“Yet, as big as the almost certainly irreversible retreat of the sea ice will figure in the future of the planet, it has attracted relatively little attention in the here and now. A study released on Thursday by Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, found that over the last few months, Representative Paul Ryan\u2019s fitness routine\u2014he\u2019s a big fan of what\u2019s known as the P90X workout plan\u2014has received three times as much television coverage as the ice loss.”<\/p>\n