InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – 2023 was the hottest temperature year in the globe. Vice Chair Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who is also a professor at Meteorology, Climatology of National Innovation and Research Agency or Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), Prof. Edvin Aldrian, told that the increasing temperature in the globe reached 1,52 Celsius degree. It suppassed the limit decided on Paris Agreement that should be 1,5 Celsius degree. This meant worrying escalation in the climate change globally.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that the increasing temperature on earth in 2030 would be faster than its prior prediction. If it was projected to significantly escalate in 2052, the latest finding showed that the increasing temperature would be faster and even it would happen in 2042, ten years prior than the previous prediction. This reflected faster escalation and emphasized to get firm action to solve climate changes.
“The earth temperature has been more 1,5 Celsius degree for the past twelve months in 2023. This happened ten years faster than the previous prediction,” Prof. Edvin Aldrian said.
In the context, the 2023 El Nino impacts would be critical. Supari, Coordinator in Climate Variability Analysis, Geophysics, Climatology, Meteorology Agency (GCMA) said that El Nino in 2023 was categorized as moderate one with sea surface temperature anomaly in central Pacific reached 2.0 in December 2023.
There were impacts namely in August to October within low rain in some regions. Even in Nusa Tenggara Barat, there was no rain fall for 222 days.
“Southern Sumatera, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, Sulawesi, some of Maluku, and Papua had no rain fall for more than two months. This made food production not maximal in many regions,” Supari said.
The combination between the faster increasing temperature in the globe and extreme El Nino impacts, seriously hit food and environment security in many regions. By realizing these, it needs to immediately adapt and mitigate to minimize the bigger impacts in the future. (T2)
