The head of a Russian energy strategy institute...
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will enter its final day on Friday, with world leaders trying to agree on global measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2012. Scientists have warned that the emissions cuts so far offered at the summit would fail to prevent a catastrophic rise in temperatures.
However, Vitaly Bushuyev, general director of the Energy Strategy Institute set up by Russia"s Fuel and Energy Ministry, insists that the main reasons for climate change are being ignored.
"Cyclical changes, including climate change, have always existed and will continue to exist," Bushuyev told RIA Novosti.
"Climatologists tend to limit their research to the planet"s thermal balance. In effect, they merely study the influence of solar radiation or its lack as caused by the greenhouse effect. In reality, a powerful energy force is linked with changes in the Earth"s rotation speed, which is now slowing down.