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

Putin believes “there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia,”
Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and Putin critic, told The New York Times.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/29/russias-putin-says-global-warming-is-a-fraud/