ИСТИНА

Global environmental change shapes places and people through ongoing transformation of ecological, socioeconomic, political, and cultural phenomena. A selected topic reveals the features of Kamchatka as a region construed as highly vulnerable to global environmental change, particularly anthropogenic climate change. Issue of this work is justified by the skeptical attitude of Kamchatka local residents and the lack of a suitable reference place for assessing the natural variability of global changes in the region. The proposed solution is to use a comparative characteristic of an open area and not contaminated with anthropogenic sources of the lake for eradicating negative narratives in the minds of the inhabitants of the region