carbon

en-noun

carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)

→ Bengali: কার্বন (karbon)

→ Malay: karbon

→ Navajo: káábin

→ Welsh: carbon

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).

der

carbon neutral

If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.

2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13:

(ecology, uncountable) carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.


greenhouse effect

en-noun

greenhouse effect (plural greenhouse effects)

First used in this sense by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm in 1901.

It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.

1988 June 24, James E. Hansen, quotee, “Quotation of the Day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A2:

This contrasts strangely with Mr. Bush's campaign oratory last summer. “Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the ‘White House effect’; as President, I intend to do something about it,” he said in Michigan on Aug. 31. […] Mr. Bush has not acted.

1989 May 9, George H. W. Bush, quotee, “The White House and the Greenhouse”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A30:

In August 1988, Hansen had given dramatic testimony to Congress asserting that “the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is overwhelming.” “The greenhouse effect is real, it is coming soon, and it will have major effects on all peoples.”

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting James E. Hansen, chapter 4, in Merchants of Doubt:

(climatology, climate change) The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.

kweekhuiseffek

process by which a planet is warmed by its atmosphere


carbon dioxide

/ˌkɑːbən dʌɪˈɒksʌɪd/

Coordinate term: carbon monoxide

There were dozens of presentations in 2008, including: […

2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

2013 September–October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 2013-09-03:

(inorganic chemistry) The normal oxide of carbon, CO₂; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis.


global warming

First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with Wallace Smith Broecker's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and Mikhail Budyko's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”.

As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming.

2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-28:

In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this. […] But global warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 150:

The study is one of the first to implicate global warming from human activities as one of the factors that played into the Syrian conflict which is estimated to have claimed more than 190,000 lives.

2015 March 2, Ian Sample, “Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim”, in The Guardian:

The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot".

2022 August 16, “Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.

aardverwarming

increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere to cause climate change


carbon tax

Swedish politicians push for imposition of a punitive carbon tax to turn back a global climate warming that has not even been detected, even as a major political party vows to close down Sweden's nuclear power plants.

1995 November 1, S. Fred Singer, “Ozone Politics with a Nobel Imprimatur”, in Washington Times:

A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.


fossil fuel

Coordinate term: renewable

Without renewables, we’ll still end up burning (albeit much more efficiently) the same coal and natural gas that we burn today in our power plants and the same fuel oil that we burn in our cars and trucks. And it is precisely these carbon-based fossil fuels that we must distance ourselves from if we really want to come to grips with our dependence on foreign oil and with global warming.

2006 October 11, Robert B. Semple Jr., “Beyond Fossil Fuels”, in New York Times:

The basic point is that we are entering uncharted territory. This toothless statement has been true at every point in history. But I believe that this century is the one in which we must confront the thorniest issue ever presented to the human race. This moment is special because we have dramatically built up our population, technology, science, medicine, and democratic institutions as a direct result of vast amounts of surplus energy stemming from a one-time resource. The fossil fuel experience has made us dangerously confident about our cleverness and dominance over nature. What makes this century special, then, is that we will have to cope with a diminishing supply rate of the resource that has been of paramount importance to our high-tech existence.

2011 October 5, Tom Murphy, “"Sustainable" Means Bunkty to Me”, in Do the Math:

Any fuel derived from hydrocarbon deposits such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are non-renewable, and their burning moves carbon from underground into the atmosphere via the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

biofuel

likewise from biologic origins, but recent and renewable


greenhouse gas

greenhouse gas (countable and uncountable, plural greenhouse gases)

/ˌɡɹiːnhaʊs ˈɡæs/

/ˌɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs ˈɡæs/

Termites and cows account for much greenhouse gas.

Only two greenhouse gases get much attention.

Models of the climate system serve as the primary means for developing quantitative estimates of the effects of increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other trace gases. Since increases in the concentrations of CO₂ and other "greenhouse" gases lead to changes in the radiation field, the treatment of radiative processes is the natural starting point for comparison of model studies.

1983, “Summary of Significant Achievements in Principal Thrusts FY 1983”, in National Climate Program: 1983 National Report, Rockville, Md.: National Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 1:

CFC's are very efficient greenhouse gases. The addition of one molecule each of CFC-11 and CFC-12 gives a greenhouse warming of more than 10⁴ molecules of CO₂.

