>Originally known as Hot Springs, Truth or Consequences underwent a rebrand in 1950 when the radio game show "Truth or Consequences" vowed to broadcast its 10th-anniversary episode in the first U.S. city to change its name to the moniker. Hot Springs won the national contest.

For those terribly curious about the name of this town! I know I was.

>I don’t think sea level rise will be the end of civilization, climate change however very possible.

On this point, we agree. Climate change (as a whole) could bring about dramatic changes to the human landscape. And we should be doing everything we can to convince people we need to change our fossil fuel focus.

And I feel calling this glacier "the Doomsday Glacier" is unnecessary hyperbole.

But how many live within 3m of sea-level? I live on the coast, the shipping ports are 300m from my home, but we are 30m above sea-level.

Fair enough.

Let's agree to push for less fossil fuel consumption, more solar power options, and other strategies for reducing the impacts of climate chang.

All those things you described are the effects of climate change in general, not this glacier. I agree that climate change will ultimately change our society, in many ways that are difficult to predict.

We need to people on board with correcting our course, and serving up hyperbole to shock people will work about as well as DARE did in the 80-90's.

Oh, there is plenty of coastline in wealthy countries. But as I said, the poor will unfortunately be the refugees. The wealthy countries will likely be able to absorb their refugees, while the poor countries suffer...

I will be very, very bad, indeed. Displaced and hungry poor people; refugees moving upland and seeking out wealthy countries. Millions of desperate people seeking refuge all around the world.

However, what would the source of this fighting be? Poor refugees dont have a lot of weapons, and we've seen many people in power willing to sacrifice the poor masses...

Climate change is very, very bad for the poor nations of the world, but the wealthy perpetrators of climate change will use their power and wealth to insulate themselves from the effects they created...

>They are going to claim scientists are "overreacting" no matter what the scientists say.

Yeah. Likely true. But I figure don't give them something easy like this to point at.

Yeah, I live that bit from Carlin. Thankfully human life will be nothing more than a blip on the history of earth.

I am curious what you disagree with. Do you believe the melting of this glacier will in fact be the end of civilization?

Disastrous? Absolutely!! People all across the globe will be displaced and losing fertile farmland. And worst of all, the poorest will be the most affected.

The end of civilization? "Doomsday"??? Far from it.

Perhaps. But "Doomsday Glacier" is extreme hyperbole, and too easy to shoot holes in, for my taste.

Calling it the "Doomsday Glacier" is ridiculous and easy fuel for deniers to point at as say, "those scientists are overreacting".

Call it the "Coastal Flooding Glacier" or "Florida's Nightmare Glacier".

I mean, there are numerous people I would consider to be a piece of shit, but I wouldn't celebrate their death. Being happy someone dies is kind of shitty to be honest.

Wait, why are you pleased Kennith Starr is dead? I know it's pretty gross how much detail of Bill Clinton's sex life he included in his investigation (no one needs their sex life that heavily scrutinized unless you've done something illegal), but why celebrate his death? Did I miss something?

The only way the day-frozen vs week-frozen would thaw faster is if the day-frozen wasn't actually frozen all the way through yet (very likely). If two identical chunks of meat were frozen all the way through, they would thaw at the same speed.

If meat has been frozen for a looooong time (and freezer burned), it would actually thaw faster, because is has less frozen moisture in it after the freezer burn has dehydrated it.