Work on Solving Mendenhall Glacier Flooding Release- Not Just Forecasting Them

 There is an Icelandic term for a sudden release of water from underneath a glacier- a Jøkulhlaup, that occurs in Alaska and especially in Juneau in a populous area during late summers. Maybe the borough could use some seismic survey researchers or another kind of diagnostic imaging to locate and release with hot drilling, robots, lasers or some other method to govern water flow content capable of flooding with early, controlled release from glacial reservoirs in artificial, temporary channels.

Israel Gave Palestinian Gaza Rule Part of the Oslo Accord a 20 Year Trial

After two decades of incessant Palestinian attacks on Israel it seems Israel has run out of patience for tolerating an interminable conflict and has decided to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. It is an understandable choice by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Having the terror organization Hamas with a quasi legitimate governing status for most of that time has enabled the development of a vast underground terror cache of missiles and other weapons frequently used to attack Israel. Evidently the October 2023 invasion by Hamas to kill and kidnap Israelis from Israel and the years long refusal of Hamas to return living hostages or surrender to end the need to interminable war in the Gaza sometimes aided and abetted by external forces like the Houthis of Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran has brought the strategic Israeli need to change the context of the conflict of international war upon Israel.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/04/netanyahu-says-decision-made-for-full-occupation-of-gaza

The loss of civilians in the Gaza as casualties of the conflict is of course terrible. Simultaneously Christians and Druze are being killed in Syria as a part of the broader Muslim assertiveness through death for increasing empowerment. Syria is now led by a former member of Al Qa’eda, and like Ukraine’s Prime Minister has probably employed tawfiq (lying deceit) to trick President Trump into partially supporting their personal objectives of power through killing antipathetic persons.

It is a paradox that half of the Muslim world is developing almost cordial relations with the west while the other half is a hotbed of terrorism. When Israel develops the Gaza into a kind of beach resort and allows vetted Palestinian civilians to return there will still be conflict and terrorism by Hamas. However the underground base of Hamas terror weapons and equipment will no longer exist and the Gaza will no longer serve as a base with moderate impunity to attack Israel from. Hamas never participated in the Oslo accords and obviously has no respect for them as the Palestinian Authority once professed to have following the P.L.O.’s acceptance of the Accords. Given political sovereignty over the Gaza, Palestinians used it as a base for direct attacks on Israel.

In the future there may be a different path to a Palestinian return to the Gaza through a number of channels after peaceful, normalized relations exist between Palestinians and Jews. Until that time, if terror continues through new and traditional sources it is unlikely that Israel will want to try again a one-hand clapping approach to peace by giving the Gaza to the next generation of terrorists. No one should should expect a codicil to the 1994 Oslo Accord.

Science and Philosophy

Science means knowledge; different approaches exist to approach the summit of an elusive, incomplete goal. Modern science, like everything else, may be contained with a vast black whole with the entire Universe as speculated by theorists following Webb observations that 60% of galaxies rotate in the same direction. Alternatively it may be within the mind of God... Incompleteness theorems...

Properties of physics of a universe inside a black hole may differ from those of a universe without. Alternatively the universe may exist on the surface of a vast black hole, as information, and the black hole itself may be composed of data points concentrated with the power of a gravitational attraction of a radically unknown nature and shape- as a field or as concatenations of discrete micro dimensions made of information. Perhaps there are different forms of information that act like different 'physical properties comparable to the way machine languages may be built with different mathematical values.

Existential Data Points in Nature ( a poem)

 

Since the Younger Dryas
when the glacial melt woke
Mankind felt being and becoming
life was hard like a cruel joke

Wondering a portion of mystery
data points of science to perceive
got the mind and the woman
it is just info that ah need

Come on baby you know I have heard
an ecosphere leads to reason
sending me to lips I gotta love
such are phenomenal daydreams
flying days and nights away
while money kills the environment’s health
puttin nature down on a shelf
it ain’t gotta say

Complex ecosphere data stimulates the brain
branches and iterations, leaves are layered and lain
come on to the river were time flows
to a preponderance of galaxies spinning the same direction
a green place forever grows
life continues together
while wicked fallout would set us aglow.

https://suno.com/s/aNGMO6IrRc5EP6vu The poem as song lyrics

Faith vs Only-Evolution Camps...Sorting Things Out

 People in the modern world aren't so well educated in relevant topics to the criterion of the OP, or well rounded, and tend to be specialized. Once they learn something occupationally they stay with it. Scientist remain scientists and if group think opinion is anti-Christian so shall they tend to be. People that aren't philosophers tend not to think too deeply about philosophy and I would guess that pro philosophers tend toward occupational specialization as well. Actual intelligent, philosophy reading Americans at least might end up broke after college reading philosophy and not looking for academic employment or stocking groceries, driving a truck or whatever. Much of the opinion is superficial. There are Christian ministers that don't understand philosophy, or that believe there is an heretical Neo-pagan god of philosophy, and many readers of philosophy that have no idea about the several paradigms for belief in God that exist today. 

There are few that correlate philosophy, cosmology, physics and Christian faith with quantum mechanics and theology to consider how God could create a Multiverse within his mind solely, or that understand that Hegel's paradigm of God evolving to realize Himself through history may have numerous possible paradigmatic meaning values although Hegel assuredly had a single one. There are just not too many people that know interdisciplinary content well enough to understand and write about things. So it tends toward being a political paradigm of us vs them. Kierkegaard wrote a book named 'Stages on Life's Way'- a practical and rather wise title, yet life itself is a stage that people pass through- some believe unto nothingness, others belief unto eternal life with God via the Son, It is not only a temporal divide; it is an eternal divide. Fortunately religious tolerance is part of the American way of life. There are other temporal issues to be concerned with, such as these  I mentioned today elsewhere.

