The Pallbearer syndrome

People having this syndrome tend to think that tye department or office is running only because of them.  Most offices will have people suffering from this syndrome. There is no 'we' for such people. You go to any office and ask who is the most redundant and work-evading person there. Go to him and talk to him. He might give you the most authentic account of his contribution and importance in the department. 
We meet these people everywhere and everyday. The worst part is that while they feel doing the most of the work around also feel that others are idling around.  These people never realise that they are after all carrying only a 'dead body'.
If you are the boss, be objective and get to know who is doing what and how. Do not fall prey to these people's briefs.  If you are a colleague keep ignoring them. But in your interest keep record of what you have been doing which can be handy at times. If you are reporting to them may God help you to get a new boss.

Plant trees and save earth : Forests and Climate Change

Hi friends
I am doing Wold Bank MOOC course on Turn Down the heat: Why a 4 degree world should be avoided?

This page is created to display my final project for other course participants and evaluators.

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Sincerely,

Satyasai 

In the artifact given here, I tried to show that forest cover acts as umbrella to mother earth to protect from CO2.  Mother earth can happily smile once forests take care of the emissions and carbon sequestration.  Plant trees and save earth from climate change.

Forests have profound impact on climate change and climate change affects in turn forest cover.  However, annual deforestation is estimated to release CO2 in more qualtity than annual emissions from transport system.  Forests act as carbon sinks and help in absorbing CO2 in large quantities due to photosynthesis.  Also, forest cover gives shade that reduce soil temperature.  The continued existence of forests is important to prevent vicious cycle of rising temperatures –melting ice cap –release of GHG-which leads to temperature rise. 

As global warming proceeds the forest ecosystems have to move to more suitable locations as the existing locations become less suitable.  It is estimated that with increased global temperatures by 3 degree by 2100, the forest ecosystemes are likely to shift 500 km towards poles and 500 m to higher alitiudes.    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that suitable climate are projected to shift in future and many tree species will not be able to change their geographic distribution fast enough to keep up with such shifts.  Often due to limited capability for the dispersal of seeds of several tree species, the composition of the forest ecosytems is likely to change.

Trees or lack of them, hence, makes a difference to our mother earth. Increased forest cover, thus, helps reduce mitigate global warming effects by acting as carbon sinks and reducing CO2 emissions that would otherwise occur from degradation or deforestation.