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Re:Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted ab... by greglindahl on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:01AM (#13204426)
My comment is only about one word ("recent") in the title of this "news" article on gizmodo.com, not about the title or content of the actual research. Sorry it wasn't clear.

The Nature commentary has the title: "Greenland once lost nearly all its ice — and could again"

http://www.nature.com/news/greenland-once-lost-nearly-all-it...

The actual paper title is: "Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene"

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v540/n7632/full/nature2...

I'd say the actual paper title wins by a mile.

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Re:Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted ab... by wallace_f on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:32AM (#13204505)
I agree the scholarly article's title is better.

Your comment did mention another point which appeared to discredit the article/research:

>probably failed A/B testing

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Re:Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted ab... by greglindahl on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:36AM (#13204520)
That is also a reference to the title of the "news" article on gizmodo.com. Sorry that this wasn't clear.

In particular, I was imagining that gizmodo A/B tested "Most of Greenland Melted about a Million Years Ago" vs "Most of Greenland Melted in the Recent Past".

The latter (to a non-geologist) is quite a bit more sensational.

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Re:Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted ab... by wallace_f on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:41AM (#13204661)
Oh I gotchya, sorry about that.
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Re:Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted ab... by zaroth on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:07AM (#13205339)
And this entire thread could be detached and marked OT.
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