While much has been written about the hazards global warming poses on human health conditions, it is also noteworthy to explore its economic and social consequences.
Developing countries are at a greater risk from the diverse effects of global warming since the more developed ones have adequate means to deal with its damaging effects.
Take the recent case of excessive rains and flooding in the Philippine archipelago, for example.
Although the country averages 21 typhoons each year, the amount of rainfall exceeded historical records with the region receiving the equivalent of more than a month's average rainfall in less than a day.
That's 410 millimeters of rain in just 9 hours over an area that averages just 11 millimeters of rain in a day during its typhoon season.
The devastation is beyond proportion and the damages brought about by the recent disaster surpass even an expert's projections.
Rehabilitation will definitely cause not a mere dent to the nation's budget and its property and automobile insurance industries are projecting claims beyond their wildest expectations.
The appalling effects of global warming at this level were never in their risk projections and the insurance industry must now be facing its biggest headache since its conception.
Importers are looking to bring in triple its usual supply of rice in the coming year due to crop damage brought about by the disaster.
What an irony it is for a country that used to be one of the top grain producers in the region.
People have lost their homes and their sources of income, and rehabilitation has to extend beyond just the physical and economic aspects.
Social and psychological remedies also have to be implemented to deal with the trauma brought about by an event that was supposedly just for biblical times.
Humanity has to look seriously into the ill effects of global warming, lest we relive the plagues and afflictions we only used to read about in historical accounts.