IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/climat/v171y2022i1d10.1007_s10584-022-03315-0.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Modelling the future: climate change research in Russia during the late Cold War and beyond, 1970s–2000

Author

Listed:
  • Katja Doose

    (Universite de Fribourg)

Abstract

Climate models are what governments, experts and societies base their decisions on future climate action on. To show how different models were used to explain climatic changes and to project future climates before the emergence of a global consensus on the validity of general circulation models, this article focuses on the attempt of Soviet climatologists and their government to push for their climate model to be acknowledged by the international climate science community. It argues that Soviet climate sciences as well as their interpretations of the climate of the twenty-first century were products of the Cold War, and that the systematic lack of access to high-speed computers forced Soviet climatologists to use simpler climate reconstructions as analogues, with far-reaching consequences for climate sciences in post-Soviet Russia. By juxtaposing the history of Soviet climate modelling with the early history of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, which rejected the Soviet model, the article sheds light on the relationship of science and politics. The findings are based on archival and print material as well as on interviews.

Suggested Citation

  • Katja Doose, 2022. "Modelling the future: climate change research in Russia during the late Cold War and beyond, 1970s–2000," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 171(1), pages 1-19, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:171:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s10584-022-03315-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-022-03315-0
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-022-03315-0
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10584-022-03315-0?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. John Marburger, 2011. "Science, technology and innovation in a 21st century context," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 44(3), pages 209-213, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Katja Doose & Marianna Poberezhskaya & Benjamin Beuerle, 2023. "Introduction from the editors," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(5), pages 1-6, May.
    2. Nadezhda Filimonova & Anastassia Obydenkova & Vinicius G. Rodrigues Vieira, 2023. "Geopolitical and economic interests in environmental governance: explaining observer state status in the Arctic Council," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(5), pages 1-25, May.
    3. Benjamin Beuerle, 2023. "From continuity to change: Soviet and Russian government attitudes on climate change (1989–2009)," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(4), pages 1-19, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Wen-Yu Tsao, 2019. "Understanding Push and Pull Powers on Intention to Accept for 3D printer," International Journal of Human Resource Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 9(2), pages 299-319, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:171:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s10584-022-03315-0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.