Fairy on a Lily Pad

Fairy on Lily Pad

Fairies love hanging out on Lily Pads.  They have a kind of cloaking magic that makes them look like a frog to us mortals.  Only very special mortals get to see the true Fairy.  Of course many frogs on lily pads really ARE frogs.  But Fairies have a way to recognize how we artists look at things. . . so I, as an artist, have been able to see these fairies and hence all the Fairy drawings.  The Fairies told me that I am not allowed to say too much about the Fairies I have known, but the a few months ago a delegation from the Fairy Queen let me know that I need to start sharing what I know in order to help out the planet.  The Fairies are very concerned about how we mortals have abused the planet.  They do not want to see the suffering that will come with runaway global warming so they are encouraging me to say more.  

Fairies have more advacned technology than we do.  They wear those fancey belts that you see on this Fairy because those are actually flying belts that use neutrino power to create anti-gravitiy.  The beautiful Fariy wings are partly for steerning and some propulsion.  But the belts are what really helps a Fairy to defy gravity.  

Fairies have used this technology  to do all they can to take care of our planet.  It is their planet too.  They care that we are more careful with our trash.  They also want us to recognize the importance of curbing global warming.  Fairies have been on Earth for many thousands of years before mortals.  They can live for hundreds of years.  So they have first hand knowledge of seeing what the mortal industrial revolution has done to the Earth.  

This Fairy, named Clair, is monitoring the pond for pollution and temperature increases.  She is particularly concerned about the global decrease of many frog and other amphibian populations.  There are over 7,000 known species of amphibians and about a third of the species are in decline and therefore threatened.  

Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith near ther Nauvoo Temple

(new drawing so at the top of the list under the Religious button)

Joseph Smith was the prophet of the Restoration.  He founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  He was able to accompligh so much in a young life.  He was martyred in his mid thirties.  He never saw this (Nauvoo) Temple completed.  As a young man he translated the Book of Mormong from anciet gold plates.   He said an angel gave him the golden plates and that he, Joseph, translated the plates by the gift and power of God.  Joseph also said that the Book of Mormon is a recond of God's dealings with His people in the Americas.   

As a member of the church he founded I can tell you that I read the Book of Mormon.   I asked myself the question:  "Could any man have written this book?"   In other  words, did Joseph Smith really translate the Book of Mormon, or did he just write it?   My answer was that no single man nor group of men could have possibly written that book.  

So to me, if the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God.  And if Joseph Smith was a prophet, then the church he founded is the true restored church of Jesus Christ.     

Joseph Smith translates the Golden Plates

(older drawing so printable version found at bottom of Religous list)

Snow Elf and Spring Fae

Snow Elf and Spring Fae

This is Faendal, the Snow Elf and Thistle, the Spring Fae.  They live in an Enchanted Forest.  Faendal and Thistle have known each other their entire lives.  They are currently working together to keep the Enchanted Forest safe.  

Moros intrepidus or wee rex

Moros intredipus or wee rex

96 million years ago in what is now Southern Utah there lived an ancestor of the well known Tyrannosaurus rex.  This dinosaur was recently found.  Of course its fossilized BONES were found.  It has been exticnt for almost 100 million years. 

Moros intrepidus was small compared to its gigantic decendants.  It was about the size of a white tail  deer  buck....or it weighed around 170 lbs. .  It could not evolve to apex predator status due to the presence of Allosaurs.  But once the Allosaurs went extinct the decendants of Moros started to evolve larger size.  They eventually became Daspleteosaurus, Albertosaurs, and of course the biggest. . . the 9 ton T. rex.    

Moros stood only about 4 feet oe 1.2 m  tall at the hips and maybe just under 5 feet or 1.5 m tall  at the top of the head.  These sizes are estimates since the full dino's skeleton was not found.  In fact its legs were found and thoight to be about 4 feet or 1.2 m long.  My guess is that it was somewhere between 5 and 6 or 7 feet long... or 1.5 to 2 meters long.  

This dinosaur was only very recently named.  It resembles early Tyrannosaurs from Europe.  This is all evidence that the Tyrannosaurs  crossed a land bridge from Asia.   After the Allosaurs were out of the way they evolved to huge sizes in only 16 million years. . . . to fill the niche of top predator in North America and Asia. 