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2025/08/existential-data-points-of-nature.html

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2025/08/loss-of-tropical-forests-quarter.html

Existential Data Points of Nature

This is a note on the topic of perceptible data in an environment that reaches a brain. In my opinion some environments are far more rich in data, quantitatively than others. Some environments are plain and simple- a square room painted white for example, empty and devoid of furniture, While other environments have far more complexity.

 https://suno.com/s/e2UL7Vz32Ib0vCzl Existential Data Points in Nature (a song)

Wild forests are probably the most complex and data rich environments on Earth. Urban areas are probably the least complex. Humans have a history of reducing the complexity of their habitations to a non-stimulating level complete with regulated temperature.

A forest has a rich environment with billions of data points in branches, leaves, tree trunks, angles of trees, sunlight filtering and reflecting on branches, rain falling through a forest canopy, sounds temperatures hardness and softness variations etc. Urban areas have mostly standard variations on simplified, standard transportation facticities, level and uniform auto and pedestrian surfaces, ossified structural exteriors and interiors and so forth. People find an occasional flight of a bird of prey through an urban core to be a novel event, while in some rural areas someone may set a plate out for such a creature.

I wonder if scientists will eventual compare the complexity in data points of Hilbert space for a portion of wild coastal forests, southern tropical forests and various urban cores such as those of Cairo Egypt, Los Angeles and Chicago.

If they get that done and publish their results, and it might be interesting because humanity has for thousands of years moved into less complex environments they made for themselves for reasons of comfort seeking and economic prowess; they have made their intellectual life progressively more complex yet also somewhat common and standardized since the younger Dryas, and have lost the physiological challenges and stimulus to the body, brain and mind presented by the richly complex ecosphere of nature.

Loss of Tropical Forests a Quarter Billion Years Ago Helped Atmospheric Greenhouse Last 5 million Years

Recent scientific research found that global warming lasted five million years during the period of the Permian-Triassic Mass extinction. There have been five mass extinctions in the history of the 4 billion year old Earth, and some of those were caused by massive volcanic flows such as one called the Siberian traps and the Deccan flow in India 66 million years ago in the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/volcanic-coal-burning-siberia-led-climate-change

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

During the lava outpouring from the Siberian Traps tropical forests were lost. Thus there wasn't sufficient sequestration of Carbon dioxide to mitigate green house gassing and the greenhouse effect continued five million years. It is possible that human economic activities in the present configuration could induce a comparable effect upon the planet.

https://theconversation.com/around-250-million-years-ago-earth-was-near-lifeless-and-locked-in-a-hothouse-state-now-scientists-know-why-260203

That is, a only a third of the original tropical forests remain intact while human exhaust of CO2 into the atmosphere is fueling a greenhouse effect and global atmospheric heating. Additionally the world’s oceans are growing warmer and their capacity for sequestering carbon dioxide is uncertain while the ocean water becomes more acidic.

The photosynthesis of phytoplankton in the oceans absorbs a lot of CO2. Oceans absorb 30% of human gas emissions. If ocean health and life decreases the CO2 would remain, and not sink to the seafloor when phytoplankton die. Carbon sequestration of phytoplankton is regarded as equal to that of land plants. If tropical forests are reduced as well as phytoplankton the 10 billion tons annually of carbon released into the atmosphere by human could move humanity closer to that 5 million year castastrophe atmospheric flip to become a hothouse Earth.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/june/oceans-absorb-emissions

Politicians regard protracted war in Ukraine as of such vital importance that hundreds of thousands of lives may be lost and millions may become casualties.  They demonstrate the lack of reasoning and/or intelligence in the political order at the highest level as they are effectively incompetent at transitioning the global economy, or even national economies to sustainable ecological economic principles. Of course the politicians are puppets of the rich most heavily invested in the present maladaptive economic world order.

A paradox is the juxtaposition of the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics at the same time as humans are incapable of changing the basic economic form of the world to sustainability. Once robot and artificial intelligence replace most human occupational economic activity the people will become reliant on basic universal guaranteed income for a livelihood. It is critically important that the economic infrastructure supporting human life on Earth operated by robots and artificial intelligence is found upon complete ecological economics sustainability rather than an environmentally destructive approach of unsustainability. The saturation of the globe with microplastics itself needs to be significantly reversed with different modes of production and materials for production. Robots may not mind plastic pollution yet it is very damaging to biological life and ends up in the brain. As has been said often enough; every human on Earth generally has a teaspoon of microplastics in their brain already. Not even plastic hippies will be exempt from the consequence of increasing content of microplastics in brains, although they may be too doped to notice.

https://theconversation.com/around-250-million-years-ago-earth-was-near-lifeless-and-locked-in-a-hothouse-state-now-scientists-know-why-260203

America does have in effect a one-party system dedicated to enriching politicians while concentrating wealth. One party- the Democrats have traditionally sought environmental voters with environmental tokenism that usually is entirely reversible executive actions. They sometime talk a lot about environment during election cycles, yet never really mean it and usually fail produce competent plans for ecological economic reform at all. Such plans as they do produce would generally fail to have any political way forward. They capitalize on blaming someone or something disingenuously since what they really actualize are lawless borders, sexual license, illegal drugs, de facto censorship, social engineering and vast public deficits. Republicans just enrich the rich and concentrate wealth while not giving a rats ass about the environment. President Trump lately has joined the war monger international camp that profits from protracting the Ukraine war instead of settling with Russia on realistic, lasting peace.