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Antarctica appears to have broken a heat record

Phys.org. by Christina Larson: .

2/8/2020 Some folks have not yet internalized how serious the warming of the globe is. The warming affects the glaciers that supply the great rivers of the world that supply water for agriculture around the world. Americans can miss the importance of surface water flows because the country mostly depends on rainwater for food production. Most of the world however lives on irrigation agriculture. The great rivers of the world nourish most people around the world. As glaciers of the world diminish the great rivers of the world will become a trickle. This will happen in Europe as the glaciers of the Alps die. Ditto for the great rivers of Asia as the glaciers of the Himalayas die. The warming of Antartica is yet one more portent of things to come.

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