life into a global cold desert. MAVEN is continuing to explore how this process works and how much of the planet’s atmosphere has been lost.
This research was funded by the MAVEN mission. MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, and NASA Goddard manages the MAVEN project. NASA is exploring our Solar System and beyond, uncovering worlds, stars, and cosmic mysteries near and far with our powerful fleet of space and ground-based missions.


https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2020/mars-electric-currents


you must certainly be aware that Earths magnetic field is moving and weakening. this has an effect on the atmosphere because of the global electric circuit exchanges energy (electrical) from the solar wind and interior of the planet.
this exchange creates eddies by the Coriolis effect in the heavier atmosphere called high and low pressure cells. these cells reflect by their movement the 'right-hand rule' of electrical conductivity.
the movement of the cells indicate whether there is a current moving into or out of the surface of the planet.


May 20, 2020
Swarm probes weakening of Earth's magnetic field
by European Space Agency


The magnetic field is thought to be largely generated by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up Earth’s the outer core 3000 km under our feet. Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing electromagnetic field. Other sources of magnetism come from minerals in Earth’s mantle and crust, while the ionosphere, magnetosphere and oceans also play a role. ESA’s constellation of three Swarm satellites is designed to identify and measure precisely these different magnetic signals. This will lead to new insight into many natural processes, from those occurring deep inside the planet, to weather in space caused by solar activity. Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab
In an area stretching from Africa to South America, Earth's magnetic field is gradually weakening. This strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites orbiting Earth. Scientists are using data from ESA's Swarm constellation to improve our understanding of this area known as the 'South Atlantic Anomaly.'
Earth's magnetic field is vital to life on our planet. It is a complex and dynamic force that protects us from cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The magnetic field is largely generated by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up the outer core around 3000 km beneath our feet. Acting as a spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it creates electrical currents, which in turn, generate our continuously changing electromagnetic field.
This field is far from static and varies both in strength and direction. For example, recent studies have shown that the position of the north magnetic pole is changing rapidly.
Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has lost around 9% of its strength on a global average. A large region of reduced magnetic intensity has developed between Africa and South America and is known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
From 1970 to 2020, the minimum field strength in this area has dropped from around 24 000 nanoteslas to 22 000, while at the same time the area of the anomaly has grown and moved westward at a pace of around 20 km per year. Over the past five years, a second centre of minimum intensity has emerged southwest of Africa—indicating that the South Atlantic Anomaly could split up into two separate cells.

The South Atlantic Anomaly refers to an area where our protective shield is weak. This animation shows the magnetic field strength at Earth’s surface from 2014-2020 based on data collected by the Swarm satellite constellation. Credit: Division of Geomagnetism, DTU Space Earth's magnetic field is often visualised as a powerful dipolar bar magnet at the centre of the planet, tilted at around 11° to the axis of rotation. However, the growth of the South Atlantic Anomaly indicates that the processes involved in generating the field are far more complex. Simple dipolar models are unable to account for the recent development of the second minimum.
Scientists from the Swarm Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) are using data from ESA's Swarm satellite constellation to better understand this anomaly. Swarm satellites are designed to identify and precisely measure the different magnetic signals that make up Earth's magnetic field.

Jürgen Matzka, from the German Research Centre for Geosciences, says, "The new, eastern minimum of the South Atlantic Anomaly has appeared over the last decade and in recent years is developing vigorously. We are very lucky to have the Swarm satellites in orbit to investigate the development of the South Atlantic Anomaly. The challenge now is to understand the processes in Earth's core driving these changes."
It has been speculated whether the current weakening of the field is a sign that Earth is heading for an eminent pole reversal—in which the north and south magnetic poles switch places. Such events have occurred many times throughout the planet's history and even though we are long overdue by the average rate at which these reversals take place (roughly every 250 000 years), the intensity dip in the South Atlantic occurring now is well within what is considered normal levels of fluctuations.

