Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that Indonesia is included in countries that are vulnerable to food security problems. There are several factors that trigger this, one of which is a lack of water. Apart from that, it is also due to the increase in earth’s surface temperature.

Head of BMKG Dwikorita Karnawati said that 2023 will be the record for the hottest maximum temperature which has repeatedly broken records. And, the temperature in July 2023 will be the hottest July compared to the previous July. This was conveyed during a working meeting with Commission V of the DPR, last month.

He explained that starting in the 1850s there was an increase in global temperatures which was triggered by massive industrial growth.

“There will be an increase in temperature until 2023 of approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius compared to the period before the industrial revolution. And the last 8 years have been the hottest on record in history,” said Dwikorita in a broadcast on the DPR Commission V YouTube account, quoted on Saturday (11 /11/2023).

“The increase in temperature is indeed global, although in Indonesia it is not as big as in others. This is because the sea area is much larger than the land area, so it acts as a cooler,” he added.

As a result, said Dwikorita, the increase in earth’s temperature occurred global water hotspots or water shortages that occur globally. This condition is predicted to last for some time to come.

“As a result of this water shortage, projected by the world meteorological organization, including in Indonesia, the color is orange, there is a condition of quite high vulnerability to food security,” said Dwikorita.

Indicators of food security pressure, he continued, show that by the middle of the century, around the 2050s, most areas on earth will be orange to dark orange, even black.

“It is predicted that in the 2050s there will be food shortages due to water shortages, in orange, brown, red and dark areas. Indonesia is in the middle (orange) region category,” said Dwikorita.

“And we will have difficulty importing because food-producing countries will experience even more severe drought,” he said.

Dwikorita explained that the results of BMKG monitoring showed that the cause of climate change was marked by a spike in the earth’s temperature as indicated by the CO2 concentration measured at GAW Kototabang. The CO2 concentration had been monitored since 2004, which was increasingly increasing until 2023.

From around 370 ppm Co2 concentration, this year it is around 415 ppm.

“In fact, Kototabang hill is in the middle of the forest, not in Jakarta, there is no pollution. So you can imagine, even in the middle of the forest, CO2 concentrations in the city have jumped. This has resulted in a blanket of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” he explained

Furthermore, he explained, the greenhouse gas envelope prevents the release of solar radiation back into space. For decades, this radiation does not return to space because CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

As a result, a number of effects are predicted to hit the earth, including Indonesia.

“That is the condition. As a result, the Jayawijaya peak ice is predicted to disappear by 2025. And, extreme weather is occurring more frequently,” he said.

For this reason, BMKG carries out climate change adaptation training, increases climate literacy for the community, and expands the implementation of energy transformation from fossil to non-fossil energy.

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(Intan R.D/hsy)