1986, R. T. Watson, M. A. Geller, R. S. Stolarski, R. F. Hampson, “Trace Gas Effects and Climate”, in Present State of Knowledge of the Upper Atmosphere: An Assessment Report (NASA Reference Publication; 1162), Washington, D.C.: Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, →OCLC, page 118:

Biological scientists are aware that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and trace gas concentrations would also have direct effects on plant growth as well as indirect effects through warming. […] Consideration of potential impacts must include the direct effects of "greenhouse" gas concentrations as well as climate warming.

1991, Warren Williams, “Book Reviews: Impact of Carbon Dioxide, Trace Gases, and Climate Change on Global Agriculture. Edited by B. A. Kimball, Chair … (et al.) Published in 1990 by American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America, 677 South Segoe Road, Madison WI 53711, USA. ASA Special Publication Number 53, 133 Pages, 8 Chapters.”, in Gill Sutherland, Sandra Stanislawek, editors, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 34, number 3, Wellington: Scientific and Industrial Research Publishing of New Zealand, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 364, column 1:

Rapidly developing nations such as China and India are not required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite their large and growing use of fossil fuels.

2015, Steven A. Ackerman, John A. Knox, “Climate Forecasting”, in Meteorology: Understanding the Atmosphere, 4th edition, Burlington, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 520:

In other sectors, greenhouse gas emissions have fallen sharply. But transport emissions in the UK have declined by only 2% since 1990.

2019 March 7, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-11:

To keep the world within the 1.5°C temperature rise, the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] has recommended that by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions be cut to 45 per cent below the 2010 levels.

2022, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, “A Wealthier but Riskier World”, in Reclaiming Our Future: A Common Agenda for Advancing Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, New York, N.Y.: United Nations, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:

The consequences were catalogued by the Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution in 1994, which recommended several measures to constrain the emission of greenhouse gases.

2023 March 22, “Industry Insider” [pseudonym], “Restoring Your Railway”, in Rail, number 979, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:

Any gas (such as carbon dioxide, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), or methane) that contributes to the greenhouse effect when released into the atmosphere by absorbing infrared radiation emitted by a planet's surface, thus increasing the surface temperature.

kweekhuisgas

any gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect

གང་འདྲ་ཞིག་ལ་དྲོད་ཁང་རླུང་གཟུགས་ཟེར།

gang 'dra zhig la drod khang rlung gzugs zer


NDC

Coordinate term: INDC

“I don’t see that many new NDCs on the horizon, frankly,” he said, pointing to Australia, with its new government, as a rare exception.

2022 July 18, Fiona Harvey, quoting Frans Timmermans, “Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief”, in The Guardian:

nationally determined contribution
w:nationally determined contribution

(climate change) Initialism of nationally determined contribution.


tipping point

First use of the term appears c. 1959 in the New York Times.

(mathematics, catastrophe theory, figuratively, by extension) The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.

引爆點

the point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible

(sociology) A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.

The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.

Coordinate term: tipping element

It is a scenario climate scientists have feared since first identifying "tipping points" - delicate thresholds where a slight rise in the Earth's temperature can cause a dramatic change in the environment that itself triggers a far greater increase in global temperatures.

2005 August 11, Ian Sample, “Warming hits 'tipping point'”, in The Guardian:

Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.

2021 August 5, Damian Carrington, “Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse”, in The Guardian:

(climatology) An irreversible change in the climate system.


By swapping out less efficient federal vehicles for new hybrid and fuel efficient ones, this strategy will reduce gasoline consumption by 1.3 million gallons per year and prevent 26 million pounds of CO₂ from entering the atmosphere.

2009 April 9, Office of the Press Secretary, “President Obama Announces Accelerated Purchase of 17,600 New American Vehicles for Government Fleet”, in White House, archived from the original on 2010-03-10:


climate change

climate change (usually uncountable, plural climate changes)

Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.

2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:

If you are serious about climate change a rolling programme of electrification is the only rational policy.

2019 October, Roger Ford, “WCP award - victory for DfT reactionaries”, in Modern Railways, page 31:

Both the UK and Europe have experienced record summer temperatures in the past couple of years, which have brought home the fact that climate change is happening.

2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, in RAIL, number 999, page 34:

Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change.


