AGW: An Innocent Question About Trees Shines Light on the Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

 Early in life, I began wondering that since very little of a tree is left behind as solid residue when it’s burned, how is it that the bulk of a tree’s mass is vaporized? 

In that question lies an answer:

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_trees_get_their_mass_from

To begin with, half of the mass of wood is carbon that, when burned, combines with atmospheric oxygen and is released as carbon dioxide (CO2): a unit of carbon combines with two of oxygen. Since the mass of oxygen weighs more than three times as much as carbon, burning just two pounds of wood yields over eight pounds of CO2.
[1 pound carbon + 3.6 pounds oxygen + 3.6 pounds oxygen = 8.2 pounds of carbon dioxide]

Note: Trees, as they grow, re-absorb carbon dioxide from the air; but, with increasing deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, et al, CO2 levels in the biosphere are increasing (especially when you factor in the burning of stupendous amounts of previously sequestered carbon in the form of fossil fuels).

This strengthens the greenhouse effect and results in a steadily warming planet. And with each and every year being warmer than the years before, only the blissfully ignorant and the hopelessly naive can fail to see what the future holds.

Search:
‘carbon cycle global warming’

Resource:
“Greenhouse Effect” Physics- 

62 part series. 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2gX-ftPVXUNpoyWX5PeZQy5CNlPh0r3

Search:
‘samslair blogspot AGW’

Internationally Renowned Melody, “A Million Red Roses” (14 videos):

The melody for “A Million Roses” with varying lyrics has been an international favorite for forty years. Its haunting melody lends itself well to the subject of unconditional love.

‘Ko Woo-rim’ sings “One Million Roses” from the overwhelmingly superlative Korean drama ‘My Mister’ (with lyrics):

https://youtu.be/qE3qMYoJtzE

English lyrics:

https://images.app.goo.gl/CArqBEkNSmBHgLiJ6

Kim Donguk, “One Million Roses”
(with English script):
https://youtu.be/uCaa74bptt8

In this latest version of the song, the forlorn one has incarnated on Earth from the love star and can only return home when he has engendered enough love to cause a million roses of love to bloom. This means loving unconditionally without tainting the heart with hatred. It means fully accepting the love of others as well. And it means loving those that have either moved on or passed on. 

[Key refrain that is repeated:

“Without any heart of hatred,

When you can love unconditionally,

One million flowers will bloom,

Then I can return to my beautiful star.”]

"The Love from Whence You Proceed — ...The secret love star is constantly pouring throughout the whole atmosphere of Earth, and into the structure of Earth itself, great Rivers of Life — the Love, the Life, the Substance, the Harmony, the Supply, the Miracles, and the Blessings, and which are the Outpouring from the secret love star...”

To listen to the music without vocalization:

https://youtu.be/_4cLa3iP6f4

“Million Roses” as performed in Korean drama, ‘I Am Legend’ (with similar lyrics):

https://youtu.be/zUPgEMyMFIY

“Yoon Ha” sings “One Million Roses”:

https://youtu.be/hw7BFS0LU_s

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“A Million Roses” with original lyrics from forty years ago:

https://youtu.be/ZS64OA5QxsI

The original version of the song says —

“There lived an artist alone who sold his paintings and home

And left his palettes behind for this one purpose alone. 

This famous actress he loved only red flowers preferred, 

So for his money he bought one million roses for her. 

Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, she could turn, 

Everything in the square down below blooming red. 

Those in love, those in love, those in love, she would learn, 

Gladly leave things behind for a glance instead.

Early next day she did rise hardly believing her eyes -- 

One million roses below under the blue morning skies.

She thought that gift must have come from some unknown tycoon 

Leaving the artist alone standing there all afternoon.

Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, she could turn, 

Everything in the square down below blooming red. 

Those in love, those in love, those in love, she would learn, 

Gladly leave things behind for a glance instead.

Only a minute she spared for his enormous bouquet. 

After a late show that night she left for good on a train.

There stayed the artist alone, poor and completely forlorn, 

But he would never regret the city with roses adorned. 

Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere, she could turn, 

Everything in the square down below blooming red. 

Those in love, those in love, those in love, she would learn, 

Gladly leave things behind for a glance instead.”

