Putin Scepticism casts doubt on COP21.

Reuters Report quotes Russian President Putin  (LINK)

"...there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia..."  

President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Paris. 

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".

Andrey Illarionov, Putin's senior economic adviser at the time and now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington said:

Putin's scepticism dates from the early 2000s, when his staff "did very, very extensive work trying to understand all sides of the climate debate.  

We found that, while climate change does exist, it is cyclical, and the anthropogenic role is very limited. It became clear that the climate is a complicated system and that, so far, the evidence presented for the need to 'fight' global warming was rather unfounded.

FRAUD

The Daily Caller's report goes a little further: (link)

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes global warming is a “fraud” — a plot to keep Russia from using its vast oil and natural gas reserves.

US Solar Plant a carbon dioxide emitter

Previously this blog has noted that the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System was 

disrupting the thriving habitat for tortoises, coyotes, kit foxes and bobcats and was vaporising birds. (Back-up link) 

Now we find that the plant has been a net emitter of carbon dioxide, falsely described as a carbon polluter by Fox News.

Taxpayer-backed solar plant actually a carbon polluter

Even as the Obama administration announces another $120 million in grants to boost solar energy, new reports indicate a centerpiece of the administration's green-energy effort is actually a carbon polluter.  

Located in Southern California's Mojave Desert, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System benefited from a $1.6 billion Energy Department loan guarantee, and a $539 million Treasury Department stimulus grant to help pay off the loan. 

Yet it is producing carbon emissions at nearly twice the amount that compels power plants and companies to participate in the state's cap-and-trade program.  

That's because the plant relies on natural gas as a supplementary fuel. 

The Press Enterprise also reported it (and also falsely used the Pollution word:

Desert plant has pollution problem

The Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert uses natural gas as a supplementary fuel. Data from the California Energy Commission show that the plant burned enough natural gas in 2014 – its first year of operation – to emit more than 46,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. 

That’s nearly twice the pollution threshold for power plants or factories in California to be required to participate in the state’s cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions.

Why does a solar plant need to burn Natural Gas?

Natural gas is used to preheat water that goes into boilers mounted on top of three 459-foot-tall towers at Ivanpah. This allows heat from the sun – captured by 352,000 mirrors – to make steam more quickly. The steam turns the turbines that produce electricity. 

The Ivanpah plant off Interstate 15 near the Nevada border also has auxiliary gas boilers that kick in whenever cloud cover blocks the sun.

WHY vaporise birds, threaten tortoises, coyotes, kit foxes and bobcats for a plant that produces no-so-green energy?