CDM

CDM (countable and uncountable, plural CDMs)

Clean Development Mechanism
w:Clean Development Mechanism

(UN, climate change) Initialism of Clean Development Mechanism.


carbon debt

the overuse, by an individual or state, of the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of the world's oceans, vegetation and soil


carbon offset

Today, if you want to counter the carbon impacts you create from flying, you too can buy carbon offsets.

2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 28:

Carbon offsets do seem to offer the most direct way to assuage traveler’s guilt. In theory, they magically expiate your sins.

2019 June 3, Andy Newman, “If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Money from carbon offsets can provide vital financial support for projects seeking to protect and restore some of the most beautiful threatened ecosystems around the world.

2021 May 4, Patrick Greenfield, “Carbon offsets used by major airlines based on flawed system, warn experts”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-05-04:

Carbon offsets are a popular route for reaching “net zero” – Oliver cited one study which found that two-thirds of companies in heavily polluting industries relied on offsets instead of emissions reductions to reach carbon neutrality.

2022 August 22, Adrian Horton, “John Oliver on corporate ‘net zero’ proposals: ‘We cannot offset our way out of climate change’”, in The Guardian:

carbon emissions trading
carbon emissions trading

A reduction in carbon dioxide emission by a third party purchased by a heavy carbon dioxide producer as part of carbon emissions trading.


carbon emissions trading

The trading of emission allowances for carbon dioxide.

碳排放權交易

trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide


carbon trade

An instance of carbon emissions trading.


hockey stick

One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages. Then comes the blade: The mercury swings sharply upward in the 20th century.

2005 February 14, Antonio Regalado, “In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:

They made it the focus of their attacks, hoping that by demolishing the hockey stick graph they would destroy the credibility of climate scientists and the notion of global warming as a phenomenon caused by human activity.

2006 March 15, Fred Pearce, “Climate: The great hockey stick debate”, in New Scientist:

“That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added[…].

2024 April 18, Callum Jones, quoting Michael Nathanson, “Netflix profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal, statistics) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.


CDR

CDR (countable and uncountable, plural CDRs)

content of decrement of register#English

(programming) Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.

(ophthalmology) Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.

Coordinate term: VDR

current divider rule
current divider rule#English

current division rule
current division rule#English

(electronics) Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.

Committee for the Defense of the Revolution


season creep

A small but significant tendency for spring to start earlier and for autumn to end later; the result of global warming.


carbon neutral

In mainstream usage since the early 2000s.

We must accelerate the switch from coal and oil to clean, carbon-neutral power. Such a shift will bring new jobs and growth.

2003 January 23, Claude Martin, “Weather in Davos : Let's now get serious about warming”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

The hotel plans to make the property "carbon neutral" — whereby carbon emissions are offset by tree planting or other green schemes, and the hotel car runs on filtered, used vegetable oil. Or will, when the promised supply arrives.

2004 February 6, Katherine Tanko, “Luxury in an 'eco' world”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Having an overall zero carbon footprint after carbon emissions trading has been taken into account.

neutre en carboni

having an overall zero carbon footprint after carbon emissions trading has been taken into account


carbon footprint

carbon footprint (plural carbon footprints)

Popularized by a 2005 advertising campaign for fossil-fuel company BP in order to shift blame for climate change onto individual consumers. Modelled after the ecological footprint concept developed in the 1990s.

Coordinate term: ecological footprint

House insulation is another way of reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint, as well as double glazing and draught-proofing.

1994, Peter Simmons, Petrol to Gas: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Complete D.I.Y.Conversion for the Motorist, Password Publishing, page 14:

Usage of local products has boosted the income of local farmers, created more work opportunities and lowered carbon footprints. Previously, business owners in Jiasian competed with each other and fought over business opportunities.

2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

Also true is that building HS2 will produce considerable carbon emissions. However, those emissions pale into insignificance if this claim from the business case is true: "To put HS2's carbon footprint in perspective, the estimated total carbon emissions from both building and operating Phase 1 for a full 120 years produces the same amount of carbon as just one month of the UK's road network."

2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65:

But the oil companies would like you to think that’s how it works. It turns out that the concept of the “carbon footprint”, that popular measure of personal impact, was the brainchild of an advertising firm working for BP.

