Networks seized on an hysterical story in The Guardian. Anthony Watts explains why this is hype:
FR comments and link to the story:
Guardians Suzanne Goldenberg jumps the shark again gets called out by NYT (Antarctic "collapse")
I doubt any of them bother to mention that the melting has no connection to what is referred to as the global warming phenomenon, caused by human activity. They either lie outright, and associate the melting with global warming; or they have a global warming story in close proximity and let the viewer draw his own false connection between the two stories.
But the researchers said that even though such a rise could not be stopped, it is still several centuries off, and potentially up to 1,000 years away.
A thousand years... OMG it's like tomorrow... /s