Global warming - a "gift" "Perhaps climate warming and exacerbate the situation in the Middle East, but in Russia it will affect positively. So let's build factories and burning wood!", Calls for 45-year-old Muscovite Alexander Nikonov. Do not think it is not one of those skeptics who do not believe in global warming.

On the contrary, Alexander - one of his most active supporters. Pleased with himself and the world around him, he travels the streets of Moscow on his SUV. Two years ago, this enthusiastic science writer and journalist published a "History of the frost-bitten in the context of global warming," in which he explains to the concept of clear language of Russia climatologist Vladimir Klimenko, and tells the history of civilizations that have collapsed due to climatic vagaries of the Earth. According to Klimenko, CO2 emissions have allowed humanity to avoid a new ice age. Nikonov himself - an active critic of political correctness - said that melting ice will bring Russia a lot of money: it would pave the Northern Sea Route will provide an opportunity to save on heating costs ( "Instead of spending billions on winter heating homes, it will be possible to sell more oil) and melt the permafrost, releasing an enormous amount of arable land. He sees in the warming and the benefit of all the earth: more land, more than unsalted water, more crops. "Climatic warming - a gift which the Western left-liberal bourgeoisie does not want to take us to unknown reasons. Europe wants to improve life on the planet, but our worse!" The main target of criticism Nikonov is exactly Old World, because in the U.S. is still enough Republicans to oppose the Kyoto Protocol and other conferences on climate. "Europe is simply sick thirst to save the whales, blacks in Africa or the islands, which would flood from melting ice. When people live in comfortable conditions, they begin to poke their noses into other people's problems." Growing up in the USSR Nikonov with a similar problem does not occur. Throughout his life he lived in an industrial area in the east of the capital and, if not for restructuring, and remained a metallurgical engineer. Like many of his countrymen, he believes that Europeans are simply "crazy about ecology", moreover, that the environmental situation they are much better. He admits, however, that he would in the future to buy a house in the "clean" quarter with clean air, for which is now being actively fought the Muscovites. But there is no contradiction here, he does not find: in the end, thanks to warming in Russia will soon be enough room for all.