Stephan:   As anyone who reads SR knows the Arctic is melting  faster than the rest of the world. Melting is not a constant across the globe but the Arctic melt is warming at approximately two to three times faster than elsewhere. I say this first because I want you to keep in mind as you read this report. The official United States position under the Trump Administration, and a Republican Congress is actively seeking to subvert the wellbeing of humanity, and the biosphere in which we live. I believe history will see this as a tactic, part of a crime against humanity, an act of genocide.  We are actively and aggressively,  as a matter of foreign policy, engaging in a kind of war. One which will produce millions of deaths, and destroy for human habitation vast areas of the globe. In essence an outcome even worse than explosive warfare.  Here is why I say this, on the basis of outcome data, not political polemic.