Climate change anyone? Global Warming?

 Carbonic acid in air combines with rain water to form H2CO3.  H2CO3 erodes limestone, releasing carbon dioxide into the water + calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2.  Shell fish in the ocean apparently convert CA(OH)2 into limestone, CA(CO)3 (shellfish combine carbon + oxygen with calcium to form limestone). Photosysthysis also balances carbon. Plants and shellfish remove carbon from the envoronment. 

When it comes to carbon being released by nature into the environment, volcanos relese carbon.  Plants and animals and all life forms release carbon when they "burn" cabohydrates.  Also, carbonic acid in rain water combines with limestone to release carbon from the limestone rock.  Limestone is very abundent world wide, and carbonic acid in rain water impacts much of it, releasing carbon.

Large amounts of plant and animal material, contining much carbon, are buried each year in the deltas of major rivers, on the bottom of the oceans, and in lakes. Organic matter buried in the ocean eventially becomes oil, tar, and natural gas. The carbon that comes out of you car and our power plants was once buried in the earth, much of it during the Carboniforus Era.  When we burn fuel, the carbon goes back into the air where it came from in the first place. In good time it will again be bound with calcium or buried in the ocean.

I have this question.  How much carbon is in the air and the water today compared to the amount of carbon that was in the air and water in the past?  No one has provided to me an answer to this question that I trust.  Until I have the answer to this question, the issue of global warming is for me, a theory, not a fact.  Yes, I know that glaciers have been melting in Alaska, and ships have made the North West Passage, but at the South Pole, the ice is still there.  I have sumarized here in what I understand about clamate change.  I am a biologist with 38 years of experience, and I question the statments of lesser qualified people that endorse the theory of "global warming." I also question the statement of the unlearned that discount the posiblity of man caused climate change.

I have read that debris and soot, resulitng from air polution, are responsible for the melting of glaciers.

Dianne Guymon, Christmas at Marks 2006

The Time of the Gentiles Appears to be Ending, and Scattered Israel is Being Gathered.

"24 And this I have told you concerning Jerusalem; and when that day shall come (the Romans in 70 A.D. destroyed the Jewish tempile and captured Jerusalem), shall a remnant (of the Jews) be scattered among all nations; 
25 But they (the Jews) shall be gathered again; but they shall remain (in Palestine today?) until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled ;
26 And that day shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be in commotion, and men’s hearts shall fail them, and they shall say that Christ delayeth his coming until the end of the earth.
27 And the love of men shall wax cold, and iniquity shall abound.
28 And when the times of the Gentiles is come in, a light shall break forth among them that sit in darkness, and it shall be the fulness of my gospel (the restored Church).
29 But they (the Gentiles) receive it not; for they perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me (Jesus Christ) because of the precepts of men (so it was written and so it is happening before our very eyes).
30 And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Doctrine and Covenants Section 45: 24-29).
The gospel would be taken from the Gentiles and given to the remnant of Israel including the Jews.  What can we expect to happen in Palestine?

 "2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

 3 ¶And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it...

 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of hosts their God.

 6 ¶In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an  hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and  Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. (I, Eldon, have lived to see the Jews return to Palestine and win wars that were appeared to be impossible for them to win.)
8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

 9 ¶And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to  destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn" ( Holy Bible, 'Zechariah' Chapter 12: verses 2,3,5,6,9,10).

The gospel would be restored to the Gentiles and would be taught by the Gentiles to the descendents of Lehi:  Laman, Lemuel, and Nephi:  

24 But before the great day of the Lord shall come, Jacob (tribe of Ephraim?) shall flourish in the wilderness, and the Lamanites shall blossom as the rose (See my report in this blog on Native American conversions in Guatemala).
 25 Zion shall flourish upon the hills and rejoice upon the mountains (Utah is a Ute Indain name that means: tops of the mountains), and shall be assembled together unto the place which I have appointed (mountains) (Doctrine and Covenants 49: 24-25).  As fortold by the Lord in 1831, the saints have gathered to Utah and are a mighty people.  Also, the Lamanites are blossoming as a rose in Central America. 

When the State of Missiouri was killing the Mormons and driving Mormons out of the State of Missouri in the 1840's.  The Lord revealed the following to Joseph Smith: "I prophesied that the saints would continue to suffer much affliction and would be driven to the Rocky Mountains.  Many would apostaatize, many would be put to death by our persecutors...or lose their lives in consequense of exposure or disease, and some of you will...see the saints become a mighty people in the midst of the Rockey Mountains" (History of the Church, Volume 5, p. 85).  Little chance the Saints would be anything but dead or scattered in the 1840's.  I was born in Utah, a son of the pioneers through all of my lines.  The Saints did become a mighty people in the Rocky Montains.  I am one of them.  So it was fortold by the Lord, and so it was done.  My faith is baised on knowledge, common sense, and judgement.  Many base their beliefs on prejudice, desires, or hype.  My belief is based on the facts.

More from the Book of Mormon on Lamanite Conversion in the last days:

"... that in the latter days, when our seed (descendents of Nephi and his brothers, or some of the native Americans) shall have dwindled in unbelief, yea, for the space of many years, and many generations after the  Messiah shall be manifested in body unto the children of men, then shall the fulness of the gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles (restored Church), and from the Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed—(the natives of Guatemela recognize their traditions and history as recorded in the Book of Mormon).

 14 And at that day shall the remnant of our seed (some of the American Indains) know that they are of the house of Israel, and that they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and  come to the knowledge of their forefathers, and also to the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer, which was ministered unto their fathers by him; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine" (Book of Mormon, '1 Nephi' 15: 13-14).  So it was fortold, and so it is being done in Central America..  Missionaries from the Chruch of Jesus Christ are teaching the Native Americans, and they are joining the Church by the thousands.  Today there are fewer converts among the Gentiles. 

What happening now in the Church?

"...the Gentiles will be gathered by the thousands to this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world.  A spirt of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the results will be financial bondage. Persecution comes next, and all true Latter-day Saints will be tested to the limit.  Many will apostatize..." (Heber C. Kimball, as published in the Deseret News, May 23, 1931).  Regardless, the Lamanites will blossom as a rose.

I base my faith on what I know to be true. I know what I have written here in to be true.

What Will Happen to the Environment If Our Government Goes Broke

I am a biologist. My associates and I were successful in restoring the vegetative cover on millions of acres of over grazed, eroding, flood source range lands, but today lands that are too steep for cultivation and were in soil banks are now growing corn for auto fuel. In the Mid-West I have seen erosion coming from lands that are too steep for farming. Shame!!!! Mud in the rivers and flooding.

Every conservationist should read: “Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years” by W. C. Laudermilk, Assistant Chief, U. S. Soil Conservation Service, found on-line. Chief Laudermilk documents the ruin of resources when governments failed. Forest were cut to extinction. Goats and sheep overgrazed the lands, and the soil eroded away. What will happen to our land if our government spends the USA into bankruptcy?