Global warming is coming right at us!

I read this article Greenland ice cap thickens slightly with it’s winning quote

However, they said that the thickening seemed consistent with theories of global warming, blamed by most experts on a build-up of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.

and laughed. So, global warming produces more ice?

Then I read this article in Wired Grim Outlook for Africa’s Future. The article is unremarkable with the following sentence standing out:

The potential consequences of global warming could be devastating for the world’s poorest continent, yet its nations are among the least equipped to cope.

Money buys things, primarily health and safety. If they weren’t the poorest continent,
then none of this would be devastating.