Arctic Ice Melting at Record Rate: “More ice melted from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet this year than ever before recorded, report scientists from the University of Colorado. The same team found that the extent of Arctic sea ice reached the lowest level in the satellite record in 2002, offering further evidence that climate change is already altering the Arctic.” Environmental News Service Along with the erosion of domestic civil liberties, the impending devastation of Iraq, and the gutting of the arms control infrastructure, surely one of the most execrable legacies the Bush dysadministration will leave the generation to come will be having failed to address global warming or, indeed, acknowledge that it is even a real phenomenon, while we still could.