Allosaurus by a River

White Tail Deer Buck and Doe

White Tail Deer Buck

Lythronax el primer tiranosaurio

Lythronax

Lythronax fue el primer tyranosaurio dinosaurio conocido.  Vivió en el sur parte del estado de utah en los estadous unidos. 

Es posible que tuviera proto-plumas. Estos no fueron utilizados para el vuelo. Medía 8 metros de largo y pesaba 2.5 toneladas.

Todo el dibujo estaba dibujado en la oficina del doctor de respiritorio cuando yo estaba esperando a ver el doctor.  

Garden Fairy having fun with a Mouse

Fairy playing in the Garden

You may not have seen them, but gardens often have Fairies AKA Garden Fairies.  They are very playful.  They befriend animals, like this mouse, and often play games with them.  

If you noticec that this Fairy is not drawn as detailed and carefully as some of my other more recent Fairies, you should know that I drew this while waiting in the doctor's office.  Well, the last little bit was done at the counter before I left so I could leave a copy for the doctors and their staff.  

The drawing was based on this beautiful statue I saw on the internet.  Since these are kid coloring pages I added clothing to my drawing.  

Fairy Playing in the Garden on a Rock statue

Lythronax the first Tyrannosaur

Lythronax with Protofeathers

Lythronax is the earliest of all the Tyrannosaurs.  That is a big deal.  At the University of Utah they have a head mock up of Lythronax and it has protofeathers  A couple of years ago a Paleontology Professor there told me that sooner or later we will discover a T. rex or Tyrannosaurus rex with evidence of feathers.  The mock up and my drawing of it both show Lythronax with protofeathers.  They are not flying feathers. . . probably they were just for display.   They might have been brightly colored like a peacock. . . we don't know.   As far as size, Lythronax argestes was 26 feet or 8 meters long and it weighed 2.5 metrci tonnes or 5,500 lbs.  

I have drawn Lythronax before.  It is a dinosaur on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.  Today we went to that museum and afterwards I had a doctor's appointment.   This may be T.M.I. but these are not the most pleasant of doctor appointments,  The doctors are awesome, as are their staff.   But one of the doctors has to put a camera down my throat and take a look.   That is never fun. . . although it IS kind of interesting to watch the show.   I was at the University of Utah Airway Clinic.  They have to scope me every time I go in there.  I have a T Tube stent holding open a collapsing trachea (windpipe) so they are monitoring my situation.   If you wonder why sometimes I don't post for a while . . . it is usually because my trachea is giving me problems.  So, sorry about the gaps.   But I'm hanging in there.  This drawing was entirely done while I waited in the doctor's office.  

Wizarding Dayz is this week!

Wizard Self Portrait

Wizarding Dayz is held at the Mountain America Expo Center in the city of Sandy, Utah, USA.  My wife and I do a Potions Class at this fun event!  I will also have some of my drawings there to give away.  These will be mostly my Fantasy Drawings.  

Find out more at     wizardingdayz.com

Me, at Wizarding Dayz Potions Class

In honor of Wizarding Dayz I am re-posting some of my fantasy drawings.  They can be found in printable form under the buttons up top:  All Printables . . . . and. . . . Fantasy Myths and Circus 

Unicorn Stallion at an Overlook

Fairy with a robin

Dragon mates flying over a Castle

Warrior Princess and Unicorn defending a  Castle

Fairy among the Roses

Unicorn Traditional Look

Fairy holding Crystal Ball while riding Unicorn

Honeybees and Ozone

Honeybee near Milk Thistle Flower

Most people like flowers.  Of course the lovely scent evolved, not to make us happy, but to attract pollinators like honeybees.  Honyebees, of course, are attracted to flowers.  The insect pollinators can see color from the flower petals and they can smell the scent.  The honeybee eats the nectar from flower in order to make honey.  In the process of getting theri nectar the honeybee gets pollen on thier body and take the pollen to neighboring flowers.  Pollen is like a sperm cell in an animal.  When the honeybee brings the pollen to a flower of the.same species then a pollen tube grows from the pollen and it grows down to the ovum or egg. . . deep in the flower.  The pollen sends its DNA down and  fertilizes the egg in the other flower.  Again, this only works if the flower is  of the same species of plant.  There is research from 2015 that shows that Ozone levels in the atmosphere can affect how far flower scent travels.   The research showed that this affected how well honeybees could find flowers in urban areas, where cars etc. give off a great deal of ozone.  

By the way, Ozone is O3 or three oxygen molecules bonded together.  Up high in the atmosphere ozone help blocs some of the n's energy.  Down low, where we live, ozone is a problem.   Ozone is produced naturally in the upper atmosphere by ultraviolet radiation   Another way ozone is created is by lightning moving through the air.  The lighning makes the O2 add an extra oxygen and we get O3 molecules.  This is why when there is a thunder storm there is that nice smell.  We are smelling ozone molecules.  

fée des champignons français

French Fairy named Madi
(fée des champignons français)

Les fées aux champignons sont ainsi nommées parce qu'elles aiment s'asseoir sur des champignons. C'est une fée française aux champignons. Elle habite dans la forêt en France. Elle est immunisée contre les poisons trouvés dans Amanita muscania. Cette espèce est un champignon emblématique, en fait. Il est rouge avec des taches blanches si vous voulez le colorer avec précision.

Note d'artiste: Mon modèle est un parent et elle s'appelle Madi. C'est une belle jeune femme qui est à la fois américaine et française. Cette espèce de champignon ou de champignon vit vraiment en France. . . et dans beaucoup d'autres parties du monde. Il est originaire de l'hémisphère nord. Il est originaire d'Amérique du Nord, d'Asie du Nord et, bien sûr, d'Europe. Il a également été introduit accidentellement par l'homme dans l'hémisphère sud. Ne le mange pas. . . c'est un poison. J'ai donné à Madi le choix de son style d'aile. Elle a choisi le style des ailes de chrysopes. Certains insectes chrysopes ont les minuscules taches noires ... une tache sur chacune de leurs quatre ailes.

Enfin, le mot français pour fée est Fée. J'ai appris que forme la mère de Madi. Elle et son mari ont élevé leurs enfants bilingues. C'est une excellente chose à faire à mon avis. Quand vous connaissez deux langues, vous comprenez mieux comment fonctionne la langue. Des études ont montré que pour les personnes qui connaissent deux langues, celles-ci sont stockées dans différentes parties de leur cerveau.

J'espère que cette traduction française est exacte. J'utilise Google Traduction. Je parle espagnol mais je ne parle pas français. La mère de mon modèle peut peut-être me dire si Google Translate a mal traduit.  Son père connaît le français aussi, bien sûr. . . comme le fait Madi.

French Mushroom Fairy named Madi

French Fairy named Madi

Mushroom Fairies are thus named because they like to sit on mushrooms.  This is a French Mushroom Fairy.  She lives in the forest in France.  She is immune to the poisons found in Amanita muscania.   This species is an iconic toadstool, actually.  It is red with white spots if you want to color it accurately.

Artist Note:  My model is a relative and she IS named Madi.  She is a beautiful young woman who actually is part American and part French.  This species of mushroom or toadstool really does live in France . . . and in many other parts of the world.  It originated in the Northern Hemisphere.  It is native to both North America, Northern Asia, and of course Europe.  It has been accidentally introduced by Man into the Southern Hemisphere as well.  Don't eat it. . . it IS poisonous.   I gave Madi of choice of her wing style.  She chose the lacewing style of wings.  Some lacewing insects DO have the tiny black spots ... one spot on each of their four wings.

Lacewing with a Spot on each Wing.  This one is an Antlion from Malasia

 Finally, the word for Fairy in French is Fée.  I learned that form Madi's mother.  She and her husband raised their kids bilingual.  That is an awsome thing to do in my opinion.  When you know two languages you understand more how language works.  Studies have shown that for people who know two languages, the two languages are stored in different parts of their brain.

Another Artist's Note:  I just realized that I forgot to post the printable version of the Fairy named Madi.  It is now posted.  Just go to either the "All Printables" button or the "Fantasy Myths and Circus" button and scroll down.  New drawings are always at the bottom of the lists.  

Jesus explains being Born Again to Nicodemus

Jesus sitting on a Wall with Nicodemus

Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews.  He came to Jesus by night and was taught about being born again.  The Latter Day Saint perspective is that being born of the water is baptism and being born of the Spirit kind of has two meanings.  After baptism we believe in being confirmed and receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands.  This is the baptism by fire.  

