Science Just Gets in the Way of Things Being How We Want Them 2

Here's an example of my conundrum. Early this year, Trump refuted the idea of climate change: “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records, so okay, they're at a record level.” But a researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said that polar ice was at “a record low in the Arctic (around the North Pole) right now and near record low in the Antarctic (around the South Pole).” The Trump claim and the response were both published by the Pulitzer Prize–winning organization PolitiFact. But I don't know anyone there.