The attempt to weaken the Siberian High was revealed in the United States via a March
3,1958 article by William J. Perkins entitled “Soviets Plan Reversing Rivers, Melting Arctic to
Warm Siberia” which appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“The vast arid, cold steppes of eastern Siberia are the home of a vast high
pressure system of intense cold air, called the Siberian High. Western scientists
believe that if Russia is able to alter the character of the ground over which
this high pressure system is located, the character of the air mass itself will
change.
Russia officially appears to share this view. In outlining, last August, a
project now believed to be underway to divert the flow of two great
Siberian rivers from the Arctic Ocean to form a vast inland sea among the
arid steppes of central Asia, Moscow radio boasted: “Astonishing
climatic changes would occur. . . evaporation (from the inland sea)
would increase and with it the humidity of the air. The extremes of
yearly and daily temperature characteristics of these would be greatly
modified. The rivers that would be diverted under the Russian plan
announced that August were the Ob and Yenisei.” (emphasis by S. Kasprzak)
The Siberian High is associated with extreme low humidity and little snow from
September until April. Right where this key weather system forms, Russia built a
series of “vast inland seas” between 1950 and 1980, five were on the Angara River and
Yenisei in total; one on the Ob and another on the Irtysh, a tributary of the Ob.
According to NASA, “Increasing water vapor leads to warmer temperature,
which causes more water vapor to be absorbed into the air. Warming and water
absorption increase in a spiraling cycle.”
These seven reservoirs, the Irkutsh, Bratsk, Ust-Ilmsky, Krasnoyarsk, Sayano
Shushenskaya, Novosibirsk and Bukhtarma hydroelectric reservoirs are also mega
human-made water vaporizers, which did not go unnoticed by the Siberians. The rapid
increase in humidity levels and air temperatures were noted in a September 14, 1975
Miami Herald article by John Dornberg entitled, Huge man-made lakes warming up
Siberia:…“Ten years after its completion… the Bratsk dam and others like it along the
Angara have warmed up central Siberia by at least 10 degrees” and “In effect, what
the Russians have done in their drive to industrialize Siberia and exploit its
enormous wealth of raw materials is to create inland oceans which account for
more rain, more humidity, less seasonal fluctuation in temperature and more
frequent change in the weather.” Emphasis by S. Kasprzak)
It took less than 20 years for the Soviets to successfully test their hypothesis on how to
force the warming of Siberia with colossal surface water storage and water vapor
emissions. It is my hypothesis that even a reduction of global carbon emissions to net
zero will have minimal impact, if any, on strengthening the Siberian High and reducing
Arctic humidity and temperatures fueled by these “vast inland seas”.
SMK/rdw arcticbluedeserts.com Essay 3-2023 by Stephan Kasprzak April 7, 2023