But the baptism by fire is also gaining your testimony about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and committing yourself to try your best to keep His commandments.  This type of conversion experience sometimes happens suddenly, like with Saul or Paul on the road to Damascus.   But for most of us this is a gradual thing.  We do choose to follow the Savior, but being cleansed from all unrighteousness can be a gradual process.  

Sometimes we have a spiritual experience where we feel the Holy Ghost confirming our beliefs.  It can be one of those baptisms by fire.   Yet often we rely on the calming influence of the Holy Ghost to guide and help us in our lives.  This is still a baptism by fire.  

I drew this scene of Jesus with Nicodemus a couple of years ago.  I neglected to show that it was nighttime when Nicodemus first came to Jesus.  Later Nicodemus truly converted.  He even was there to help with the burial of Jesus.  I taught my Sunday School Class this story today. 

Below is an older drawing of the scene with Jesus and Nicodemus.  

Jesus with Nicodemus

Also in our lesson for Sunday School today was the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.    All older drawings are at the bottom of the lists.  The lists of printable drawings are at the top of the blog.  New drawings are at the bottom of the lists. 

It is interesting that Jesus went to everyone.  He did not just teach the wealthy or just the righteous.  He taught the wealthy Nicodemus.  Yet he also taught the Samaritan woman who had been through 5 husbands and was living with a sixth man.  In fact, I think that she was one of if not the first person to whom Jesus declared His divine son-ship.  .   .  and the fact that He was the Savior or Messiah.  

Woman at the well with Jesus

gigante dinosaurio trueno al amanecer

Gigante Dinosaurio Trueno al Almencer

Ledumahdi mafube

El nombre del dinosaurio es de un idioma de sudáfrica.   El dinosaurio era un sauropodomorf pero sus decendientes viajaron de sudáfrica al continente de surámerica.  Con el tiempo evolucionaron hasta convertirse en enormes saurópodos como Argentionosaurus y Patagotitan.  Ledumahadi tenia rasgos de los sauropodos y de los mas temprano prosauropodomorfes.   

Patagotitan World's Biggest Dinosaur

Dinosaurio mas grande en el Mundo

Argentinosaurus at Nesting Site

Argentinosaurus en el sitio de anidación

Giant Thunderclap Dinosaur at Dawn

Giant Thunderclap Dinosaur at Dawn

AKA Ledumahadi mafube

Ledumahadi mufabe was a Prosauropod or Sauropodomorph.  It was a precursor to the giant Sauropods.  Ledumahadi lived in the Early Jurassic Period before Sauropods grew to gigantic sizes.  It was about 13 feet tall at the hips.  That is 4 meters.  It weighed around 12 tons or around 24,000 lbs.  It was the largest land animal on Earth in its day.  It was the biggest thing walking through the forest.  Over millions of years Ledumahadi mufabe evolved into some of the true giants in the history of life on Earth.  It had characteristics of both the very early Sauropodomorphs and the later Sauropods.  DownIbelow I added a drawing of Plateosaurus.  Plateosaurus was a lighter built Sauropodomorph or Prosauropod.  "Pro" in this case means "pre"  because it was an ancestor to the later full Sauropods.  Notice that Plateosaurus was built lighter and not as robust.  It was possibly an ancestor to the later big Sauropods like Diplodocus.  Diplodocus was huge and very long, but built lighter than the Titanosaurs like Patagotitan and Argentinosaurus. 

Its name is from one of the languages from where it was found.  It was found in South Africa.  The language is Sesotho and the name means Giant Thunderclap at Dawn.  The legs are huge but not built like columns.  The later Sauropods had the columnar legs.  And of course, the later Sauropods grew to to be up to 60 tons.  The later Sauropods had longer necks as well. . . and they had proportionally smaller heads.  This dinosaur was probably an ancestor to Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan that lived much later in Argentina. So descendants of Ledumhadi must have migrated to Suoth America. . . of course at the time the continents stilled touched so they did not have to swim. You know, the correct term is probably RADIATED to South America, not migrated. A species radiation is about how a species spreads out to new areas.

In the drawing the Ledumahadi is feeding on a cycad tree.  The plants are all from the Mesozoic Era.  The Jurassic Period is one of the periods of the Mesozoic Era.  

NOTE:  The printable versions are found by clicking on the top buttons labeled either:  

All Printables . . . . or . . . . Paleontology.  The newest drawings are always at the bottom of the correct list.  Below are Patagotitan and Argenitonsaurs drawings.  They are probably descendants of Ledumahadi.

Patagotitan mayorum the Biggest Dinosaur

Argentinosaurus at Nesting Site

Plateosaurus 

Diplodocus on hind legs feeding on Cycad Tree

Adam and Eve with the Forbidden Fruit

Adam and Eve with Forbidden Fruit

In honor of Valentine's Day, I decided to draw the first married couple from the Bible.  Adam and Eve were married by God in the Garden of Eden.  Our view is that the decision to partake of the Forbidden Fruit was a wise and knowing decision.  They went against God's commandments, but that gave them a chance to be tested in Mortality and go through married life and having and raising children together.  The Forbidden Fruit was an actual fruit.  But by taking it they were no longer like little children and were able to go on and become parents.   Consummating their marriage would not have been a sin because God had married them already.   We think that God expected them to partake of the Forbidden Fruit.  By partaking of the fruit they were made mortal and went on to be the great parents of the Human Race. 

Below is an older drawing of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  I have been working on my skills at drawing people and I think I am getting better.  Remember that newer drawings are at the top of the printables lists.   Older drawings are further up the lists.  Look for these drawings either in
....All Printables. . . or in . . . Religious...  Those are found by clicking on those buttons.  The buttons are up top.  The list of drawings in the Religious section include an Old Testament section. 

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Fairy named Laurentia

Fairy Laurentia with Box Elder Beetle

Laurentia is a very intelligent Fairy.  She grew up in a Fairy Village that was in and under a Box Elder Tree in Northern Idaho.  She had a Box Elder Beetle as a pet when she was a little girl Fairy and so she has a certain affinity with the Box Elder Beetles.  .  .  AKA Box Elder Bugs.  These little bugs are black with red-orange markings.  

Laurentia was a caretaker of the Forest, but she also had an interest in rocks.   So she went to mortal college and studied Environmental Geology.  She had already studied Ecology in the worldwide Fairy Education system.She met a mortal young man who was studying Geoscience and Biology.  They hit it off right away.  

I am writing their story right now. . . but it is not ready yet.  

This new drawing is available to print by clicking on the top buttons labeled      All Printables       and     Fantasy Myths and Circus.  

Dinosaurio Nuevo con Espinas en Sudamerica

Bajadasaurus pronuspinax

Se ha anunciado una nueva especie de dinosaurio saurópodo de Argentina. Tenía 13 metros de largo y vivía en lo que hoy es la Patagonia. Tenía largas espinas espaciadas hacia adelante en su cuello. Estos fueron probablemente para la defensa.  El dinosaurio se llama:  Bajadasaurus pronuspinax.   Vivio durante el Periodo Jurasico.   

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El bajadasaurus tenía espinas orientadas hacia el frente que probablemente estaban cubiertas de queratina. Habrían sido una poderosa defensa.  Un otro dinosaurio que se parece Bajadasaurus vivio in Patagonia 15,000,000 mas tarde en la historia del mundo.

Todos los dibujos imprimibles se encuentran haciendo clic en los botones en la parte superior de la página. Haga clic en el botón Paleontología (Paleontology) o en el botón Todos los imprimibles (All Printables).  Dibujos nuevos están abajo en las listas.  

New Spiked Dinosaur

Bajadasaurus pronuspinax

(This is a new drawing so its found at bottom of printables lists via buttons up top.)

Bajadasaurus prospinax is a relatively newly discovered dinosaur from South America.  It was found in Northern Patagonia in Argentina.  Patagonia is where the biggest Sauropod dinosaurs were found.  But Bajadasaurus was from the much earlier Jurassic time period, not the Cretaceous time period of Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan.  Another spiny sauropod called Amargosaurus was also found years before.  It was from 15 million years after Bajadsaurus.   The big difference between these two armored Sauropods is Amargosaurus had spines facing back and the new dinosaur, Bajadasaurus, had spines facing forward.  

