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Comment by jonahrd | Hacker News Reader

Please change the title back to the original: "The Voyage to the End of Ice"

The article is clear in stating that prediction is difficult and ranges from 10 years to 200. Putting the lower end of that claim in the title is clickbait-y

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An artistic title can work in media rich publication, but in an aggregator like HN you need something descriptive of what the article actually is (although I tend to just keep the original title if it fits in the length limits)

Maybe something like "How soon can we expect Summer Sea Ice to end?"

Clickbait means misleading and sensationalized. That title seems like an apt description and not clickbait.

I personally wouldn't say it is clickbait but it does appear to fall foul of other parts of the relevant HN guidelines:

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Are there betting markets for this sort of stuff? Because I'd like to bet that in ten years there will be summer sea ice.

Alright, I take my comment back. I checked in National Geographic. If we don’t make drastic changes, summer sea ice is projected to end after 2060 [1], although it is always possible that things spiral out of control in unexpected ways.

[1]: https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/959464878410010625

You could invest into transportation firms along traditional land/sea shipping routes, assuming the market has priced an expectation of the Northwest Passage opening up and ruining business into those firms' valuations.

Funny because to me it looks like deceitful manipulation to get people to click.

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