According to the Research Center for Environmental Changes at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan's average temperature has risen by 1.4 ° C over the last 100 years, more than twice the rise of 0.6 ° C in average temperatures worldwide. Taiwan's rate of warming has been triple the global average over the last 30 years.
中研院環境變遷研究中心指出，過去 100 年台灣年平均增溫攝氏 1.4 度，暖化速率是全球平均值 0.6 度的兩倍；若將時間拉近到過去 30 年，台灣的暖化速度更是全球平均值的 3 倍。