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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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