Dirty Big Secret: The Russkis are way into Global Cooling studies, and thus conveniently ignored by our Lefty-GW-Maniacs. IMHO, the Russkis were hoping for GW as a way to get their agricultural production back up to where it was under the Czar. Now they'll have to go get what they need elsewhere.
Last Updated: Thursday, 11 August 2005, Siberia's rapid thaw causes alarm
"The whole western Siberian sub-Arctic region has started to thaw The world's largest frozen peat bog is melting, which could speed the rate of global warming, New Scientist reports. The huge expanse of western Siberia is thawing for the first time since its formation, 11,000 years ago."