The consequences of climate change in Bangladesh

Climate change is the most unpredictable threat to our planet. It is the most pressing issue at the moment over the world. The climate of the earth has changed over the last century. Climate change  is affecting many of the communities and their livelihood through rapid changes in the temperature and rainfall patterns. Bangladesh is recognized worldwide as one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of global warming and climate change. Due to geographic location especially in monsoon, the country is highly vulnerable to natural disasters. Due to this problem, many people lost their land, house, and assets. They become homeless. Bangladesh experiences different types of Natural Disasters almost every year because of the Global Warming as well as Climate Change impacts. The following impacts of climate changes have already been observed in Bangladesh: Summers are becoming, hotter, monsoon irregular, untimely rainfall, heavy rainfall over short period causing water logging and landslides, very little rainfall in dry period, increased river flow and inundation during monsoon, increased frequency, intensity and recurrence of floods, crop damage due to flash- floods and monsoon floods, crop failure due to drought, prolonged cold spell, salinity intrusion along the coast leading to scarcity of potable water and redundancy of prevailing crop practices, coastal erosion, riverbank erosion, deaths due to extreme heat and extreme cold, increasing mortality, morbidity, prevalence and outbreak of cholera and diarrhea, etc. Governments should develop national action plans on climate change adaptation and to allocate fixed proportion of national budgets to check on the effects of climate.