The South Atlantic Anomaly refers to an area where our protective shield is weak. White dots on the map indicate individual events when Swarm instruments registered the impact of radiation from April 2014 to August 2019. The background is the magnetic field strength at the satellite altitude of 450 km. Credit: Division of Geomagnetism, DTU Space At surface level, the South Atlantic Anomaly presents no cause for alarm. However, satellites and other spacecraft flying through the area are more likely to experience technical malfunctions as the magnetic field is weaker in this region, so charged particles can penetrate the altitudes of low-Earth orbit satellites.


The mystery of the origin of the South Atlantic Anomaly has yet to be solved. However, one thing is certain: magnetic field observations from Swarm are providing exciting new insights into the scarcely understood processes of Earth's interior.

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-swarm-probes-weakening-earth-magnetic.html

it is my opinion that solar interaction has a more profound effect on atmospheric and ocean movement than the constituents of the atmosphere, particularly the tiny fraction of the atmosphere that CO2 comprises.
i do not think, believe, or surmise that there is some hidden danger in the anomalies that is represented by the heat wave in Siberia. mooseeater posted his experience that Alaskan interior temperatures sometimes reached the century mark, but i failed to see any relevance to a bonafied catastrophe.
please do respond, i'd honestly like to know how you will twist this post to support your beliefs.

in bold to differentiate my words from the articles.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

since you asked.
i've been attempting to offer an alternative to the CO2 myth, but it seems it has fallen on deaf ears.
throughout this thread i've posted relative articles of a much greater influence of the electromagnetic interaction of the solar wind on our atmosphere and magnetic field. ignored...

... [snip]...

it is my opinion that solar interaction has a more profound effect on atmospheric and ocean movement than the constituents of the atmosphere, particularly the tiny fraction of the atmosphere that CO2 comprises.
i do not think, believe, or surmise that there is some hidden danger in the anomalies that is represented by the heat wave in Siberia. mooseeater posted his experience that Alaskan interior temperatures sometimes reached the century mark, but i failed to see any relevance to a bonafied catastrophe.
please do respond, i'd honestly like to know how you will twist this post to support your beliefs.

in bold to differentiate my words from the articles.

I'm glad you said "In my opinion." That says it all. Now unless you work at nasa and know something we don't, you're going to continue to be ridiculed. Using those two articles to argue for a possible link to global warming (fuck the republican climate change moniker), is like using the weather on Mars as a reason my cat acts weird during a full moon.

No wonder your posts are ignored. THEY MAKE NO SENSE and don't even relate to the topic at hand.

Instead of cutting and pasting random articles, make an argument that has a point.

Actually, let me continue ignoring your posts.

 

[kickarse]

Global warming must make it snow a lot

 

[TychoMonolyth]

[URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=79344&pictureid=2043051&thumb=1]View Image[/url] Global warming must make it snow a lot
[URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=79344&pictureid=2043050&thumb=1]View Image[/url]

Ya. That's why Glaciers are melting. More heavy snow creates more pressure. And we all know compressing something creates heat right?

 

[igrowone]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=79344&pictureid=2043051View Image Global warming must make it snow a lot
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=79344&pictureid=2043050View Image

interesting post kickarse, you are indeed becoming a bit of a climate researcher
but along with this increased depth comes a lessened snow coverage
also well documented there's less snow cover over the northern hemisphere from year to year
and you're RIGHT, it does seem to snow more at certain times and places
change my friend, change, the times they are a changing

 

[trichrider]

Actually, let me continue ignoring your posts.

please do.
since it is so hard for you to wrap your brain around the physics.
these are my opinions formed from quite a few years of studying the science.
not so hard to do, you should try it.


but no, you have nothing.
you worried about the CO2 content in the air? that is your problem.
you worried that your precious earth will dissolve into a waterworld, and you can't swim.lol...or is it that that atrocious heat will melt you?


i for one am thanking the higher power for providing the warmth that makes it habitable in the short tenure of my existence, and you're growling about something no one has any control over. it a helluva lot easier to live with heat than not...and that is my opinion among others.


