Where to look for real non-politicized traces of the anthropogenic climatic factor?
The climate does not allow you to relax. In any case, in the Moscow region, templates are torn by one or two. Perhaps, for all the years of the 21st century, there is not a single similar season: anomalies, temperature records, a sharp change in weather have become common phenomena, to which it is even impossible to get used to, because the habit arises in stability, but not in a ragged and unpredictable regime.
At the same time, no one can really explain anything. The fashionable theory of anthropogenic influence on climate change contains only part of the truth, and the most insignificant one. If anything, this is about well-known hydrocarbons, openly charged with the business interests of both individual corporations and entire states.
There are also extensive hints of the warm Gulf Stream, which made the climate of Europe mild, and therefore its changes supposedly lead to climatic consequences, but this question does not contain anything specific at all, except for idle pseudo-scientific gossip.
The precession of the poles is a more interesting phenomenon, however, due to its beloved and temporal extent, it still remains an armchair genre, so let's leave it alone until better times. In general, so far everything that is emphasized is more like myths than reality, including conspiracy theories about "climate weapons" in the hands of villains.
As a result, in the dry residue on the surface, the harmful combustion of hydrocarbons and nothing else, as well as the economy revolving around this and its continuation in the form of politics (or vice versa), implying the next sawing and redistribution of eternally meager budgets, as well as attempts to hinder the development of profitable industries in countries not included in the "golden billion".
At the same time, attempts to justify climate change with CO2 emissions have long been exposed due to the insignificance of their share and do not stand up to criticism, why, in fact, they need a tough politicized cushion: the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, etc., lobbied mainly by those who are gas, oil and they buy coal, trying to jump out of the energy trap and frantically grabbing at the so-called renewable energy sources.
It is not possible to jump out and cannot succeed in principle, because all these sources are the same trap, only in profile: there is no significant effect on the growth of hydrocarbon fuel consumption and is not expected. And if the consumption of hydrocarbons suddenly falls at the moment, then look for the reason in speculative games.
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A similar, already relatively stable trend is evidence of either the crisis and the shutdown of factories and plants due to the overproduction of their products, or politics again intervened. So, climatologists can sleep well: the danger to the climate from hydrocarbons is minimal, and CO2 emissions simply will not have time to grow to critical values, because by that time wells, quarries and other strata will dry out and empty.
By the way, about the quarries, which, in my opinion, being also a man-made product, change the climate much more efficiently than the notorious CO2. However, which is characteristic, no one pays attention to this factor (in any case, I do not know anything about it). Here is just one example, relatively close to us, of which, by the way, a wagon and a large cart are scattered around the world. I will lead you to him from afar.
Having never been close to climatology, I know from school that the Ural Range does not so much geographically divide Europe and Asia as it is a natural climatic boundary that arose in time immemorial, when words such as “Europe” and “Asia” did not have. However, in those days, in general, perhaps there were no words at all, as well as two-legged word producers. During the period since "time immemorial" the climate in Eurasia has stabilized, which even we found in the second half of the 20th century and managed to get used to it.
All our climatic habits, as it was said at the very beginning, flew in the current 21st century and have a confident tendency to deprive a certain number of future generations by their presence. However, let us return to the Ural ridge, which we will discuss without pretensions to be scientific.
So, also well-known cyclones (huge vortices with low pressure, rotating counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) over the European part of Russia move mainly in the southeast direction, carrying "masses of bad weather" towards the Middle and Southern Urals, where they slow down and crumble, giving way to anticyclones (with high pressure). And so it was from year to year, with small deviations and fluctuations, which created the usual climate. Including behind the ridge, behind which there has always been its own climatic zone.
At the same time, the Ural Mountains, as everyone also knows, is a treasure trove of minerals, from iron ore to the most valuable rare earth metals, not to mention other platitudes, such as valuable rocks. Industrial production of this entire economy began a little over 100 years ago, and at first gradually, and then more and more intensively.
Mining and processing plants (GOKi) are engaged in mining, and the place of extraction itself is the very quarry where the rock is usually exploded and then removed. At the same time, what was “yesterday” was a large mountain, today it is usually a large pit. It all depends on the percentage of minerals in the rock, which is produced until either the required element dries up, or the extraction itself becomes too laborious.
And there are tens, if not hundreds, of such examples in the Urals (Southern and Middle Urals, just where cyclones should abut) (few people know the exact number), and therefore I come to an unambiguous conclusion: this anthropogenic action could not but have a very significant impact on the movement of air masses and, as a consequence, on climate change both in the European part of Russia and beyond the Urals.
And now let's multiply the number of mountains turned into pits in the Urals, for example, by the conditional 100 countries, where rock is also being worked out and the mountains are being turned into pits. And this, without exaggeration, is hundreds of billions of tons of processed rock, moved from one place to another, where, after enrichment, new giant cones (waste heaps) grow, but in a different place.
Further, these cones are either densely overgrown and remain "forever", or the empty accompanying rock is crushed to the required fractions and goes to the production of concrete and asphalt as crushed stone, as well as to the preparatory dumping of thousands of kilometers of railways, roads, airfields and so on.
By the way, there are regions where there is a slightly different process that is not associated with the "liquidation" of mountains: the rock is mined from layers lying under the horizon, when the same pits are formed at the quarries, which nature did not foresee there, which also inevitably affects the movement of air masses. In particular, such is the "Kursk Magnetic Anomaly" located on a giant plateau - the world's largest iron-ore basin with an area of about 160 thousand km2, from where the rock is transported to the enrichment sites where, as a result, giant waste heaps appear. There is a law on reclamation, but no law is able to return the relief to its original state.
Thus, in my opinion, there is an unconditional anthropogenic factor in the current climate change on Earth, only it should be sought not only and not so much where we are loudly pushed from the high politicized stands, but also where the dog rummaged in the literal sense, leaving behind on Earth never-healing wounds in the form of many kilometers of gaps.
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In fact, as evidenced by the monuments of ancient builders that have come down to us, for example, as it is magnificently shown here - “The earth is a giant quarry. Who is gutting our bowels?”, Mankind has been sawing and crushing stone, which has long been the main building material, for almost its entire history.
Alexander Dubrovsky
