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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by misja111 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:53AM (#35871995)
From a purely Russian-centric point of view, is global warming even a bad thing? Russia has huge stretches of land that are mostly useless for farming because of the cold. Not to mention the Arctic region, which they could traverse by ship if most of the ice would be molten.
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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by jemmyw on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:32AM (#35872262)
As I understand it that land won't become arable.
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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by h0l0cube on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:38AM (#35872312)
What’s your understanding based on?
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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by jemmyw on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:07AM (#35873764)
https://www.climatechangepost.com/russia/agriculture-and-hor...

Sounds complex. There are open questions as to whether those regions that open up for farming would have the soil to support it. And whether reduction in rainfall elsewhere in Russia would cancel out the gains. They have already benefited from current warming.

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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by foverzar on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:51AM (#35884440)
> They have already benefited from current warming.

I assure you, no one had noticed anything substantial.

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Re:‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed by h0l0cube on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:00AM (#35872038)
I almost mentioned that. Russia are possibly worse than ‘hands off’ when it comes to encouraging global warming

Edit: probably changed to possibly. Downvoted immediately because who knows?

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