please, i said, reply to the science and you did not....you again attacked me.

if you're so smart that you can contradict the science that i've continued to post here (by the good grace of Igrowone and Gypsy) then promptly do so. show everyone how smart you are to denounce my opinion by posting your evidence.



i had a gut feeling you would try and twist whatever i posted...again an ad hominem reply.
i'll say it again, you got nothing. saying what i post is irrelevant is not an argument of the science.



https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JB018073
Research Article
A Thick Negative Polarity Anomaly in a Sediment Core From the Central Arctic Ocean: Geomagnetic Excursion Versus Reversal

Jianxing Liu
Xuefa Shi
Yanguang Liu
Qingsong Liu
Yan Liu
Qiang Zhang
Shulan Ge
Jinhua Li



First published: 24 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018073
Citations: 1

Abstract

There are two distinctly different views on Quaternary sedimentation rates in the central Arctic Ocean, namely, that they were on cm/kyr or on mm/kyr scales, largely as a result of divergent interpretations of magnetic reversal stratigraphy. This study provides new evidence to help resolve this controversy in the form of an almost 1‐m‐thick negative polarity interval located at ~1.15 m below the seafloor in a 4.15‐m‐long sediment core from the Lomonosov Ridge, central Arctic Ocean. This thick polarity anomaly was first revealed through alternating field demagnetization of natural remanent magnetization on u‐channel samples. It was subsequently confirmed to be an authentic signal of a syndepositional geomagnetic field by integrating detailed rock magnetic studies, transmission electron microscopy with energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy analyses of magnetic extracts, and both alternating field and thermal demagnetization of discrete paleomagnetic samples. Here we conclude that it is more reasonable to interpret the reversed interval as a record of the Matuyama Chron rather than a Brunhes‐aged excursion, which yields mean sedimentation rates of ~1.5 mm/kyr and ~0.5 mm/kyr in the Brunhes and Matuyama Chrons, respectively. These estimates are remarkably lower than assumed in most recent studies, but in good agreement with both previous magnetostratigraphic and recent geochemical studies relative to the decay of Be and U‐series isotopes, which might indicate “sediment‐starved” environments at least in some parts of this region. Overall, our results not only imply that chronostratigraphy in the central Arctic Ocean remains open to debate but also warrant further investigations in this microfossil‐barren region.


Research Article
Statistical Analysis of Joule Heating and Thermosphere Response during Geomagnetic Storms of Different Magnitudes

Xin Wang
Juan Miao
Ercha Aa
Tingling Ren
Yuxian Wang
Ji Liu
Siqing Liu



First published: 15 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027966


Research Letter
Climate model projections of 21st century global warming constrained using the observed warming trend

Yongxiao Liang
Nathan P. Gillett
Adam H. Monahan



First published: 10 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086757


Research Article
The Polar Wind Modulated by the Spatial Inhomogeneity of the Strength of the Earth's Magnetic Field

Kun Li
Matthias Förster
Zhaojin Rong
Stein Haaland
Elena Kronberg
Jun Cui
Lihui Chai
Yong Wei



First published: 25 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027802


and the hits keep on coming....

 

[Sunshineinabag]

China's worst wildfire was in 1987 on the Russian border.

GOD ALMIGHTY !!! Russia should try some genuine "foreign relations" and help China out when there's a fire that straddles the border.

It was in Northeast China & earned the name "Black Dragon Fire". Major death toll, China had all their firefighters on the front lines.

and Russia ... just sat there.

named the "Heilongjiang" fire (Heilong = Black Dragon).

The part of Russia that got burned ... Siberia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Black_Dragon_fire

Fuk China .....they need to be turned into a glass factory. Now they are fuken with india

 

[hard rain]

Fuk China .....they need to be turned into a glass factory. Now they are fuken with india

No where on earth should be tuned into a "glass factory" if I'm taking your meaning the right way.
What a disgusting thing to write.