There is much speculation on the use of these spines.  Were they used for sexual display?  Were they used defense.  To me they would be for both.  The spines on the neck would have interfered with a predator trying to snap their neck with a powerful bite.  But some paleontologists think that the spines were too thin to be a good defense.  

On the other hand, the spines faced forward and we don't know if they had a hard sheath of keratin with menacing sharp points. If they did, then the spines would be a formidable defense against Theropod predators.  In fact those spines, with the keratin sheath, would have been well over a meter long.  

As far as size, the Bajadasaurus is estimated to have been up to 43 feet or 13 meters long.  This is big, but way smaller than the gigantic Patagotitan and Argentinosaurus that lived in Patagonia millions of years later.  

Amargosaurus vs Ceratosaurus

(Note:  Some reconstructions put the spines ONLY on the neck.)

(All of these drawings, except the first one on today's post, are older drawings so they 

are found in the lists... but not at the bottom of the lists.   The lists 

are found by clicking on the buttons at the top of the page.)

Argentinosaurus and Argentinadraco

Argentinosaurus at Nesting Site

Patagotitan mayorum the Biggest Dinosaur

Patagotitan

Белые медведи

Polar Bear Mother and Cubs

Этой матери и детенышам белого медведя угрожает глобальное потепление в Арктике. Когда морской лед тает, они должны съесть водоросль, и это не очень питательно.  

Белые медведи едят водоросли только когда они голодают, потому что не хватает морского льда для охоты на тюленей.

Мы с женой недавно закончили курс Coursera под названием «Горы 101». На одном уроке они проанализировали воздух, попавший в ледяные ядра за последние 800 000 лет. Данные показали, что уровни CO2 или двуокиси углерода никогда не были выше, чем сейчас. CO2 является парниковым газом, который заставляет солнечное тепло задерживаться в атмосфере.

To my Russian readers:  I hope this translation is OK.  I just got the translation off of Google.  I only know a little bit of Russian.   But I am aware that there are quite a few Russian readers of this blog.  

Для моих русских читателей: я надеюсь, что этот перевод в порядке. Я только что получил перевод от Google. Я знаю только немного по-русски. Но я знаю, что есть довольно много русских читателей этого блога

Oso Polar

Polar Bear Mother and Cubs

Oso Polar Madre y Cacharros

El Oso Polar es el predator mas grande en el mundo.  Un macho adulto purede pesar 2,100 libras.  Este es 997 kg.  En el dibujo la madre es caminando a quelpo.  Cuando no hay bastante focas el Oso Polar de ves en cuando comer quelpo.  .   .  pero solo cueando se murere de hambre.   De hecho, el derretimiento del hielo marino está amenazando la capacidad de los osos polares para cazar focas.

El calentamiento global está causando que el hielo se derrita temprano o que las temperaturas más cálidas estén reduciendo el heilo.


Mi esposa y yo recientemente terminamos una clase de Coursera llamada Mountains 101. En una lección, analizaron el aire atrapado en los núcleos de hielo durante los últimos 800,000 años. Los datos mostraron que los niveles de CO2 o dióxido de carbono nunca han sido más altos de lo que son ahora. El CO2 es un gas de efecto invernadero que hace que el calor solar quede atrapado en la atmósfera.

Los lideres del mundo tienen que avisar la gente que hay problema muy serio.

Polar Bears

Polar Bear Mother and Cubs

Polar Bears are the largest land predator on our planet.  The adult boar Polar bear can grow to be over 2,200 lbs or 997 kg. They are predators of seals in particular.  In this drawing the mother Polar Bear is approaching some seaweed or kelp that has washed up on the shore.  Polar bears will sometimes eat kelp if they are starving.  Current climate change is melting the sea ice early or / and reducing the sea ice and that is threatening the Polar Bears.  This is because the Polar Bears hunt seals FROM the sea ice.

My wife and I recently finished a Coursera Class called Mountains 101.  In one lesson they analyzed air trapped in ice cores over the last 800,000 years.  The data showed that CO2 or Carbon Dioxide levels have never been higher than they are right now.  CO2 is a greenhouse gas that causes solar heat to be trapped in the atmosphere.

Leaders and we individuals need to be aware of this serious threat.  Sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, and in my opinion we are not doing enough to curb this threat.  

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