Posted on January 2, 2008 in Latest News
Updated reports of 2007 on the future and expected effects of global warming on the biggest continent of the world, Asia shows many serious and perilous effects on it’s over all climatic changes, health and development. The reports urge every government as well as every individual to take rigorous steps to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases which can only reduce the harshness of global warming.
Here are the future expected effects of global warming on Asia:
- Floods, rock avalanches will virtually increase due to glacier melting in the Himalayas. This will create disruption in water resources within the next twenty to thirty years.
- Ganges, Mekong deltas and heavily populated coastal regions of Asia are at greater risk of flooding.
- Sea level rise will become a big challenge to Asia in compare to other nations of the world. Countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh which are flat lands, Island nations such as the Maldives, main cities of Japan that are on the coastal areas are highly susceptible to sea level rise.
- The poor nations in the Bay of Bengal are at greater risk of cyclones.
- Diarrhoeal diseases linked to floods and droughts will rise in East, South and Southeast Asia. The toxicity of cholera will aggravate in South Asia due to rise in coastal water temperature.
- Climatic changes will bring more wildfires and droughts to Southeast Asia.
- Climatic changes will greatly affect the sustainable growth of most developing Asian countries.
- Climatic changes will decrease availability of freshwater in South, Southeast, East and Central Asia due to rapid population growth and an increasing demand arising from higher standards of living. And it will affect more than a billion people by the 2050s.
- It is reported that crop yields in East and Southeast Asia can increase up to 20% while it can decrease up to 30% in South and Central Asia by mid-21st century. The two aspects of crop yielding, population growth and rapid urbanization will increase the risk of hunger especially in the developing countries of Asia.
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