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|Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts.
|Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts.
|However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa.
|However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa.
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|Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to [[sea level increase|raise sea levels]] by 20 feet.
|But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain. In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.
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|Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming.
|Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming.