A VOLCANIC ERUPTION AND THE BRINGING FORTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON

I am not sure where I first saw this, but I mentioned it in a class and everyone looked at me with a blank stare.  I thought it was common knowledge that the Lord basically allowed a volcano to explode, causing a young family to be forced to move from the cold state of Vermont to "warmer" climes of upstate New York where they could possibly eke out a subsistence living more easily - and where a young boy would go to a glacially-formed hill to be shown a record that had been deposited there by an ancient people that had previously inhabited the land.  The greatest factor in the climate change that led to the dawning of this last dispensation, was the eruption of Mt. Timbora.  Here is a detailed account from wikipedia:

Year Without a Summer

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Year Without a Summer
1816 summer temperature anomaly with respect to 1971–2000 climatology
Volcano	Mount Tambora
Date	April 10, 1815
Type	Ultra Plinian
Location	Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia 8°15′S 118°0′E / 8.25°S 118°E / -8.25; 118
VEI	7
Impact	Caused a volcanic winter that dropped temperatures by 0.4 to 0.7 °C worldwide

The Year Without a Summer (also known as the Poverty Year, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death^[1]) was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by about 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F),^[2] resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.^[3][4] It is believed that the anomaly was caused by a combination of a historic low in solar activity with a volcanic winter event, the latter caused by a succession of major volcanic eruptions capped by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the largest known eruption in over 1,300 years.
Historian John D. Post has called this "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world".^[5]

Description

The unusual climatic aberrations of 1816 had the greatest effect on the northeastern United States, Atlantic Canada, and parts of western Europe. Typically, the late spring and summer of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada are relatively stable: temperatures (average of both day and night) average about 68 °F (20 °C) and 77 °F (25 °C) and rarely fall below 41 °F (5 °C). Summer snow is an extreme rarity.
In the spring and summer of 1816, a persistent "dry fog" was observed in the northeastern US. The fog reddened and dimmed the sunlight, such that sunspots were visible to the naked eye. Neither wind nor rainfall dispersed the "fog". It has been characterized as a stratospheric sulfate aerosol veil.^[6]
In May 1816,^[1] frost killed off most of the crops that had been planted, and on 4 June 1816, frosts were reported in Connecticut, and by the following day, most of New England was gripped by the cold front. On 6 June 1816, snow fell in Albany, New York, and Dennysville, Maine.^[7] Nearly 12 inches (30 cm) of snow was observed in Quebec City in early June, with consequent additional loss of crops—most summer-growing plants have cell walls which rupture even in a mild frost. The result was regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic,^{[clarification needed]} and increased mortality.
In July and August, lake and river ice were observed as far south as Pennsylvania. Rapid, dramatic temperature swings were common, with temperatures sometimes reverting from normal or above-normal summer temperatures as high as 95 °F (35 °C) to near-freezing within hours. Even though farmers south of New England did succeed in bringing some crops to maturity, maize and other grain prices rose dramatically. The price of that staple food, oats,^[8] for example, rose from 12¢ a bushel ($3.40/m³) in 1815, equal to $1.52 in today's purchasing power to 92¢ a bushel ($26/m³) in 1816, equal to $12.6 today. Those areas suffering local crop failures had to deal with the lack of roads in the early 19th century, preventing any easy importation of bulky food stuffs.^[9]
Cool temperatures and heavy rains resulted in failed harvests in Britain and Ireland as well. Families in Wales travelled long distances as refugees, begging for food. Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oats, and potato harvests. The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply. Due to the unknown cause of the problems, demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century.^[7][10]
In China, the cold weather killed trees, rice crops, and even water buffalo, especially in northern China. Floods destroyed many remaining crops. Mount Tambora’s eruption disrupted China’s monsoon season, resulting in overwhelming floods in the Yangtze Valley in 1816. In India the delayed summer monsoon caused late torrential rains that aggravated the spread of cholera from a region near the River Ganges in Bengal to as far as Moscow.^[11]
In New York City, the temperature dropped to −26 °F (−32 °C) during the ensuing bitter winter of 1817. This resulted in a freezing of New York's Upper Bay deep enough for horse-drawn sleighs to be driven across Buttermilk Channel from Brooklyn to Governors Island.^[12]
The effects were widespread and lasted beyond the winter. In eastern Switzerland, the summers of 1816 and 1817 were so cool that an ice dam formed below a tongue of the Giétro Glacier high in the Val de Bagnes. In spite of the efforts of the engineer Ignaz Venetz to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically in June 1818.^[13]