 

[1G12]

One of the coldest places on Earth is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave

One of the coldest places on Earth is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave

Luke Denne and Olivia Sumrie, NBC News•May 29, 2020


One of the coldest regions on earth has been experiencing a record-breaking heat wave in recent weeks amid growing fears about devastating wildfires and melting permafrost.

Khatanga, a town in Siberia’s Arctic Circle, registered highs of over 80 degrees Fahrenheit this week, according to Accuweather, far above the 59 degrees F historical average, as the whole of western Siberia basked in unseasonable warmth.

While locals flocked to popular spots to sunbathe, experts sounded alarms about the possible implications for the region’s wildfire season this summer, with some blazes already breaking out in recent months.

Fires burned huge areas in the region last year and, at its peak, smoke engulfed an area larger than the whole European Union, the World Meteorological Organization reported.

“It is very much possible that this year, we will have another fire catastrophe in Siberia,” Anton Beneslavskiy, a wildfire expert with Greenpeace Russia, said.

“Catastrophes became the new business as usual for Siberia in the last 20 years,” he added.

From January to April, Russia was 11 degrees F warmer than average, according to the climate science nonprofit Berkeley Earth.

“That's not only a new record anomaly for Russia. That's the largest January to April anomaly ever seen in any country's national average,” Robert Rohde, Berkeley Earth lead scientist tweeted.

The pace of global warming in Russia is over twice as fast as the global average, Russia's deputy U.N. envoy said last year. But the situation in the Arctic is even more stark with the region warming at over three times the global average.

Much of the Arctic region is covered by permafrost — carbon rich soil that should remain frozen throughout the year — and rapid warming is causing it to melt, said Thomas Smith, an assistant professor of environmental geography at the London School of Economics.

 

[St. Phatty]

Got final numbers for Australia's 2019 wildfires.

46 million acres burned.

the unfortunate record for modern times is 47 million acres of Siberia burning in 2003.

 

[trichrider]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russias-arctic-empire
Russia's Arctic Empire

by Tyler Durden
Sat, 05/30/2020 - 07:00
Authored by Lawrence Franklin via The Gatestone Institute,


Moscow sent a spectacular message last month to the world's other Arctic powers: Russia is determined to dominate the region. Russian transport aircraft, breaking the record for the highest altitude jump ever, parachuted a group of their Spetsnaz (Special Forces) over the Arctic. from a height of almost 33,000 feet (Mt. Everest is 29,000 feet). Russian paratroops then executed a military exercise operation before reassembling at the Nagurskoye base, the northernmost military facility in Russia.

