Over the past four years, we have consistently noted that Russian aggression against Ukraine is a factor that negatively affects climate change processes and, accordingly, that it accelerates global warming.
Now, after the monstrous destruction of the ecosystems of the South of Ukraine, this objective fact can no longer be denied.
Also in recent months, a number of authoritative global analytical centers, such as the Washington-based “The Dekleptocracy Project”, have recognized that global warming is not only a consequence of Russia’s actions, but also a direct goal of the Kremlin, since in this way the northern territories of Eurasia controlled by the aggressor will supposedly “improve logistics and fertility”.
It is obvious that this simple fact will, to put it mildly, be negatively perceived by the countries of the so-called “Big South”, and therefore the aggressor’s propaganda is trying to simultaneously solve the problem of “covering up its tracks” and “calming the masses.”
Among a number of “talking heads” the other day, such a “Schrödinger’s kitten” was “taken out of the box” as “Assistant professor of the department of tourism” of the so-called “Tavrichesky academy of the Crimean federal university named after Vernadsky” Igor Vakhrushev.
Let us recall that a year ago this figure, the son of an “optimistic geographer”, “chairman of the department of the Russian geographical society” and “dean of the Faculty of geography” Boris Vakhrushev, who actually drew up his “dissertations and career”, stated that supposedly “for the next 20-30 years there will be no global drastic changes leading to cataclysms.”
Vakhrushev added that the rate of global warming supposedly “may not be related to the anthropogenic factor” and “is not so great.”
In January 2024, Igor Vakhrushev also stated that supposedly “all negative phenomena” in Crimea are supposedly “smoothed out”, since it is “surrounded on all sides by the sea”, and that supposedly “in Crimea the energy of the relief is not so high, which prevents it from provoking negative natural phenomena,” and also that “the mountains in Crimea are not so high, so even if floods occur, they do not have catastrophic consequences.”
Then we mocked how life refutes the “calm” from Vakhrushev, using the example of the “storm of the century” on November 26, 2023, and the “non-catastrophic” floods in Yevpatoria, Kerch and Yalta.
However, now Vakhrushev has decided to “update his repertoire” somewhat, stating that “due to global warming, Crimea is threatened not so much by an increase in temperature, which occurs gradually and to which they will get used,” and that “if our temperature rises by 1.5 degrees, . ..in Crimea, the holiday season may extend.”
Thus, the aggressor, through this “talking head,” is precisely trying to instill in the population the myth of the “benefits of warming.”
At the same time, Vakhrushev suggests that we should not be afraid of warming, but points to “natural, atmospheric phenomena that will intensify other phenomena – geomorphological processes: landslides, landslides, etc.” Obviously, the occupiers have now decided to “attribute” the crumbling Crimean infrastructure to “natural phenomena”, proposing to forget the recent “reassurances” from Vakhrushev that this supposedly does not “threaten” Crimea.
