Climate Change in Surabaya: A Growing Concern

Surabaya, a bustling metropolis in East Java, Indonesia, is increasingly grappling with the impacts of climate change. Rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall patterns, and sea level rise pose significant threats to the environment, economy, and public health of the city.

Climate change in Surabaya is primarily driven by global greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere and cause temperatures to rise. This warming has far-reaching consequences for the city. According to a source from a journal titled "Aerosols overtake greenhouse gases, causing a warmer climate and more weather extremes toward carbon neutrality" by Pinya Wang, Yang Yang, Lili Ren, and others (2023), human activities have caused the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to increase drastically since 1750, leading to a warming climate over the past few centuries. This has caused the rate of global warming to increase in recent decades, with the average global surface air temperature rising by 1.1C above pre-industrial levels.