“Million Scarlet Roses” (English lyrics) Alla Pugacheva:

https://youtu.be/ZVAT1g6jkls

“A Million Roses” by Korean traditional music group (triplet sisters) ‘Infinity of Sound’:

https://youtu.be/C9vQWzN36tM

Lyrics in English:

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/million-alyh-roses-million-alykh-roz-million-scarlet-roses.html

“Farangis” sings ‘Goule Rose’:

https://youtu.be/Xs_Blkn_zfs

Magyar Rózsa sings “A Million Roses”:

https://youtu.be/u4ZPsfTJ7rU

Ququş; Melyon qole roz (qızıl gül):

https://youtu.be/TMrdLD4NKJA

“One Million Roses” (original Russian version):

https://youtu.be/XgXFi_AAafQ

Ichigo Tanuki sings “Million Scarlet Roses”:

https://youtu.be/5dwCuhYOQH0

‘Dominique Muasen’ turns “A Million Roses” of Raymond Pauls into the most classic French chanson (find French lyrics in video’s description).

Is a fun one to watch and listen to:

https://youtu.be/Ndrrong8o-c

“Million Scarlet Roses” — 

Igor Presnyakov renders melody via guitar only:

https://youtu.be/l3lScib4DK4

Instrumental / Francis Goya

https://youtu.be/ksjG4FptZIg

Watch freestyle dancing:

https://youtu.be/_ObKCpYsDlw

Note: There are many more videos if you search “A Million Roses” or “A Million Scarlet Red Roses”. The above, however, is a fairly good sampling.

Additionally:

https://youtu.be/rCx8NjASwOs

Rediscovering Will Rogers

 “Between 1915 and 1935, ‘Cowboy Philosopher’ Will Rogers, who brightened the dark days of the Great Depression with words of compassion and common sense, became a Broadway star, a top male movie box office star, the highest paid movie star, the most popular radio star, the most frequently requested public speaker and the most widely read daily newspaper columnist in the United States.

In today’s segmented media world with countless options available in print, through broadcasts, or on the internet, many Americans choose what they like and become deaf to performers or speakers who do not fall within their narrow range of interest. It’s CNN or Fox News, Stephen Colbert or Sean Hannity, Oprah Winfrey or Meghan McCain. No one person can claim the kind of broad audience that Rogers enjoyed....”

“Satirist and scholar H.L. Mencken called him “the most dangerous man alive” because of his expansive influence on the American population. Author Damon Runyan described him as “America’s most complete human document.” Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr praised Rogers’s search for more truth “that more pretentious teachers leave untouched......”

“Will Rogers: One of a Kind”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/will-rogers-was-one-kind-180975472/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/will-rogers-about-will-rogers/692/

Quips:
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.”
https://wiredpen.com/2015/01/30/will-rogers-trickle-economics/

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/249393

“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/249406

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising, then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
https://www.successories.com/iquote/author/444/will-rogers-quotes/1

More Quotes:
https://www.successories.com/iquote/author/444/will-rogers-quotes/1

About Life of Will Rogers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers

About Will Roger by his son (in Guideposts):
https://www.guideposts.org/friends-and-family/family/guideposts-classics-will-rogers-jr-on-his-fathers-life-lessons

The Historical King Arthur

“The historical King Arthur is said to have lived about 500 A.D., and is thought to have been a leader of the Britons in their battles against the invading Anglo-Saxon kings. Malory and Tennyson both record that he fought and defeated twelve kings. Arthur was so wise a leader and performed so many deeds of valor that he became a hero to his countrymen for all time.
Some historical evidence of Arthur’s life comes from Glastonbury Abbey. Some of the priests who served there during the sixth century preserved a record of their receipt of the disinterred bodies of both King Arthur and his queen, Guinevere. The bodies of the royal couple were buried beneath the high altar in the church.
According to an account by Giraldus Cambrensis, who was present when the grave was opened at the command of Henry II about the year 1150, the grave contained the bones and sword of King Arthur. It also contained a leaden cross which contained the following inscription: Here lies buried the famous King Arthur, in the island of Avalon.”
http://encyclopedia.summitlighthouse.org/index.php/King_Arthur

“He drove the Saxon invaders from Britain, united the kingdom and established the order of the Knights of the Round Table, whose code of chivalry bound them to defend the helpless from the wicked and evildoers and to uphold the ideals of purity, truth, mercy, faithfulness and generosity.”

[Note that there was almost certainly an actual Arthur who inspired the legend...
https://www.ancient.eu/article/1068/the-historical-king-arthur/]

Related: God Qualities

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=God+Qualities&max-results=20&by-date=false&m=1