Any rival's attempt to catch up and surpass Moscow's head start in the Arctic is unlikely to succeed. Russia has a geopolitical advantage in that its sovereign land abuts over half of the Arctic's territorial waters. Historically, Russia's czars and commissars were frustrated in their attempts to secure warm-water ports, which would have benefited commerce and military force projection. Now, with environmental warming and subsequent accelerating ice-melt in the Arctic Ocean, Moscow appears poised to control the newest maritime corridor, "the Northeast Passage." This waterway will unite Russian Europe with Russia's Far East provinces adjacent to Pacific waters.
The "Northeast Passage" could shorten the transshipment of goods from Asian countries to Europe by two weeks, rather than shipping goods through the Suez Canal route.
For centuries, ships could navigate only sections of the Arctic a few months of the year. If present climatic warming trends continue, however, and probably even if they do not, Russia seems to be expecting exclusively to exploit the region's vast energy, mineral and fishing resources, at least within the legal limits of its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone beyond its land borders.
Russia's northwestern Arctic territory of the Kola Peninsula accounts for large portions of the country's nickel and copper output, as does Norilsk in East Siberia. The Arctic region also accounts for most of Russia's tin extraction. Russian mining centers within the Arctic Circle produce valuable minerals, such as diamonds in the Yakutia Republic in Russia's Far East, as well as palladium, platinum, selenium and cobalt. Probably the most famous minerals are the area's legendary gold deposits in the Kolyma area.
Russia's claim of exclusivity, or at least its special ties, to the Arctic are of long-standing. Moscow first claimed sovereignty over all the islands in the Arctic Sea north of its Eurasian land mass as early as 1926, and repeated this claim in 1928 and again in 1950. Russia's claim of sovereign control of these islands, along with its nearly 25,000 kilometers of Arctic coastline, is considered part of the country's historical patrimony and, therefore, its ownership supposedly non-negotiable.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin seemed to be underscoring that axiom in his 2017 visit to the Franz Josef Land archipelago, the northernmost outpost in a region, where Russia's claim of sovereignty includes 463,000 square miles of territory. All the same, these Russian claims have not yet been adjudicated by international law courts, the United Nations, or by any bilateral or multilateral treaty. Russia's assertiveness, and the failure of the other Arctic nations to corral Moscow into negotiating definitive boundary treaties, leave significant potential for misunderstanding and serious international incidents in the Arctic seas. Russia's blanket claims of territorial sovereignty pose a direct challenge to "Law of the Sea" conventions such as the "Freedom of Navigation" (FON) principle, championed by the U.S. and other Free World navies. The FON concept permits foreign vessels freely to ply waters outside the internationally recognized 12 nautical mile limit of sovereign national waters.
One longstanding territorial dispute fraught with tension is seen in the conflicting claims by Russia and NATO members Denmark and Canada over ownership of the Lomonosov Ridge. Nevertheless, some historical territorial counterclaims are negotiable, like the decades-old dispute between Russia and Norway over which country controlled the waters of the Barents Sea. Russia and Norway resolved the issue amicably in September 2010 with each country settling for 175,000 square km of the Barents waters.
The Kremlin continues integrating its industrial and military infrastructure in its Far North project, begun over a century ago. Pointedly, between 2015 and 2016, Moscow constructed six new military bases, at Aleksandra Land, Novaya Zemlya, Sredny Island, Wrangel Island, Kotelny Island, and Camp Schmidt. Russia maintains strict vigilance of the skies over its Arctic realm, and stations medium-range surface-to-air missile systems to assure control of its airspace. Russia's military has also deployed a polar-capable version of its latest air defense weapon, the S-400. Lessons learned from the Red Army's World War II winter combat against Germany's invading forces guarantees that all Russian military weapons systems are operable at -50 degrees Celsius.
Russia, in addition, has a natural geopolitical and cultural advantage over rivals for hegemony in the land and waters in the Arctic Circle. Russian citizens seem more acclimated to the frigid climate of the far northern regions, as evidenced by Russia's several large urban population centers in the far north such as: Murmansk, Vorkuta, Norilsk, and Tiksi.
Underscoring Russia's apparent determination to dominate the Northern Sea Route (NSR) once the passage is completely navigable, Moscow has already proffered a jurisdictional regime to manage all commerce. Russia's proposed NSR administration entails a mandatory 45-day advance application for right of passage, a hefty fee for passage, and the boarding of every vessel by a native Russian pilot to guide the ship into port. The U.S. will not likely comply with this proposal, as the U.S. Navy firmly adheres to the principle of mare liberum ("freedom of the seas"). In recent decades, the U.S. Navy has conducted hundreds of "Freedom of Navigation" military exercises around the world, and now may have to intensify such missions in the high north to prevent Moscow's unchallenged dominance of the Arctic region.

