I found this interesting experiment on line headed up by Sweden investigating the "vital statistics" of the areas under the glaciers in Antarctica. The robot managed immersible traveled under the glaciers in two areas and discovered the one area was still as anticipated but the second area has a warming trend underneath it. The loss of glaciers is huge and in this case the possibility of a melting glacier in the near future (hard to predict in actual years) is 1.7 metre rise in ocean levels which floods many low lying areas in the entire world. The impact far from the melting is huge. A rise of 1.7 metres is just slightly above my height before I shrunk 1.5 centimetres since I was at my full height in my 60s years of age (not too bad I guess) but I digress. It is this height that I am standing at that would be the amount of rise in the ocean level around all the lands of the world. One can go and stand at the edge of any land mass that faces the ocean (if they are my height) and see the impact in real time although the ocean will rise somewhat slowly over a period of time (unknown to me) but the impact on my thought process was large actually. We need to control the outflow of heat from the continents one is left to surmise perhaps. It is good to see that oceanographers are into this sort of thinking well in advance of the rise for sure. I wonder if my keeping my house at 20 degrees celsius in the winter helps with that. I actually do not like it warmer than that and did consider going to 19 but haven't done it yet. Perhaps if the whole world kept their house just a little cooler we can fend off the increase in the ocean warming. No ideas on that; there are people much more knowledgeable than I who are into it for sure.
Yesterday a little work on Chromosome 15 and I continue to view all of these matches to me at the beginning of the chromosome in this common or pile-up area and I only collected perhaps as little as ten percent of them (generally if they had a second match I would collect it or if there was something about the surname that was interesting or the location). Will I ever find that elusive line of my grandmother's mother as I become more and more suspicious that this is Ellen (Taylor) Buller's impact on our DNA and in particular mine since I am the only one matching all these people. But bearing in mind that this is a pile-up area and I finally looked at the updating in 23 and Me which lists the remainder of Chromsome 15 (away from the pile up area) as English (not a surprise) and in total I am listed as 94.9% English with 0.6% Irish, 0.4% Scot and 0.2% Welsh. The remaining 4.5 % includes 2.8% North Western European, 1.7% Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. The easy answer would have been for that area to be Irish but my Irish is not separated out from the English so interesting. Looking at Ancestry a deeper look with 67% Southeastern England and Northwestern Europe, 12% Northeast England, 5% Devon and Somerset. Now that is amazing really as I have these known area that my different lines came from which include north east England, Devon and Somerset, and southeastern England. I apparently have 2% Western Europe (Germans in Russia) and 1% Central and Eastern Europe (Estonia and Latvia) and another interesting section listing me as Celtic and Gaelic with 8% Central Scotland and Northern Ireland (planters perhaps which matches the mitochondrial matches to our line that went to the Carolinas from Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1772 (having been sent to Northern Ireland by Cromwell in the mid 1600s from Ayrshire/Argyllshire), 3% North East Scotland (Routledge were Highlanders as per my cousin's very intense research of this past twenty years) and 2% from Leinster, Ireland which is fascinating (this is the area around Dublin and the closest match to our yDNA comes from the Dublin area). Celtic and Gaelic being particularly ancient British Isles. When you get so many parts of a related family looking at their lines and knowing we do have common ancestry in the last thousand years these ethnicity predictions become more and more interesting. I still have Living DNA, My Heritage and FT DNA to look at and might do that another day. This update at Ancestry was October 2025 and once again I have not looked at it until now. At Ancestry I did find it possible to tentatively separate my parents and name the half circles as Maternal and Paternal. Interesting enough the Leinster, Ireland is in my mother's half circle (Buller/Taylor belongs on this side) as does North East Scotland (Routledge also my mother's side). An interesting review to add to my thinking of Chromosome 15 and my singleton matches at the beginning of the Chromosome.
Plans for today include working on Chromosome 15 and perhaps skiing depending on just how cold it is out there - I might stick to the back yard. My new exercise is improving my balance and will keep that up for sure. We are making Thai larb for dinner which is a really interesting meat salad using ground pork and cooking it with lots and lots of grated carrot, peppers, onions, and ginger. It is quite delicious and served over rice if you so choose (which we do tend to do). It is a favourite dinner actually. It is also excellent in a wrap with lettuce. Just a nice easy meal that cooks up quickly and is very tasty. We add a set of herbs and spices to it as well. I like to add molasses and red wine vinegar to give it just that very generous taste and sweetness.
New Year is approaching quickly and one hopes for peace in our world sooner rather than later. God did not mean for us to be doing battle around the world but rather to have peace and we know that because Jesus told us that the two commandments which His father wanted us to have were: we would love God His Father and Creator of this world with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Two simple commandments to lead to a peaceful and productive life instead of this constant murder of people in order to steal their land and riches from them.
Solitaire puzzles done and tea drank so on to the day, setting up to begin my matches work on Chromosome 15 and exercise sprinkled in through the day. God bless the world and all who live in it and make us the best people that is Your desire and commandment.
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