MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...
grow by 2012 against 1990 by 18 ppm, i.e., greenhouse gas particles per million air particles. The figure will be 16 ppm if the Protocol is implemented.Even this small reduction is economically lucrative as the matter concerns degrees, and even parts of degrees. It will be a triumph if global warming is reduced by 2 degrees a century - just think of the difference between 37 and 39 degrees in the temperature of the human body. When it comes to the biota, every tiny change will be notable. Progress with the Kyoto Protocol will save many living things on Earth.
Viktor Danilov-Danilyan (Ph.D.) is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the Moscow-based Institute of Water Problems.
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