From Guest Blogger Alia: Bad Effects of Climate Change in the World

The repercussions about climate change are pretty diverse and prove out to be very much damaging to millions of people dwelling at different parts of this planet especially to the people based in developing nations. Most of the climate changes taking place bring in a number of negative economic consequences to these nations and the people residing there. For instance, a wide range of weather events including the hurricane, avalanches and droughts could be counted in the list of climate change consequences, which have led to billions of dollars in economic damage to the affected nations. The below is the list of the bad effects of climate change found inside the world. Let’s check them out:

Stronger and more recurrent weather events

The most obvious ill effects of climate change include a much stronger events occurring on a frequent basis. A number of weather events including floods, precipitation, waves, hurricanes, droughts, windstorms and avalanches seem to be increasing in the coming years owing to the climate change. If you look at the recent events, the extreme weather conditions seem to have worsened since past few years. In the 2003, the extreme and abnormal heat waves have killed around 35,000 people in Europe alone. In the year 2005, more than 1300 people were killed due to the Hurricane Katrina in United States giving a total loss of 135 billon dollars. As per the experts, the increase in the intensity of hurricane is only due to the climate change taking place since 1975. According to a report published in Nature Journal in 2005, the intensity of hurricane has increased all these years along with changing the ocean warming trends in the past few decades and will continue the same. Also, the issue of extreme weather also seems to have erupted due to the climate change.

Rise of sea levels

Another implication of climate change is the rise of sea levels, which seems to have accelerated since past few years owing to the land based ice melting and because of the thermal expansions of oceans. As per the eight arctic nations based forum- ACIA (Arctic Climate Impact Assessment), since the past twenty years the rise of sea level is around 8 centimeters all across the globe and it also predicts around 10 -90 centimeters in the coming decades. With such projections, you would see threat of floods for more than ten million people dwelling across the coastal areas all across the globe. One of the biggest concerns is melting of Greenland Ice Sheet that has been melting since the late 70’s in a rapid manner as expected. The drastic change in climate will certainly going to have adverse effects on it’s melting, which can raise the sea levels up to 7 meters.

Water shortages and the food security threats

Currently more than one billion people all across the world are facing the issue of water scarcity. The climate change could aggravate this serious issue in different forms like prolonged droughts and spreading desertification, which will simply make the situation from bad to worse. The regions, which depend upon the glacial melt water during their dry season including the Himalaya-Hindu Kush region (spreading over India, China and other Asian countries), which is actually a home for more than 50% of population in the world is likely to be hit the most as the glaciers are seen receding while the dry season water sources are unable to refill. Moreover, these changes in climate could also bring in the global food security threat since the agricultural production is likely to be hit at the tropical and subtropical areas owing to excessive droughts and heat.

Disease and several other health implications

The climate change is more likely to expand the geographic distribution and thus bringing in a number of contagious diseases including, dengue, malaria, Lyme, cholera, and fever at places like Latin America, Africa and North America since the presence of warm weather simply allows these diseases especially at places, which were earlier too cold. As per WHO, the changes in climate seems to have hampered the 150,000 fatalities among the people living all across the world in the year 2000, while the latest figure seems to be double. The fatalities that result due to the climate change include diseases like the respiratory issues and cardiovascular mortality and the tainted transmission of infectious diseases along with the rise of malnutrition cases going up due to the crop failures.

Final word

Climate change has already started hampering the world and people living over this planet and is certainly going to do the same in the coming times. With the consistent changes taking place in climate, people and the planet both have now started encountering the above said implications of climate change, which will aggravate in the coming future.

About The Author: Alia is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to ReputationChangerWikiManagement.com