National Climate Change Action Plan 2011-2028

The global and local climate is changing. Current
climate trends show that the Philippines, like the rest
of the world, has exhibited increasing temperatures,
with observed mean temperature increase of 0.64 °C
or an average of 0.01 °C per year-increase from 1951-
2010. In the last 59 years, maximum (daytime) and
minimum (nighttime) temperatures are also seen to
have increased by 0.36 °C and 0.1 °C, respectively.
Moreover, the analysis on tropical cyclone passage over
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao using a 30-year running
mean shows that there has been a slight increase in the
number of cyclones in the Visayas during the 1971-2000
period as compared with the 1951 to 1980 and 1960-
1990 periods (PAGASA 2011).

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