In January 2020, State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev said that one of the reasons for the weather anomaly in Russia could be Washington of climatic weapons. We tried to understand how real it is.

Zhuravlev’s statement concerned the unusually warm winter of 2019–2020. It sounded on the air of the Radio Says Moscow. That's what, in particular, said Folk chosen one:

“Today, America, which in advanced technologies uses everything that is possible, can be like that. <...> I am sure that these are non -accidental changes. The first, we know that they were in Vietnam in Vietnam. Therefore, of course, these developments go, although they are prohibited, but they are unambiguously developed. Moreover, they do this "type we conduct research", that is, not as a weapon, but as a study. Research - it is possible, but weapons are impossible. They specially do these studies, but use as a weapon. ”

It should be noted that this was not the first revelation of Zhuravlev on this subject - back in August 2019, he shared a similar opinion on the air of the 60 minutes program on the Russia TV channel. Then it was about summer weather surprises:

“I think they experience climatic weapons. There can be no such summer, we all understand that it cannot be. This means that: fires are coming, showers in Moscow. Well, the regional committee Washington works. I believe that this is serious and we must relate to this correctly. ”

Firstly, was the winter of 2019–2020 were an abnormally warm? According to experts, this is true - as in relation to individual Moscow or St. Petersburg, and all Russiawhere the temperature exceeded the average by 6–8 ° C. However, it is impossible to talk about the country's special path in this context - after all, the winter of 2019–2020 was also broken by the European record, and in the USA and China it entered the three and four of the warmest winter, respectively. The truth is that the summer of 2019 established the opposite record - For example, in Moscow, the temperature was lower than the norm by 7-8 ° C.

However, specialists have a rational explanation for all this. They They thinkWhich, firstly, the cause of an abnormally warm winter is the passage of all cyclones along the northern trajectories, as a result of which the territory of Russia is constantly in their warm sector. In addition, Atlantic heat enters the country. Secondly, the temperature on the planet is growing due to the increase in the greenhouse effect associated with the growth of the concentration of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. “What is happening for ten years is not a climate yet,” - speaks Chief Specialist of the Department of Earth Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nina Zaitseva.

As for climatic weapons, this concept remains hypothetical today. The only fixed episode, when the change in weather conditions was carried out with hostile goals, is considered an American attack on the “Ho Shi Mina path” during the war in Vietnam. Then the US military, using various chemicals, caused pouring rains over this object. Similar actions were banned in 1977 by a special Convention. Nevertheless, the theme of climatic weapons periodically pops up within the framework of various conspiracy theories, and very often this happens in Russia. In particular, another large surge in the camp of conspiracy the Fires of 2010.

Leading Russian experts also shared their opinions about the probability of using the Americans of climatic weapons. “Generally speaking, this is no longer funny, sometimes I want to cry from comments from officials,” said Dmitry Stefanovich, a co -founder of the Watfor project, in an interview with RBC. Scientific adviser to the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Wilfand, in turn, saidthat such statements should be perceived with irony. And the leading specialist of the Fobos Weather Center Evgeny Tishkovets recalled that in 2019, it was the United States that suffered the largest losses from weather cataclysms. “They had forest fires in California, in the Middle West of the United States, an unprecedented flood of $ 12.5 billion in its scale happened - did the Pentagon also applied himself against himself? Of course not. This is all nonsense, ”the expert said.

Thus, the assertion of Alexei Zhuravlev about the use of climatic weapons against Russia is not strictly formally refuted (it is almost impossible to prove the absence of something), with a very high probability is false.