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Scientists Search For Clues to Antarctic Climate

Posted by michael on from the cold-hard-science dept.

Andrevan writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that a group of US scientists has finished a journey to the southernmost point of Antarctica. The team traversed 775 miles. They hope to reveal information on global warming and precipitation trends that began at the end of the Ice Age. According to Dr. Paul Mayewski, the expedition's leader, analysis should be finished in the next year or two."

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  1. Terminology by Jon+Peterson · · Score: 4, Funny

    "southernmost point of Antarctica"

    Gee, I wonder why we don't have a special name for that point. Maybe, I dunno, South Spot? Southern Point? Bit at the Bottom? Nah, it's never catch on...

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    1. Re:Terminology by hplasm · · Score: 2, Funny
      "southernmost point of Antarctica"

      Is this not called the South Pole??

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  2. Re:Doh ! by JanneM · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the other hand, they didn't find frozen Old Ones at the foot of a forbidding mountain range either, which we presumably can be grateful for.

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  3. Christian Science? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Christian Science" - Isn't that a bit like "military intelligence" and "McDonald's Restaurant"?