The West is Using Global Warming as a Tool for Command/Control of their Own People and Others

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Firstly, Lavrov reminded his interlocutor about how a lot of Western wealth is derived from lopsided deals with the Global South, which is being exploited through neo-colonialism.

For example, only 2.6% of the US $2.5 billion of aid to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, reached companies and organizations there, while the rest went into the pockets of American contractors.

Another damning statistic he cited is how African countries only get 10% of the global coffee industry’s profits.

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The IMF and WTO have been politicized by the West to keep developing countries at a disadvantage, effectively in bondage

Despite high-sounding rhetoric, the West has yet to meaningfully reform these institutions and won’t ever do so willingly.

“Therefore, Russia and like-minded people from the countries of the World Majority believe it is high time to bring the principles and management system of the Bretton Woods institutions in line with the real situation in the world economy”, he said.

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Lavrov added that the G7 countries have less than a third of the world GDP, and the BRICS member states - 36 percent”, thus illustrating how unfair everything has become.

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It’s therefore strongly implied that BRICS, including Indonesia, plus its new partner countries, should collectively pool their capabilities and coordinate their efforts to bring about long-overdue institutional reforms.

This imperative adds context to why Russia wanted to resume relations with the IMF in September as explained here.

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Secondly, Lavrov explained how the global trend towards green energy shouldn’t come at the expense of investments in traditional energy, which could lead to “shocks in energy markets and aggravation of the problem of energy poverty.”

He strongly implied the prevailing view on climate change is inaccurate and being politicized. Here are his exact words:

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“It is implied that CO2 emissions create a greenhouse effect, which in turn leads to global warming. It is concluded that if CO2 emissions are limited, there will be no increase in temperature or it will not happen as quickly. At the same time, we as professionals must take into account not all scientists adhere to such assessments.

There is also a ‘school of thought’ whose representatives, using specific facts and very convincingly, show climate change is a cyclical process, and, therefore, the significance of the anthropogenic factor in the calculations of supporters of the ‘fight against climate change’, to put it mildly, is greatly exaggerated by the West, mostly for self-serving purposes.

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See Appendix at bottom of article

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The West is weaponizing the ‘green agenda’, both as part of a ploy to “aggravate the problem of energy poverty” in the Global South via higher costs for traditional energy, and as an instrument of command/control at home and abroad.

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Cynics might say Lavrov has ulterior motives in lending credence to these concerns, because Russia is an energy superpower, which might be partly true, but he also wants to foil his Western rivals’ plots.

Circling back to the first point of his interview about the need for developing countries to rebalance their economic relations with the West, his attack against the ‘green agenda’ advances that goal by getting such countries to think twice about blindly complying with their neo-colonizers’ demands and cajoling on this issue.

Those that prioritize green energy over traditional energy abandon more reliable energy sources, make themselves dependent on unreliable ones, and might thus be setting themselves up for disaster, as have the UK, Germany, etc.

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If unpredictable environmental changes cause problems with wind, solar, and hydroelectric power generation after developing countries become dependent on these sources, then the West can exploit the situation through emergency financial and other forms of relief with neo-colonial strings attached, as happened in Jamaica, where the Jamaican elites were paid off to agree to big wind and solar systems, financed by EU banks and pension funds. After a big hurricane, most of the wind and solar systems were ruined, but the debtors insisted on repayment of their loans. Jamaicans are more impoverished than before.

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That would bring those developing countries back to worse than square one by instantly reversing whatever prior progress they’d made on liberating themselves from the West.

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It is much better for those countries to gradually transition to green energy by relying more on natural gas in the interim, which Russia has in spades and which is “the cleanest of all hydrocarbons”, instead of radically shifting gears like the West is trying to maneuver those countries into.

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Moreover, it would also be wise to diversify their energy production through nuclear power generation, which Russia can also help them with as explained here.

This portfolio would most effectively hedge against strategic risks.

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Putting everything together, Russia’s approach to any global transition envisages developing countries collectively reforming existing financial institutions while avoiding the neo-colonial trap that the West is setting for them through its ‘green energy agenda’.

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This will deprive the West of the wealth that it extracts from their "customers", thus speeding up their long-overdue rebalancing, while the second will prevent any serious reversal on the progress that they make in this respect.

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Any reduction in the West’s overall influence and power brought about by the aforementioned rebalancing will work to Russia’s advantage by weakening its rivals.

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They’ll correspondingly find it more difficult to weaken/destabilize Russia, wage proxy wars against it, and obstruct its Afro-Eurasian grand strategy.

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What’s good for the Global South is good for Russia, thus making them equally important for one another.

As these countries become more aware of the pitfalls of the wind. solar, battery, hydro choices, they will want to increase their ties with BRICS.  

APPENDIX

Increasing CO2 by 100% Reduces Radiative Cooling to Space by an Imperceptible 1%

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/increasing-co2-by-100-...

By Drs. van Wijngaarden and Happer

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“An increase in low cloud cover of only about 1% could largely compensate for the doubling of CO2.” – van Wijngaarden & Happer, 2025

The physicists detail just how insignificant CO2 is as a factor in climate change, revealing that doubling the CO2 concentration from 400 ppm to 800 ppm – a 100% increase – hypothetically reduces radiative heat loss to space by just 1%.

It would take many decades to achieve such a ppm increase, plus there are not enough fossil fuels left over to make it happen.

Because CO2 has increased by only 50% since 1750 (280 ppm to 420 ppm), the CO2 total greenhouse effect regarding reducing upward IR radiation has thus far been in the range of tenths of a percentage point.

Such a small change in upward IR radiation, over hundreds of years, is not even detectable amid the noise of outgoing radiation measurement.

For example, the measured upward IR radiation has an error of about  33 W/m²

This negligible CO2 greenhouse effect is a calculated value for an atmosphere that is perpetually cloud-free.

As clouds are present 60-70% of the time, this clear-sky-only condition only occurs in an imaginary world – an atmosphere that doesn’t exist.

Compared to the CO2 role, the greenhouse effect of clouds is tens of times more influential.

As Drs. van Wijngaarden and Happer point out in their conclusion, all that is needed to offset the impact of doubling CO2 is a mere 1% change in cloud cover.

Because cloud cover changes of much more than 1% occur routinely, both from year-to-year and

decade-by-decade, the role of CO2 within the greenhouse effect is insignificant, if not irrelevant.

During cloudy skies, downward IR radiation from cloud bottoms is about 340 W/m^2,

During clear skies, downward IR radiation is about 260 W/m^2, about 30% less

Here are four articles attesting to the small global warming role of CO2 in the atmosphere

Eight Taiwanese Engineers Determine Climate Sensitivity to a 300 ppm CO2 Increase Is 'Negligibly Small'

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/eight-taiwanese-engine...

By Kenneth Richard

The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...

By Fred F. Mueller

Achieving 'Net Zero by 2050' Reduces Temps by 0.28 C Costing Tens of $TRILLIONS

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/achieving-net-zero-by-...

By Kenneth Richard

German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming ...Practically Insignificant

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/german-researcher-doub...

By P Gosselin on 19. November 2024