These people think you're stupid: A bit of potential future warming pitched as catastrophe for people suffering in cold places

Russian heat wave dents hopes of climate winners | Reuters [climate propaganda]

OSLO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Russia's summer heat wave has dimmed prospects that northern countries will "win" from climate change thanks to factors such as longer crop-growing seasons or fewer deaths from winter cold, experts say.
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"There ought to be, coming out of this, a greater awareness that many hazards come with climate change," said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
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"By and large, Canadians understand that there may be benefits but climate change is going to be bad," said Steven Guilbeault, of Canadian environmental group Equiterre. Extreme weather in 2010 "is going to help people understand the risks."
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Jay Gulledge, senior scientist at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said predictions of climate "winners" and "losers" inevitably ignored many risks, for instance on Russia from Pakistan's floods.

"Does Russia 'win' if the Taliban and other hardline extremists step in to fill the void left by an ineffectual government and international aid response to the floods in Pakistan?" he asked in a blog.   [Get that?  Through a tortured chain of "logic", 7-Up bubbles get blamed for the potential rise of the Taliban.]

Reuters flashback - Mongolia winter kills herds, devastating the poorest

BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - A severe winter has left 4.5 million dead animals in stockyards across the Mongolian steppes, and many poor herders face the loss of all their property just before the important breeding season.

About a tenth of Mongolia's livestock may have perished, as deep snows cut off access to grazing and fodder.