The aspirations of the five polar nations -- Russia, Denmark, Norway, Canada and the U.S. -- may also have to contend with the ambitions of the People's Republic of China. In the recent past, China and Russia have cooperated in navigation and commercial operation in the Arctic. Russia, owner of the world's largest fleet of icebreakers, has on occasion deployed these vessels to escort Chinese maritime convoys in the far North's frigid seas. It was Russia that also pioneered the building of the first nuclear-powered icebreaker, The Lenin, when passage in the Russian far north was restricted to the period from mid-July through the end of September. China is now busy producing its own icebreakers to ply Arctic waters. China evidently sees the Northern Corridor as a "Polar Silk Road" that will facilitate two-way commerce from Asia to the European Union. Now that the Northern Sea Route fully materialized last August, Russo-Chinese cooperation might also include China's financing of cash-strapped Russia's formidable development plans for military bases and modern ports. China's insatiable appetite for coal has likely caused Beijing to cast an avaricious eye toward the Russian Arctic's vast coal deposits in the Siberian region of Kemerovo, not far from the Sino-Russian border.
Perhaps a prudent path for the U.S. and Free World countries to adopt in the Arctic, given Moscow's comprehensive advance and the China-Russia tandem, would be to maintain its nuclear submarine superiority while closely monitoring Russia's own Northern Fleet, which is based in the Arctic port city of Murmansk. NATO successfully carried out this mission during the Cold War.
The U.S. and Russia remain quite capable of executing their most critical Arctic mission: over-the-pole attacks. While bilateral fail-safe procedures are in place to lessen the risk of such a catastrophe, unresolved differences in the Arctic region raise the prospect for miscalculation.
One such difference is Moscow's periodic claims that several of the seas adjacent to its land borders are "internal seas" or "historical sovereign waters," barring foreign maritime traffic. Occasionally, Kremlin spokespersons have designated that the Sea of Ohkotsk off the far eastern Russian coast is an "internal sea" and, as such, is Russian sovereign territory. That claim remains unresolved and vigorously disputed by both the U.S. and Japan. This is but one potential Arctic flashpoint of many likely to arise.

 

[St. Phatty]

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/8699...s-thousands-of-tons-of-oil-into-arctic-region

Russia is in the middle of a diesel fuel spill comparable to the Exxon Valdez spill.

and Russia is saying the cause is ... thawing permafrost ... for which fuel storage tanks were not designed.

 

[trichrider]

Russia contains huge Arctic oil spill, ministry says
Issued on: 05/06/2020 - 15:15Modified: 05/06/2020 - 15:15

A European Space Agency photo shows part of a satellite image captured on June 1, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission of the extent of an oil spill after some 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil leaked into the Ambarnaya river within the Arctic Circle. © EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP
Text by: NEWS WIRES

Russia has managed to contain a massive diesel spill into a river in the Arctic, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry told AFP on Friday.

"We have stopped the spread of the petroleum products," the spokeswoman for the taskforce in charge of the accident clean-up said.


"They are contained in all directions, they are not going anywhere now."


Environmentalists said the oil spill, which took place last Friday, was the worst such accident ever in the Arctic region.
The accident happened when a diesel reservoir collapsed at a power station outside the northern Siberian city of Norilsk.
It caused 15,000 tonnes of fuel to leak into a river and 6,000 tonnes into the soil, according to Russia's state environmental watchdog.


The power plant is owned by a subsidiary of Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel.


President Vladimir Putin has ordered a state of emergency to deal with the disaster and Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev flew in to manage the clean-up operation that currently involves around 100 people.


Zinichev was set to report back to Putin later Friday.


Greenpeace: Spill compares to Exxon Valdez
Greenpeace Russia said it was the "first accident of such a scale in the Arctic" and comparable to the Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska in 1989.


The Ambarnaya River, which is affected by the spill, feeds into Lake Pyasino, a major body of water and the source of the Pyasina River that is vitally important to the entire Taimyr peninsula.

The clean-up operation placed oil containment booms in the Ambarnaya River to stop the diesel fuel going into the lake and was using special devices to skim off the fuel.


The emergencies ministry spokeswoman said that "we managed to stop (the spread) thanks to the booms".


The ministry said Friday it had removed more than 200 tonnes of the fuel.


The spill also polluted 180,000 square metres of land before hitting the river, regional prosecutors said.


https://www.france24.com/en/2020060...oil-spill-ministry-says?utm_source=whatfinger

 

[St. Phatty]

seems like, just lighting the fuel on fire is the best way to protect the environment.

that way most of it just turns to CO2 & water, before it gets a chance to poison wells etc.

