More than 6,000 natural disasters are expected to occur in the last twenty years. While 252 million people worldwide affected by various types of natural disasters - not including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other disasters unrelated to climate.
However, a researcher Austria stated that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are part of the disasters caused by global warming. Increased earthquake activity currently five times greater than it was twenty years ago, because the Earth absorbs more heat energy from the sun than the inverted radiation back into space, and lead to imbalances. The earth is getting warmer and increases the activity of seismic motion, tectonic, and volcanic. When you look at this statement, then the impact of global warming on the increase in disasters and the death toll count greater.
Indonesia is an archipelago with a fourth-longest coastline in the world along 95 181 km, a confluence of three major tectonic plates: the Indo-Australian Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate and passed two lines or a series of volcanoes, namely: circum-Pacific and circum Mediterranean .
This condition is caused Indonesia to be vulnerable to natural disasters caused by global warming - climate change. In 2015, the estimated number of people living in vulnerable areas affected by natural disasters and global warming (climate change) in the world increased 54 percent to reach 375 million people per year. Economic level, poverty, lack of disaster measures the percentage of deaths caused in poor and developing countries is far greater than the developed countries.
Borneo, the island is spelled "relatively" safer than other islands in Indonesia because it does not pass through a series of active volcanoes and the active tectonic plates move, it can not be separated from the problem of disasters due to climate change. Floods, landslides, high waves, droughts, and forest fires have been a disaster to be ready to face the population living in Borneo. Followed by a long hot after heavy rainfall, causing flooding and vulnerable to landslides. High waves swept the settlements on the coast. And disasters that come more frequently with larger scale, it is also felt in the city of Balikpapan.
Forest fires are the most popular disaster facing Kalimantan. Biggest fire ever in East Kalimantan occurred in 1997/1998 after the great fire in 1982/1983 due to climate phenomenon El Nino, temperatures high temperatures caused by global warming. Global warming, climate change, high temperatures will be answered by the negligent behavior caused wildfires into risky thing to happen in Borneo.
Sungai Wain Protection Forest (HLSW) owned by the city of Balikpapan also caught fire, the effects of El Nino. The impact of forest fires can be felt directly in human activities, smog that impair vision, disrupting flight schedules to endanger the flight. Wildfires also cause us to lose a lot of natural resources, flora and fauna.
Global warming is real, things that affect our daily lives whether we realize or not realize it. We need to be concerned about the risks of global warming-climate change, we need to change our behavior for the better. We need to do energy efficiency, switching to renewable alternative energy use, planting vegetation, and stop the exploitation of natural resources excessively. Natural disasters due to global warming-climate change mitigation action is not only necessary, but also a change in attitude
