Mainstream reporting on climate has turned urgent doubt into certainty. Too often, we are fed neat narratives instead of messy facts. Extremes are amplified. Numbers are polished. The public feels fear. We should demand better.
The planet is complex. One global average temperature cannot capture storms over a city or the cold that freezes crops. Averaging Greenland and Laguna Beach into a single headline number gives a false sense of comfort that science speaks with a single voice. Sea surface temperatures were measured with buckets and ship thermometers for decades. Those old readings were cool as the water was hauled up. Argo floats only arrived in the 2000s. That matters if you want to say the oceans warmed.
