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No, Carter had a point. Antarctica is a terrible place to put a Stargate. The Ancients usually put them in places where people can live. She didn't know they put Atlantis in Antarctica.
Assuming that people lived near this Stargate thousands of years ago, and it's now in an arctic climate, an ice age is the logical conclusion.
Don't quote me on this, because I can't remember the specific episode, comic, or book, but I vaguely remember the ancients settled places thy were most like their original homeworld of Alterra, and gave them the best comfort overall. That just happened to be what the Pacific Northwest region of North America looks like, so most of the planets are still pretty close to that. Some obviously have continued morphing over the millennia, but it makes a nice explanation for why everywhere looks like the same 30 mile area around their BC studio lol.
At the time they didn't really know much about the ancients, definitely didn't know that Atlantis took off from Antarctica 5 million years ago...
That's fair, however it always felt a little weird for the scientist of all people to make such a broad generalization.