El nino threat to Indonesia...................

Its being my 3rd year in jakarata but for the first time i have heard about the word elnino and La-lina are getting worst for indonesia by creating situation like forest fire,drought condition.which is effecting the country directly or indirectly.

Indonesia, and Southeast Asia more broadly, is one of the areas most directly impacted by El Niño. The eastward shift in the Walker Circulation means the normal area of rising air and rainy weather is shifted eastward as well, leaving the Indonesian area high and dry during much of the year. This can lead to drought that can cause water shortages and crop and livestock losses from dried up fields. Those losses then lead to food shortages and rising prices, and can also increase the odds of large wildfires.

This year has seen major drought grip Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and much of the U.S. Pacific Island territories. In Indonesia there were major delays in the planting of the rice crop, leading to concerns over food shortages. And when farmers set their usual fires to clear brush for planting, the dry conditions caused many to burn out of control, causing one of the biggest burn years on record and leading to a pall of smoke over the region. In Vietnam, drought has led to salinization issues in the Mekong Delta region, home to some 20 million people and a major rice growing area.

Drought has caused the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia to declare states of emergency, with some islands enacting water rationing and having to have water shipped in.The slowdown in global warming is likely to end within two years as the Earth’s climate system undergoes a radical shift that could push temperatures to record highs this year and next, according to the Met Office.

The findings will demolish claims by climate sceptics that the slowdown in the rate of global warming over the past 17 years proves that scientists’ concerns are exaggerated.And it will put further pressure on world leaders to agree strong action to curb carbon emissions at a key UN climate change summit in Paris in December – regarded as crucial if global warming is to be limited to 2C, beyond which the consequences become increasingly devastating.The research predicts the world has entered what could be one of the strongest El Niño events in the past century – a change to the climate system that increases the world’s temperature by warming the Pacific Ocean and which can be hugely damaging, causing droughts and extreme weather all over the world.

It forecasts that this El Niño event could be at least as strong as in 1997-98, which caused deadly mudslides in South America, a crippling drought in South-east Asia and extreme weather in many other parts of the world.(source:http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/2015-will-be-the-hottest-year-on-record-but-experts-predict-2016-will-be-even-warmer-10499220.html)