22h 43min, apr 15, 2003 y - October 2003 Putin: ""In Russia you can often hear -- either as a joke or seriously -- that for a northern country like Russia, it won't be that bad if it gets 2 or 3 degrees warmer. Maybe it would even be better -- we would spend less on fur coats and other warm things, and agriculture specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that. All that is true," Putin said. "But we must also think about something else. We much think about the consequences of global climate change."
