Just for fun: Children enjoy a swim in the seawater inundating their housing complex in Muara Baru, North Jakarta. A rise in the sea level caused the flood Friday.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Residents clueless about `glass house effect'
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Mon, 11/02/2009 2:02 PM City
While world leaders are negotiating hard to reach a consensus at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, some residents were still unaware of global warming issues.
"I do not understand the definition of global warming," said Jeane, a resident of Tanjung Duren subdistrict, West Jakarta.
Jeane thought global warming was a type of natural disaster that would increase the temperature of the Earth.
"Government officials often say we must prevent this from happening, but how? I have no idea," Jeane said.
Suradi, a civil servant, started off well by explaining that global warming was caused by air pollution and a lack of trees.
But then came his fallacy; "A glass building like that can also cause global warming," he said, pointing to a skyscraper.
Suradi had misunderstood the concept behind the greenhouse effect, translated as efek rumah kaca (glass house effect) in Indonesian.
"It seems the use of glass in buildings can cause global warming," he said.
Global warming is an increase in global temperatures, which is caused by emissions into the atmosphere (of water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane etc) that effectively trap heat radiated from the earth, preventing it from cooling.
Since air pollution and gas emissions have increased, average temperatures have also increased - a change scientists predict will accelerate in coming years.
Jeane and Suradi were among visitors at an environmentally friendly event held by Mal Ciputra in West Jakarta on Saturday.
At the event, dozens of residents were given cleaning tools and trees. The residents later cleaned their neighborhoods and planted the trees.
Tanjung Duren subdistrict chief Syamsudin Noor said he had often explained the definition and the effects of global warming to residents.
"At every community meeting, I explain to them they need to plant more trees and save energy to prevent global warming.
"It is possible that they have misunderstood my explanations. Many do not read much, and may make the wrong conclusions," he said.
Scientific reports said predict global warming will result in an 80-centimeter rise in sea levels, causing flooding in coastal areas including Jakarta.
Despite the administration's environmental campaigns, many environmentalists say it is not doing enough to improve the quality of life in the city and helping address global warming.
Daily activities of Jakartans using massive quantities of electricity and fuel fossils, for example, are counterproductive to such campaigns, contributing massive amounts of greenhouse gases - the primary cause of global warming. (mrs)
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"Residence Clueless About 'glass house effect'" (2009) The Jakarta Post, November 2
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Mon, 11/02/2009 2:02 PM City
While world leaders are negotiating hard to reach a consensus at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, some residents were still unaware of global warming issues.
"I do not understand the definition of global warming," said Jeane, a resident of Tanjung Duren subdistrict, West Jakarta.
Jeane thought global warming was a type of natural disaster that would increase the temperature of the Earth.
"Government officials often say we must prevent this from happening, but how? I have no idea," Jeane said.
Suradi, a civil servant, started off well by explaining that global warming was caused by air pollution and a lack of trees.
But then came his fallacy; "A glass building like that can also cause global warming," he said, pointing to a skyscraper.
Suradi had misunderstood the concept behind the greenhouse effect, translated as efek rumah kaca (glass house effect) in Indonesian.
"It seems the use of glass in buildings can cause global warming," he said.
Global warming is an increase in global temperatures, which is caused by emissions into the atmosphere (of water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane etc) that effectively trap heat radiated from the earth, preventing it from cooling.
Since air pollution and gas emissions have increased, average temperatures have also increased - a change scientists predict will accelerate in coming years.
Jeane and Suradi were among visitors at an environmentally friendly event held by Mal Ciputra in West Jakarta on Saturday.
At the event, dozens of residents were given cleaning tools and trees. The residents later cleaned their neighborhoods and planted the trees.
Tanjung Duren subdistrict chief Syamsudin Noor said he had often explained the definition and the effects of global warming to residents.
"At every community meeting, I explain to them they need to plant more trees and save energy to prevent global warming.
