<p>There are clear ways climate change can and does harm Russia: more frequent forest fires, floods, thawing permafrost. On the other hand, winter, says the latest IPCC report, is going to warm at a higher rate than summer, potentially making living in the country more, not less bearable.</p>
<p>Besides, there is at least one obvious economic advantage called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Sea_Route" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Northern Sea Route</a> (if not for the Russian people, then at least for Putin's mafioso buddy Ilya Traber wanted by the Spanish police for a range of crimes and who <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119194340/https://www.proekt.media/film/traber-porty/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">co-owns</a> the ports along the route).</p>
<p>Furthermore, a relatively recent study <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0282-y" rel="nofollow noreferrer">published in Nature</a> corroborates the suggestion that the benefits of climate change are going to outweigh the disadvantages for Russia.</p>
<p>Is Russia going to benefit from climate change? If so, is there any particular reason the Russian government should lift a finger about it (it's clear they don't care about the Maldives going underwater)?</p>
<p>I'm asking this in part because Putin's rhetoric in the recent year or so kind of changed: if at first, he was more <a href="https://meduza.io/feature/2019/07/11/putin-skazal-chto-vetryanye-elektrostantsii-izgonyayut-chervey-iz-zemli-i-ubivayut-ptits-eto-pravda" rel="nofollow noreferrer">worried</a> about worms being driven out of soil by wind turbines, later on he suddenly <a href="https://www.rbc.ru/society/31/10/2021/617e7edf9a79470a51305ed5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">started</a> to underscore the dangers that climate change poses for Russia.</p>

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2021-11-17T23:19:33.893Z
I was going to point you to the Ricke paper, but I see that's what you posted. You may want to focus your question and perhaps strip out the commentary.
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it looks to me like this is more politics than a question about earth science.if you remove the politics part this question can be re opened,as it is now it will be closed.
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Is Russia going to benefit from climate change?
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# Is Russia going to benefit from climate change?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-11-17)

There are clear ways climate change can and does harm Russia: more frequent forest fires, floods, thawing permafrost. On the other hand, winter, says the latest IPCC report, is going to warm at a higher rate than summer, potentially making living in the country more, not less bearable.

Besides, there is at least one obvious economic advantage called the [Northern Sea Route](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Sea_Route) (if not for the Russian people, then at least for Putin's mafioso buddy Ilya Traber wanted by the Spanish police for a range of crimes and who [co-owns](https://web.archive.org/web/20210119194340/https://www.proekt.media/film/traber-porty/) the ports along the route).

Furthermore, a relatively recent study [published in Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0282-y) corroborates the suggestion that the benefits of climate change are going to outweigh the disadvantages for Russia.

Is Russia going to benefit from climate change? If so, is there any particular reason the Russian government should lift a finger about it (it's clear they don't care about the Maldives going underwater)?

I'm asking this in part because Putin's rhetoric in the recent year or so kind of changed: if at first, he was more [worried](https://meduza.io/feature/2019/07/11/putin-skazal-chto-vetryanye-elektrostantsii-izgonyayut-chervey-iz-zemli-i-ubivayut-ptits-eto-pravda) about worms being driven out of soil by wind turbines, later on he suddenly [started](https://www.rbc.ru/society/31/10/2021/617e7edf9a79470a51305ed5) to underscore the dangers that climate change poses for Russia.

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> **username_1**: I was going to point you to the Ricke paper, but I see that's what you posted. You may want to focus your question and perhaps strip out the commentary.  
> **username_2**: it looks to me like this is more politics than a question about earth science.if you remove the politics part this question can be re opened,as it is now it will be closed.  

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