My story about the heating of the planet…
In the summer of 1969 I was living in Anchorage Alaska. I took a trip to Seward a short days ride from Anchorage, and we came upon Portage Glacier which lies south of Anchorage near Turnagain Arm. This giant glacier flowed from a distant mountain into Cook Inlet. In order to build a road south to the Kenai Peninsula the state had to carve off the end of that 40 foot thick glacier to allow for the road. Every year or two they had to come back with ice saws to trim the Glacier to keep it from destroying the road, as it continued to head down the mountain and across the Tundra into the sea. I returned to Alaska in 1989 to vacation with my sister Fran. We again passed by Portage Glacier, only now there was a large expensive looking building that tells the story of the Glacier. The Glacier only 20 years later was a mile or more back from the road. This year my cousin Earl Ellisor sent me a picture of the glacier as it is now, 40 years later. It looks like a white teardrop between two mountains way in the distance…