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Samara Region on the Volga and certain other areas. The mite habitat is rapidly expanding, too. Pests migrate north far quicker than the border between, for example, the taiga and the forest tundra shifts. Once they find themselves in a foreign ecosystem, pests become gangster species, crowding out the native biota with dynamic multiplication. Climate change thus brings epidemics in its wake. Subtropical malarial mosquitoes now feel at home in the area around Moscow.Scientists who welcome warming as a boon for Russian agriculture are entirely wrong. True, the vegetation period is becoming longer-but this benefit is outweighed by the hazard of spring frosts destroying young crops.
Another argument in favor of warming is the energy that would be saved by a reduced need for heating. But then, the United States uses more energy for air conditioning than Russia does for heating even now.
How can humankind fight climate change? It's no use opposing Nature-but
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