Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Indonesia’s Fires Are Driving Climate, Public Health Crises

Air pollution and smoke from fires in Indonesia on Monday, October 26. (Credit: Earth Wind Map) Click to Enlarge.
Indonesia is in the grips of a double-headed climate and public health crisis as fires rage across the country.  On Monday, the fires reached such a fever pitch that Indonesian Prime Minister Joko Widodo cut a trip to the U.S. short to return home and deal with the inferno that’s turning air toxic and putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than the U.S. on a daily basis.

 Nearly 116,000 fires have been documented and air quality in Indonesia and its neighboring countries has suffered.  The fires are a yearly occurrence, but this year is already the second-most prolific burn year on record and dry conditions driven by this year’s strong El Niño mean it still has a shot at the top spot.

 “We are definitely looking at an extended fires season this year, perhaps rivaling 1997, with our current forecasts continuing the strong tilt toward dry (conditions),” Andrew Robertson, a climate scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), said.

 Robertson and others at IRI have developed fire forecasting tools for the Indonesian government to pinpoint outbreaks and plan a season ahead.  The longer the fires burn, the harder they are to put out (and they could smolder through the rainy season).

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