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.

Pl see and give your suggestions.

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.

Communication is power

Communication is power. Whoever can communicate effectively can wield power.  Most successful people are not really more knowledgeable. But they could communicate well. Obama or Osama are good communicators. And succeeded.  Remember Obama won first time only because he could communicate the hope to the people.  Just 2297 words in 17 minutes and 33 interruptions through applauses.. in his key note address in democratic national convention 2004, overnight he became favourite. Obama is placed on the some pedestal as of Rusevelt.  Mr.Green explained five secrets of good communication talking Obama as the model.   One can Google and get his booklet.

We heard information is power.  But mere info can not get u anything if you cannot communicate it effectively.

Maha kumbh

We visited Allahabad and had a Holy dip. Really amazing to see the set of humanity and the spirit of Indian people. There was a system working we there was an order in people walking to and to the Ganges, taking the dip, etc. There was no body regulating people anywhere. Still the was no confusion either around the place or on people's faces.  Hats off to the spirit of my country's common man.