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You've got it, there's even a paper on this regarding glaciology see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030913251562336...

I (unfortunately) cannot access this paper because it is behind a paywall, but surely it must be satire?

Many people were confused as to this being satire or not but one of the authors did a Q&A to help clear things up