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Makassar, Banjarmasin, Batam experience most ‘climate shifts’: Report
The report noted areas that experienced high levels of climate shifts tended to be locations close to the equator and the coasts.
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Underwater: Floodwater reaching around three meters inundate houses at the Antang residence compound in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in this file photo. (JP/Andi Hajramurni)
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new study has found that some cities in Indonesia are among the places that “climate shifts” have occurred the most, in that climate change has strongly influenced daily temperature and weather phenomena.
The nonprofit-news organization Climate Central recently launched the Global Climate Shift Index (CSI) that tried to quantify the local influence of climate change on daily temperatures around the world.
Climate Central director of climate science Andrew Pershing said that the index was created by analyzing the frequency of different temperatures in today’s climate, taking into account the effects from industrialization and land-use changes.
“Our Climate Shift Index measures how climate change boosted the odds of encountering a particular day’s temperature,” Pershing said in an email to The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
The first global CSI analysis was conducted from Oct, 1, 2021 to Sept. 30 on more than 1,000 cities across the world. The results of the analysis were published in the report titled “365 Days on a Warming Planet” which found that 96 percent of the world population or about 7.6 billion people experienced daily temperatures that were made warmer by climate change.
However, not all regions experienced climate change impacts the same way as they have different Climate Shift Index scores, measured on a range of -5 to +5. Higher index scores meant that the observed temperatures had become more common as a result of climate change while lower and even negative scores meant that climate change had made the observed temperatures less likely.
The report found that the Malay Archipelago -- which includes Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Papua New Guinea --, north and central-west Brazil, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa and Mexico experienced the strongest impacts of climate change to their local temperatures.
