Playing Fast and Loose with Numbers

"Journalists keep talking about a future without ice, about ice-free summers in the Arctic, and casually throwing in 'sea level rise if x were to melt completely' as if x was in any danger of melting away entirely over anything but geological time frames. This places the completely wrong ideas in their readers’ heads and gravely misinforms the public about the world. Doctors abide by the 'First, do no harm' promise. Maybe journalists should too." ~ Joakim Book