How will climate change affect Singapore?

Singapore is not insulated from the impact of climate change. From 1972 to 2014, the annual mean temperature has increased from 26.6°C to 27.7°C. The mean sea level in the Straits of Singapore has also increased at the rate of 1.2mm to 1.7mm per year in the period 1975 to 2009. read more

What Singapore is (or will) experiencing due to climate change is generally seen as mild as compared to the storms, earthquakes and tsunamis that affect other countries around us. Our government does a good job in foreseeing future issues and tackling them in advance so the people become complacent. read more

A better projection of the future changes in the tropical west-central Pacific SST will provide us with better projections of the future climate in Singapore as well as that in the polar regions which will, in turn, affect Singapore in several ways. read more