Definitions for climate change
cli·mate change

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. climate change, global climate changenoun

   a change in the world's climate

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1. climate changenoun

   Changes in the Earth's climate, especially those said to be produced by global warming.

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1. Climate change

   In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global average temperature is more rapid than previous changes, and is primarily caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices increase greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide and methane. Greenhouse gases absorb some of the heat that the Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight. Larger amounts of these gases trap more heat in Earth's lower atmosphere, causing global warming. Due to climate change, deserts are expanding, while heat waves and wildfires are becoming more common. Increased warming in the Arctic has contributed to melting permafrost, glacial retreat and sea ice loss. Higher temperatures are also causing more intense storms, droughts, and other weather extremes. Rapid environmental change in mountains, coral reefs, and the Arctic is forcing many species to relocate or become extinct. Even if efforts to minimise future warming are successful, some effects will continue for centuries. These include ocean heating, ocean acidification and sea level rise.Climate change threatens people with food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. Communities may adapt to climate change through efforts like coastline protection or expanding access to air conditioning, but some impacts are unavoidable. Poorer countries are responsible for a small share of global emissions, yet they have the least ability to adapt and are most vulnerable to climate change. Many climate change impacts are already felt at the current 1.2 °C (2.2 °F) level of warming. Additional warming will increase these impacts and can trigger tipping points, such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations collectively agreed to keep warming "well under 2 °C". However, with pledges made under the Agreement, global warming would still reach about 2.7 °C (4.9 °F) by the end of the century. Limiting warming to 1.5 °C will require halving emissions by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Reducing emissions requires generating electricity from low-carbon sources rather than burning fossil fuels. This change includes phasing out coal and natural gas fired power plants, vastly increasing use of wind, solar, and other types of renewable energy, and reducing energy use. Electricity generated from non-carbon-emitting sources will need to replace fossil fuels for powering transportation, heating buildings, and operating industrial facilities. Carbon can also be removed from the atmosphere, for instance by increasing forest cover and by farming with methods that capture carbon in soil.

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1. climate change

   Climate change refers to significant and long-term changes in global weather patterns and average temperatures. It can include both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns, as well as natural alterations in climate. These changes can cause various environmental issues such as rising sea levels, shrinking ice caps, more frequent extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, droughts, flooding, and heatwaves, and significant impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity.

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1. Climate change

   Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Climate change is caused by factors that include oceanic processes, biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and human-induced alterations of the natural world; these latter effects are currently causing global warming, and "climate change" is often used to describe human-specific impacts. Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. Borehole temperature profiles, ice cores, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable isotope and other sediment analyses, and sea level records serve to provide a climate record that spans the geologic past. More recent data are provided by the instrumental record. Physically based general circulation models are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.

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1. Climate Change

   Any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period (decades or longer). It may result from natural factors such as changes in the sun's intensity, natural processes within the climate system such as changes in ocean circulation, or human activities.

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1. CLIMATE CHANGE

   In a compound dissection CLIMATE CHANGE is also the surroundings and the steady state you are presently in as that is your CLIMATE but when any invent happens on even a micoscale may have a profound effect and that is the CHANGE. Thus CLIMATE CHANGE.

   In a sentence , We are so concerned about large scale world events we have no individual control over or even individuals that we forget about our present CLIMATE surrounding us and the CHANGE . Hence CLIMATE CHANGE on a micro scale is where our greatest concerns be advantageous to be of our greatest interest.

   Etymology: The ETYMOLOGY lends itself to very flexible context as see another nested definition I will assert it to be very important human CLIMATE CHANGE.

   
   

   Submitted by COPROPHAGIAENTHUSIASS on March 23, 2021  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of climate change in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of climate change in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of climate change in a Sentence

1. Mary Robinson:

   We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

2. John Morton:

   That’s an indication of the seriousness with which the global community is now taking climate change, and obviously, this administration has come back in guns blazing on the issue in really important ways.

3. James Shaw:

   I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering and arguing about whether climate change was real or not, it is clearly here now, and if we do not act it will get worse.

4. Voltaire Alferez:

   We are not here to call for sympathy, much less pity. We are calling for solidarity, action from all governments, we are not debating anymore at the Lima climate summit on whether the impacts of climate change are real. We should be taking action now.

5. Joseph Antoine:

   We live with (climate change) everyday, in the old days, it stayed cold for a longer time and there was more water on the land ... all of that will impact the animals.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=climate change
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Climate_Change
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=climate change