Causes

It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the 1815 (April 5–15) volcanic Mount Tambora eruption^[14][15] on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia (then part of the Dutch East Indies, but under British rule during Napoleon's occupation of the Netherlands), described by Thomas Stamford Raffles.^[16] The eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index ranking of 7, a super-colossal event that ejected immense amounts of volcanic ash into the upper atmosphere. It was the world's largest eruption since the Hatepe eruption over 1,630 years earlier in AD 180. That the 1815 eruption occurred during the middle of the Dalton Minimum (a period of unusually low solar activity) may also be significant.^{[citation needed]}
Other large volcanic eruptions (with VEI at least 4) during the same time frame are:

• 1812, La Soufrière on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean
• 1812, Awu in the Sangihe Islands, Indonesia
• 1813, Suwanosejima in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
• 1814, Mayon in the Philippines

These other eruptions had already built up a substantial amount of atmospheric dust. As is common following a massive volcanic eruption, temperatures fell worldwide because less sunlight passed through the atmosphere.

Effects

As a result of the series of volcanic eruptions, crops in the above-mentioned areas had been poor for several years; the final blow came in 1815 with the eruption of Tambora. Europe, still recuperating from the Napoleonic Wars, suffered from food shortages. Food riots broke out in the United Kingdom and France, and grain warehouses were looted. The violence was worst in landlocked Switzerland, where famine caused the government to declare a national emergency. Huge storms and abnormal rainfall with floodings of the major rivers of Europe (including the Rhine) are attributed to the event, as was the frost setting in during August 1816. A major typhus epidemic occurred in Ireland between 1816 and 1819, precipitated by the famine caused by "The Year Without a Summer". It is estimated that 100,000 Irish perished during this period. A BBC documentary using figures compiled in Switzerland estimated that fatality rates in 1816 were twice that of average years, giving an approximate European fatality total of 200,000 deaths.
New England also experienced great consequences from the eruption of Tambora. The corn crop was grown significantly in New England and the eruption caused the crop to fail. It was reported that in the summer of 1816 corn ripened so badly that no more than a quarter of it was usable for food. The crop failures in New England, Canada and parts of Europe also caused the price of wheat, grains, meat, vegetables, butter, milk and flour to rise sharply.
The eruption of Tambora also caused Hungary to experience brown snow. Italy experienced something similar, with red snow falling throughout the year. The cause of this is believed to have been volcanic ash in the atmosphere.
In China, unusually low temperatures in summer and fall devastated rice production in Yunnan province in the southwest, resulting in widespread famine. Fort Shuangcheng, now in Heilongjiang province, reported fields disrupted by frost and conscripts deserting as a result. Summer snowfall was reported in various locations in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, both in the south of the country. In Taiwan, which has a tropical climate, snow was reported in Hsinchu and Miaoli, while frost was reported in Changhua.^[17]

Cultural effects

Hong Kong sunset c. 1992 after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

High levels of ash in the atmosphere led to unusually spectacular sunsets during this period, a feature celebrated in the paintings of J. M. W. Turner. It has been theorised that it was this that gave rise to the yellow tinge that is predominant in his paintings such as Chichester Canal circa 1828. Similar phenomena were observed after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa and on the West Coast of the United States following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.
The lack of oats to feed horses may have inspired the German inventor Karl Drais to research new ways of horseless transportation, which led to the invention of the draisine or velocipede. This was the ancestor of the modern bicycle and a step toward mechanized personal transport.^[18]
The crop failures of the “Year without a Summer” may have helped shape the settling of the "American Heartland", as many thousands of people (particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest (then the Northwest Territory) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.^[19]

