{"id":855,"date":"2019-11-30T05:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=855"},"modified":"2019-11-30T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T18:41:34","slug":"why-singapore-is-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-of-the-world-part-3-in-everywhere-is-warming-twice-as-fast-as-everywhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Why Singapore is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world. Part 3 in everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else."},"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 &#8211; at 0.25 degrees Celsius per decade &#8211; 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 &#8211; 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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[832,847,833,846,831,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}