Russian Scientists Refute Anthropogenic Thesis in Explaining Changing Climate

The recent publication of a paper by the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chaired by Sergei Glazyev, refuting the “anthropogenic origin” of climate change, presents a very interesting theory which was based on some of the late work of Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. While people will look at the more obvious factor here, namely, the changing relationship between the Sun and the Earth as a possible source of the “warming,” the Chief Researcher of the Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Science Dr. Leonid Bezrukov poses the hypotheses of the warming of the Earth’s surface and the oceans as a result of the radioactive decay of the potassium-40 isotope under the Earth’s surface, the power of which heat flow is about 1 watt per square meter, much more than the anthropogenic influence on the atmosphere.