"It is possible that they have misunderstood my explanations. Many do not read much, and may make the wrong conclusions," he said.
Scientific reports said predict global warming will result in an 80-centimeter rise in sea levels, causing flooding in coastal areas including Jakarta.
Despite the administration's environmental campaigns, many environmentalists say it is not doing enough to improve the quality of life in the city and helping address global warming.
Daily activities of Jakartans using massive quantities of electricity and fuel fossils, for example, are counterproductive to such campaigns, contributing massive amounts of greenhouse gases - the primary cause of global warming. (mrs)
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"Residence Clueless About 'glass house effect'" (2009) The Jakarta Post, November 2
Protected Animal's Trade Still Rife Despite Frequent Raids
Wahyoe Boediwardhana , THE JAKARTA POST , MALANG, EAST JAVA Mon, 10/26/2009 1:43
East Java has become the province with the highest rate of protected animals trading activity. Indonesian Pro Fauna found 183 animals from 25 species of protected animals sold at bird market. Not only endangered birds, they also sold primates, mammals and raptors there. Moreover, Central Java such as Surakarta, Ambarawa and Semarang, have the same rank of illegal trading of the protective animals. All of this happened since the law enforcement is poor, even though Indonesia was famous for its rich fauna. About 515 species of mammals, 600 species of reptiles
, and 15 percent of all insect species in the world, also three quarters of all fish species can be found in Indonesia. Based on regulation No.5/1990 on the conservation of natural resources and its ecosystem, protected animal traders could be jailed for five years and fined up Rp 100,000,000.
By Dewi 'N' Lewis
Stray Sumatran Tigger Frightens Villagers
Sumatran tiger have been found around Jambon Papeun village in Meukek districk, South Aceh near the regency. Over the last two weeks, the tiger had struck 5 goats and 39 chickens; even in 2007, tigers had ever put to death 5 villagers.
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/24/stray-sumatran-tiger-frightens-villagers.html
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Sat, 10/24/2009 6:31 PM
By Dewi And Lewis &b
Friday, November 6, 2009
The sea level rise in Indonesia's is up by 1 meter by 2010. Our ocean currents will eventually change as well. These changes, according to a recent Center for a New American Security report, will affect surface and undersea navigation, and possibly affect ship operation and maintenance, engines and other equipment.
On the surface, severe weather events will certainly affect operations, training and maintenance. The possible damage to our ports from high wind and waves. Extreme weather will also take a damagel on our sailors' physical and mental strength, and high heat may strain deck crews on our future landing platform docks.
Underwater acoustical properties will be influenced as well, and by implication, so will the use of sonar-based detection - a key tool in any naval operation, especially in anti-submarine warfare, which we intend to develop.
Aside from these operational impacts, defense energy efficiency will also be a critical issue in the coming years as energy prices.This may further strain our defense budget and may exacerbate tradeoffs in funding for military operations, training, assistance and maintenance, especially when extreme environmental conditions increases.
On the surface, severe weather events will certainly affect operations, training and maintenance. The possible damage to our ports from high wind and waves. Extreme weather will also take a damagel on our sailors' physical and mental strength, and high heat may strain deck crews on our future landing platform docks.
Underwater acoustical properties will be influenced as well, and by implication, so will the use of sonar-based detection - a key tool in any naval operation, especially in anti-submarine warfare, which we intend to develop.
Aside from these operational impacts, defense energy efficiency will also be a critical issue in the coming years as energy prices.This may further strain our defense budget and may exacerbate tradeoffs in funding for military operations, training, assistance and maintenance, especially when extreme environmental conditions increases.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Picture Facts about SLR
There is a big storm and flood in New Zealand, if the ocean level rise 1 meter, it will make a huge impact, because it's nearly flow to the land. This picture is taken in Northland, New Zealand.
This graph shown us the progress of the sea level rise from 1880 until 2000.
the picture (right) is the prediction of
Chicago in 2025
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