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The question is not who is at fault, but what is happening and what can be done about it.

"Global Warming" is a tragic choice of descriptions for what should better be termed "Global Melt-down".  "Warming" sounds like a good thing -- "Meltdown" suggests the calamity in store.  Scientists argue about subtle temperature shifts that are masked by natural climate cycles, while evidence of glacial loss is most alarming.  Ice shelves the size of states collapse into the ocean regularly and in 2007 for the first time in history, it was possible to sail a ship through open water in a circle around the north pole.

We are like ants sitting on an ice cube in a water glass in a microwave oven.  As the ice shrinks, the water temperature does not rise much at all, until the last of the ice is gone.