Chichester Canal circa 1828 by J. M. W. Turner

According to historian L.D. Stillwell, Vermont alone experienced a drop of 10,000 to 15,000 people, erasing seven previous years of population growth.^[5] Among those who left Vermont were the family of Joseph Smith, who moved from Sharon, Vermont, to Palmyra, New York.^[20] This move precipitated a series of events which culminated in the publication of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[11]
In July 1816 "incessant rainfall" during that "wet, ungenial summer" forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday. They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write "A Fragment", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre^[21] — a precursor to Dracula. In addition, Lord Byron was inspired to write a poem, Darkness, at the same time.
Justus von Liebig, a chemist who had experienced the famine as a child in Darmstadt, later studied plant nutrition and introduced mineral fertilizers.

Comparable events

• Toba catastrophe 70,000 to 75,000 years ago
• The 1628–26 BC climate disturbances, usually attributed to the Minoan eruption of Santorini
• The Hekla 3 eruption of about 1200 BC, contemporary with the historical bronze age collapse
• The Hatepe eruption (sometimes referred to as the Taupo eruption), around the year 180 CE
• Climate changes of 535–536 CE have been linked to the effects of a volcanic eruption, possibly at Krakatoa.
• An eruption of Kuwae, a Pacific volcano, has been implicated in events surrounding the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
• An eruption of Huaynaputina, in Peru, caused 1601 to be the coldest year in the Northern Hemisphere for six centuries (see Russian famine of 1601–1603).
• An eruption of Laki, in Iceland, caused thousands of fatalities in Europe, 1783–84.
• The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to odd weather patterns and temporary cooling in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and parts of the Northeast. An unusually mild winter and a warm, early spring were followed by an unusually cool, wet summer and a cold, early autumn in 1992.

Here is more on the explosion - what a massive bang; four times the size of Krakatoa!!

         

EXTREME IRONY - TRAGEDY LEADING TO CHANGE (HOPEFULLY)

WHILE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS TRAGIC (AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE), LETS CONNECT THE DOTS. SEE IF YOU CAN FIND WHERE THE EVENT HAPPENED, THE LOSS OF WHO WAS INVOLVED, AND WHY THIS IS SO BLOODY IRONIC. QUIZ ANSWERS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE:

Family of Abortion Business Owner Irving Feldkamp Dies in Montana Plane Crash

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 26, 2009

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Butte, MT (LifeNews.com) -- The crash of a small airplane in Montana carrying a family from California after a ski trip has made the national news, but the mainstream media hasn't yet connected the dots. Were they to dig a little deeper, they would learn that the family killed in the crash has an infamous abortion connection.

The crash involved two daughters of a prominent California abortion business owner, Irving "Bud" Feldkamp, and their families.

Feldkamp owns the Family Planning Associates abortion business he purchased four years ago, but the mainstream media is only mentioning his ownership of a dental practice and that he is the CEO of Glen Helen Raceway Park in San Bernardino.

That is despite the fact that his 17 FPA abortion centers do more abortions in the state of California than Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business.

Their plane went down on Sunday killing daughters Vanessa and Amy, two of Feldkamp's sons-in-law, five grandchildren, the pilot and four family friends.

For pro-life advocates who are familiar with Feldkamp's exploits as an abortion business owner, the crash is sad news but it carries a certain irony.

The plane crashed into Catholic Holy Cross cemetery near the Butte airport and burst into flames. The site of the devastating impact and the deaths of the 14 passengers was near a memorial erected in the cemetery to honor unborn children who have died in abortions.

The memorial, called the Tomb of the Unborn, was erected as a dedication to all babies who have died because of abortion.

Gingi Edmonds, a young pro-life activist, noticed the connection and the irony associated with Feldkamp and the site of the plane crash.

