Global warming is a fact, and it is going on, and glaciers are melting rapidly. There is far too much bona fide scientific research available to doubt it, and not enough room in this paper to document it; and additionally, the shame of it is that the conservative movement in America has taken a science issue, and boldly made it into a partisan political issue. The "dominant opposing view of Global Warming" is that is a liberal strategy to try to slow down the American economy.
             Meanwhile an article by Jeffrey Kluger in Time magazine (April 3, 2006), called "The Tipping Point," puts a number of recent studies together in an article. Kluger states that Planet Earth is an "organism," and right now, the planet is "...fighting a fever." The global warming "crisis is upon us," Kluger reports, and "human activity has been causing it." The cover of that Time edition sounds the alarm: "Be Worried. Be Very Worried."
             "Things are happening a lot faster than anyone predicted," Kluger quotes a scientist for "Environmental Defense" as saying. "The last 12 months have been alarming," says Ruth Curry of "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute" in Massachusetts. Recently scientists verified that "of the twenty hottest years on record, 19 occurred in the 1980s or later," Curry stated in the Time article. Glaciers and ice caps are melting; in Greenland, recent satellite photography shows that 53 cubic miles of the Greenland ice cap melted into the sea in 2005 alone. When compared with the 22 cubic miles that melted into the sea in 1996, it's clear that the atmosphere has warmed in these few years.
             One of the problems with the ice cap melting is that when icebergs melt, they don't raise sea levels; "they're floating...[and] have displaced all the water they're ever going to" displace, Kluger explains. But land ...