Sounds like Putey Baby might have some job openings at Norilsk.

 

[Phaeton]

Valentines Day, 1978, over half a million gallons of oil spilled into a permafrost layered valley about six miles out from Fairbanks.
A lot of it was sucked up but with summer coming and tens of thousands of gallons of oil soaking the shrubberies the decision was made to burn the oil before it continued spreading.

Burning got rid of over 90% of the remaining oil and the area recovered within four years. Similar to wildfire damage.

Russia needs to light the surface oil now rather than letting it coat all life trapped in the spill zone.
Damage from the Exxon Valdez is still ongoing decades later because the oil cannot be wiped off plants and animals, it does not work like that.

Burn it now.

 

[Cool Moe]

What are the odds that trich has a poster in his room of Putin riding a horse?

 

[trichrider]

What are the odds that trich has a poster in his room of Putin riding a horse?

what are the odds moe got that pacifier out of a bag of dicks?

 

[igrowone]

tied the last record with May 2016
in other words it's still getting warmer

Monthly Temperature: May 2020

The global land and ocean surface temperature for May 2020 tied with 2016 as the highest in the 141-year record at 0.95°C (1.71°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F). The 10 warmest Mays have all occurred since 1998; however, the 2014–2020 Mays are the seven warmest in the 141-year record. May 2020 also marked the 44th consecutive May and the 425th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average.

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Warmer-than-average temperatures were present across much of the globe during May 2020, with the most notable temperatures departures across parts of northern and southeastern Asia, northern Africa, Alaska, the southwest contiguous U.S., and the northern Pacific Ocean, where temperatures were 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the 1981–2010 average or higher. Record-warm May temperatures were observed across parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as well as parts of western Europe, Central and Southern America, Africa, and Asia. Overall, May 2020 had 7.55% of the world's land and ocean surfaces with a record high May temperature. This was the third highest percentage for May record warm temperatures since records began in 1951, behind 2016 (11.85%) and 2010 (8.42%). Meanwhile, the most notable cool temperatures were observed across much of Canada, the eastern contiguous U.S., eastern Europe, and Australia, with temperatures at least 1.0°C (1.8°F) below average. However, no land or ocean areas had record-cold May temperatures.

May 2020 Blended Land and Sea Surface
Temperature Anomalies in degrees Celsius

May 2020 Blended Land and Sea Surface
Temperature Percentiles
The global land-only surface temperature for May 2020 was also the highest on record at 1.39°C (2.50°F) above the 20th century average of 11.1°C (52.0°F). This was 0.04°C (0.07°F) above the previous record set in 2012. The 10 highest May global land-only surface temperature departures have occurred since 2010.
The May 2020 global ocean-only surface temperature was near-record warm at 0.79°C (1.42°F) above average. This value was only 0.01°C (0.02°F) shy of tying the record warm May of 2016.
The Northern Hemisphere global land and ocean surface temperature departure was also the highest on record at 1.19°C (2.14°F) above average. This value exceeded the previous record set in 2015 and, again in 2016, by 0.10°C (0.18°F). Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere global land and ocean surface temperature departure of +0.72°C (+1.30°F) tied with 1998 as the fifth highest May temperature on record.
Regionally, Asia had its warmest May on record at 2.09°C (3.76°F) above average, surpassing the now second-warmest May set in 2012 by 0.25°C (0.45°F). May 2020 also marked the first time Asia's May temperature departure from average surpassed 2.0°C (3.6°F). May 2020 was Asia's 27th consecutive May with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 1919–2000 average. Meanwhile, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean region had a May temperature that ranked among the six warmest Mays on record.

 

[kickarse]

What a load of bullshit

but at least they got Australia right this time lol

1981-2010, what happened to 1950-1980 or 1960 -1990, they keep changing shit to whatever suits the warming narrative I suppose

we have been having a ripper of a winter here, sunny as, its much better then the constant rain and black clouds of the last few winters

still below average tho lol

its been 40 years of global warming, and nothing has changed