"Although Feldkamp is not an abortionist, he reaps profits of blood money from the tens of thousands of babies that are killed through abortions performed every year at the clinics he owns," she says.

"His business in the abortion industry was what enabled him to afford the private plane that was carrying his family to their week-long vacation," Edmonds adds.

Edmonds, who spent time with the pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, helped organize and conduct a weekly campaign where youth activists stood outside of Feldkamp's mini-mansion in Redlands holding fetal development signs and raising community awareness regarding Feldkamp's abortion business ownership.

"Every Thursday afternoon we called upon Bud and his wife Pam to repent, seek God's blessing and separate themselves from the practice of child killing," she said.

Edmonds isn't sure if the plane crash is God's way of warning Feldkamp that he needs to end his involvement in the abortion industry, but she can't help but recall the Feldkamps reactions to her signs showing developing unborn children.

"Pam Feldkamp laughing at the fetal development signs, Bud Feldkamp trying not to make eye contact as he got into his car with a small child in tow" -- those are what she recalls.

"I only hope and pray that in the face of this tragedy, Feldkamp recognizes his need for repentance and reformation," Edmonds says.

"I pray that God will use this unfortunate catastrophe to soften the hearts of Bud and Pam and that they will draw close to the Lord and wash their hands of the blood of thousands of innocent children, each as precious and irreplaceable as their own," she concludes.

GOOD JOB. THE IRONY KIDDIES IS THAT THIS GUY SPENDS HIS ENTIRE LIFE EARNING MONEY ON THE SNUFFING OUT OF INNOCENT LIFE - THEN USES SOME OF THAT FILTHY LOOT TO SEND HIS INNOCENT CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN ON A SKIING TRIP WHOSE LIVES ARE THEN SNUFFED OUT AS THEIR OVERLOADED PLANE SLAMS INTO A PORTION OF THE BUTTE CEMETERY DEVOTED TO UNBORN CHILDREN WHO HAVE DIED IN ABORTIONS. DID THE MAINSTREAM NEWS REPORT THIS????? OF COURSE NOT KIDDIES - WE WOULDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO BE AWARE THAT IN SOME COSMIC WAY, THERE MIGHT BE DIVINE RETRIBUTION FOR OUR REBELLIOUS ACTS WHILE IN THIS LIFE. MUCH LIKE YOU NEVER SEE THE MARLBORO MAN HACKING FOR HIS LAST BREATH AT THE END OF THE MANLY COMMERCIAL OR JAMES BOND BROKEN OUT IN YET ANOTHER RUNAWAY CASE OF HERPES LESIONS AFTER DEMONSTRATING



A LIFE OF UNBRIDLED AND RECKLESS ABANDON ON THE MOVIE SET. I LOVE IT WHEN THERE IS PAYOUT IN THIS LIFE. THIS INDIVIDUAL WILL NOW HAVE THE REST OF HIS LIFE TO VISIT THE CRASH SITE AND BE REMINDED OF THE OTHER SNUFFED-OUT LIVES..... COMPLETE AND TOTAL IRONY!

A LITTLE MORE TO THE IRONIC TALE - RIGHT AFTER BUYING THE CLINICS, HIS PRIDE AND JOY GRANDSON IS CALLED OVER IN AN ACCIDENT REMINISCENT OF WHAT HAPPENS IN AN ABORTION. MAYBE THAT WAS GOD'S SHOT ACROSS THE BOW - WITH THE PLANE WRECK BEING THE WAKEUP CALL.... READING THIS FREAKS ME OUT: LINK



AND SOME MORE COMMENTARY FROM THE L.A. TIMES ABOUT THIS BUSINESS OWNER WHO BROUGHT PEOPLE SO MUCH JOY......???: LINK http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/03/---font-definit.html

HERE IS A FOLLOW-ON TO THIS ARTICLE; I HAVE A FEELING THE TWO MAY BE RELATED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPF1FhCMPuQ

POWERFUL!!