This is a picture of me during my visit to Mendenhall Glacier, a glacier currently 12 to 13 miles outside of Juneau, Alaska. This picture was taken in mid-summer 2001. It was my second visit. The one before that was in the mid-nineties in the middle of May. I hadn't noticed any major glacier shrinkage from one visit to the other.
I was interested because on my first visit I was told the glacier visitor center was right on top of the glacier when it was first built in 1962 but the glacier had shrunk so much that now it wasn't. The tour guide also said that the glacier was once a couple of miles closer to town when he was a child. Was this really factual information being given? It's why I've been interested in glacier melting ever since and why I couldn't understand the controversy over global warming. Is it or isn't it? So many opinions via our science world.
Lately, with the recent media coverage about it, due to the UN Climate Summit, I started "hearing" the words "Mendenhall Glacier" with this feeling about shrinkage but at the same time I was given feelings as if it's being overstated. Hmmmm. Was guidance trying to make a point about something? I also kept hearing "ice age," with regards to the amount of shrinkage that we have had in our glaciers over the last ten thousand plus years. That without this ice shrinkage we wouldn't be living where we are today. Very true. As they say, good and bad in everything.
Anyway, I kept feeling that something was going on. That we tend to promote something without realizing things that can go on behind close doors. For example, when we had a sugar shortage many, many years ago, supposedly, and then suddenly we had a sugar substitute to help us. Wasn't that convenient? Is there something being promoted behind closed doors for global warming advocacy?
Furthermore, over the years of reading about this subject, I kept feeling that some of the pictures, which were presented for proof, for making a point, could be deceptive, especially if taken out of context of seasons involved or altered. Is it necessary to alter anything to make a point or promote one's agenda? All I can say is: yes, it can happened. I've seen and heard a lot of what we can buy into, due to another's propaganda, over most of my adult life. Things we believe today can and will change tomorrow, especially when we know more or know better.
So, what was guidance telling me ... without telling me?
Then my training hit me. Could we be promoting much of it by our thoughts? Our thoughts can be and have been powerful forces. Collectively, we can do much for good or bad. Could we, in our "the sky is falling" mentality, seek to be right even if wrong? We want to be right so we can say: see, I told you so! No matter how destructive our thoughts are. No matter what is produced to cool things down. We just want to be right.
Or, are we on an earth cycle that's been going on for thousands of years? Can we change it? Are we being duped into believing we have control over something to promote another's agenda? Even if we buy into it, will earth obey us? Thousands of years of glacier melting have some say we may be heading into another ice age. Could it be a natural cycle of our planet and we, as mankind, may not be able to do anything?
Yet, if we want to see how fast a cool down can occur ... due to nature ... check out the "little ice age," which was proportedly created by volcanic eruption (among other speculative causes). Are we to blame the actions of that populace back then for causing it? Is it possible that nature could "adjust" temperatures once again?
Besides, many things I've read stated their beliefs are based on speculation and theory. Some are honest enough to report that by saying they are scientifically unsure because their theory isn't exact science due to how far back they can go in documented history. Even then they state it's theory. How can we know anything, if science can't get it together in their arguments? The little ice age, like the medieval warm period just before it, is still being debated over the cause or causes. Yet, we are to believe the theories that created those periods in time are generating our current issues that we are to now believe is fact.
Huh?
Furthermore, aren't we taught, metaphysically speaking, that we draw to us what we fear? Aren't we promoting fear? Fear is a very powerful emotion. Are we fearfully allowing our planet to go into another ice age over concerns for global warming?
Read the below Wikipedia excerpt, especially about the stabilization or advancing glaciers.
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"Mendenhall Glacier: The Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored the outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1942, including Mendenhall Glacier. The glacier has also receded 1.75 miles (2.82 km) since 1958, when Mendenhall Lake was created, and over 2.5 miles (4.0 km) since 1500. The end of the glacier currently has a negative glacier mass balance and will continue to retreat in the foreseeable future.
Given that average yearly temperatures are currently increasing, and the outlook is for this trend to continue, it is actually possible that the glacier might experience a period of stabilization or slight advance during its retreating march. This is because increasing amounts of warm, moist air will be carried up to the head of the icefield, where colder ambient temperatures will cause it to precipitate as snow. The increased amount of snow will feed the icefield, possibly enough to offset the continually increasing melting experienced at the glacier's terminus. However, this interesting phenomenon will fade away if temperatures continue to climb, since the head of the glacier will no longer have cold enough ambient temperatures to cause snow to precipitate."
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This excerpt makes me feel I'm reading something that says: this is what we've been seeing ... this is what we speculate ... but this can be changed all based on whatever. I feel like I'm being given something but it's being taken back at the same time. No wonder many are confused over this issue.
Yet, maybe we're underestimating "mother nature" or the power of our collective desires in keeping balance. Last winter was pretty cold. This winter is predicted to be colder. Is this a clue?
Anyway, after the many debates, of pros and cons I've read over the years, it just makes me wonder: what's up global warming?
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