BANGKOK, May 28 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Climate change, especially the El Niño phenomenon, is bound to have an adverse impact on the Thai economy, predicted a climate specialist.
In a Facebook post, Kasetsart University’s professor Witsanu Attavanich said the El Niño phenomenon in 1982-83 and 1997-1998 had brought people’s income down by 5-7.5% in Thailand.
Their annual income will drop further between 2020-2099 if appropriate steps are not taken to deal with climate change like setting up water management and storage systems during the wet season.
The El Niño phenomenon is expected to raise global temperatures by 1.6 degrees Celsius in August and 2ᵒC in October this year. He added that the global temperature has risen by 2ᵒC five times over the past 73 years, in 1965-66, 1972-73,…
