{"id":4674,"date":"2023-01-04T02:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2023-01-04T02:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:40:18","slug":"why-singapore-is-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-of-the-world-part-3-in-the-rest-of-the-world-is-warming-up-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-of-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4674","title":{"rendered":"Why Singapore is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world. Part 3 in The Rest Of The World Is Warming Up Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/cnainsider\/singapore-hot-weather-urban-heat-effect-temperature-humidity-11115384\">https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/cnainsider\/singapore-hot-weather-urban-heat-effect-temperature-humidity-11115384<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat, combined with the island\u2019s high humidity, could be life-threatening, the programme Why It Matters discovers.<br \/>\nSINGAPORE: The recent spells of hot weather that Singaporeans have been experiencing may not be just temporary heatwaves.<\/p>\n<p>The island is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world \u2013 at 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade \u2013 according to the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS). It is almost 1 deg C hotter today than in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>What is even grimmer news \u2013 Singapore\u2019s maximum daily temperatures could reach 35 to 37 deg C by year 2100, if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, warned Dr Muhammad Eeqmal Hassim, senior research scientist with the MSS Centre for Climate Research Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries already experience hotter temperatures than this \u2013 but the reason this spells trouble for Singapore, is that humidity is high here all year round.<\/p>\n<p>This could lead to potentially deadly situations, as the programme Why It Matters found out. (Watch the episode here)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen temperature and humidity get high enough, our bodies struggle to cope,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe get higher heat stress levels. It can actually be quite lethal for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/cnainsider\/singapore-hot-weather-urban-heat-effect-temperature-humidity-11115384 Extreme heat, combined with the island\u2019s high humidity, could be life-threatening, the programme Why It Matters discovers. SINGAPORE: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[832,847,833,846,831,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}