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That's not really true.

Parts of the arctics are definitely deserts, but that is not true for all of the arctic regions.

Looking at the relevant parts of wikipedia [0] and [1], "annual precipitation averaged over the whole planet is about 1000 mm" while "parts of southeast Greenland [recieve] over 1200 mm". Antarctica has a lot less precipitation in general, but there are still large parts of it that are not classified as desert.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Arctic#Precipit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica#Precipit...



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