Abstract
Somatic and genetic effects of the increase of greenhouse gases are investigated. The exhalation rates of radon and thoron are affected by the climate change through the temperature rise itself, melting of snow and ice and the change of soil moisture, and the lung cancer rate is affected by these changes. On the other hand the greenhouse warming of the troposphere leads to cooling of the stratosphere, which protects the O 3 layer and reduces skin cancer. In the genetic side the temperature rise is harmful for sperm. The Rn increase leads to an increase of chromosome aberrations. Crude estimates of these effects show that the soil moisture effect is probably the largest, but the O 3 protection effect may also be significant.
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