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Article: Sounding the retreat.(Geographical dossier: SPECIAL REPORT)(glaciers and global warming)
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- December 1, 2007
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While climatologists argue over exactly what effect rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are going to have on global climate; while governments argue over the most appropriate response to the impending disaster; and while sceptics argue about the nature and causes of global warming, there is one thing we can't ignore. The world's glaciers are melting. Rapidly. Before-and-after images of melting glaciers have provided many people with the 'smoking gun' they needed to finally convince them of the reality of global warming. But just what are the consequences of glacial retreat? And what about the glaciers that are bucking the trend and ...
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Article: Global Warming, Melting Glaciers
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November 26, 1998 ;
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... ... planet were warming, glaciers would be melting ... data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich. "Clearly, glaciers show no evidence of global warming," he concludes ... directly contradicts the Glacier Service's own conclusion ...
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