1) Al Gore is intrigued and surprised, because of the number of issues affecting the environment. It deeply affects him.
2) Al Gore is an American politician and a businessman. He is interested about how the environnement's problems affect the Earth.
3) The author of the quote is Mark Twain.
4) The vast majority of the land mass and vegetation on Earth is in China and Australia.
5) Glaciers are losing ice at an extensive rate. Glacier's changes are only dictated by air temperature but also by precipitation. Therefore, there are scenarios in which warming can lead to increases in precipitation ( and glacier ice accumulation ) such as displayed in part of southwestern Norway during the 1990s.
6) They get their drinking water on groundwater.
-> J'entame la deuxième partie.
