Mostafa Kamal Majumder

Cyclone SIDR that hit Bangladesh with a hurricane core of winds could not be the worse to come right at the time of harvest of Aman paddy and the production of winter vegetables that had started becoming plentiful in supply and gradually cheaper. The cyclone followed two waves of big floods that hit the country in succession in August and September.
The three extreme climatic events coming within a gap of just three months and a half once again proved the vulnerability of Bangladesh to climate change induced by global warming that has beyond any iota of doubt been increasing the frequency and destructiveness of such natural disasters. [Read more]