You may be surprised to learn that when it comes to so-called global warming, Vladimir Putin is to the right of Jeb Bush. The president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. Putin's right!  It is a fraud to deindustrialize our countries. Russia's official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians "spend less on fur coats" while "agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that". Exactly.  Even if it were warming (which satellite data says it hasn't been, for 17 years), no one ever talks about the benefits of warming, especially to northern countries who have punishing winters and small...(Read Full Post)