Impact of climate change on national development: the climate change phenomena and its current impacts in Papua New Guinea Bosley Boting University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea Their effects of Global Warming are felt right around the globe, and Papua New Guinea is no exception. It is projected that in addition to the production and emission of greenhouse gases, human related activities such as changes in the use of land surfaces have also affected the local, regional and global climatic conditions. The effects of climate change and global warming involves sea level rising; causing low lying atolls to sink, thus destroying infrastructures such as jetties and wharves. The other effects involves severe storms and increasing amount of rainfall, which leads to severe flooding and landslides. There will be drought, famine and hunger in other parts of the country, and the world. The changes in the amount of rainfall and the amount of carbon in the carbon cycle will also affect the ocean temperature and acidity. The health and survival of the people of this country will be at risk due to increase in emerging diseases and resistant to existing drugs that treat the existing diseases, and outbreaks of communicable diseases in places where it is endemic. The effect of global warming and climate change is a global phenomenon that needs every individual and governments to control and sustain the resources they have in their country in-order to minimize the effects of the phenomenon.
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