2021 August 23, Rebecca Solnit, “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook”, in The Guardian:

A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.

碳足印

measure of carbon dioxide produced by someone


riscaldamento globale

it-noun

riscaldamento globale m (plural riscaldamenti globali)


climate canary

en-noun

climate canary (plural climate canaries)

Similar to the miner's canary, from which the term is derived.

early warning system
early warning system

A species that is affected by an environmental danger prior to other species, thus serving as an early warning system for the other species with regard to a danger.


geoengineering

Although the panel does not support even pilot programs, it calls geoengineering “technically feasible in terms of cooling effects and costs” and says it has “the potential to affect greenhouse warming on a substantial scale.”

1991 May 20, Sharon Begley, “On the Wings of Icarus”, in Newsweek, page 42:

Although he views large-scale geoengineering as an act of profound hubris[…]he thinks it may be necessary as an emergency measure, much like kidney dialysis is necessary to a person whose health is failing.

2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone:

A scientist gets into geoengineering, they're not a scientist anymore, they're a politician. Get hate mail, rocks through window, no one takes their real work seriously, all that.

2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

The artificial manipulation of the environments of the Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.


global cooling

Some point out that global temperatures peaked in 1998 and have been falling since then. Indeed, several argue that a period of global cooling is on the way.

2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Many climate contrarians have seized upon these studies and magazine articles to argue that since climate scientists supposedly got their global cooling predictions wrong in the 1970s, they could be getting their global warming predictions wrong now.

2015, Dana Nuccitelli, Climatology Versus Pseudoscience […] , ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 20:

Global climate change in the form of declining average temperatures; which was conjectured in the 1970s.


Klimaveränderung

de-noun

Klimaveränderung f (genitive Klimaveränderung, plural Klimaveränderungen)

Klimaveränderung (genitive)
Klimaveränderungen (plural)
Klimaveränderung (nominative singular)
Klimaveränderungen (definite nominative plural)
Klimaveränderung (genitive singular)
Klimaveränderungen (definite genitive plural)
Klimaveränderung (dative singular)
Klimaveränderungen (dative definite plural)
Klimaveränderung (accusative singular)
Klimaveränderungen (accusative definite plural)

Klima (“climate”) + Veränderung (“change”)


Klimawandel

de-noun

Klimawandel m (strong, genitive Klimawandels, plural Klimawandel)

Klimawandels (genitive)
Klimawandel (plural)
Klimawandel (nominative singular)
Klimawandel (definite nominative plural)
Klimawandels (genitive singular)
Klimawandel (definite genitive plural)
Klimawandel (dative singular)
Klimawandeln (dative definite plural)
Klimawandel (accusative singular)
Klimawandel (accusative definite plural)

Klima (“climate”) + Wandel (“transformation, change”)

compound

climate change (any large-scale, long-term climate change)

Kohlendioxid trägt durch seine Menge mehr als jedes andere Treibhausgas zum Klimawandel bei, doch seine Konzentration in der Luft beträgt weniger als 0,04 Prozent.

2010, Der Spiegel, number 2/2010, page 125:

Carbon dioxide contributes by its amount more than any other greenhouse gas to climate change, but its concentration in the air is less than 0.04 percent.

(particularly) climate change (anthropogenic changes since the onset of the industrialization)


globale Erwärmung

de-noun

globale Erwärmung f (definite nominative die globale Erwärmung, genitive globaler Erwärmung, definite genitive der globalen Erwärmung, no plural)

die globale Erwärmung (definite nominative)
globaler Erwärmung (genitive)
der globalen Erwärmung (definite genitive)


TCR

The Climate Registry
w:The Climate Registry

(climate change) Initialism of The Climate Registry.


Treibhauseffekt

Treibhauseffekt m (strong, genitive Treibhauseffektes or Treibhauseffekts, plural Treibhauseffekte)

Treibhauseffektes (genitive)
Treibhauseffekts (genitive)
Treibhauseffekte (plural)
Treibhauseffekt (nominative singular)
Treibhauseffekte (definite nominative plural)
Treibhauseffektes (genitive singular)
Treibhauseffekts (genitive singular)
Treibhauseffekte (definite genitive plural)
Treibhauseffekt (dative singular)
Treibhauseffekte (dative singular)
Treibhauseffekten (dative definite plural)
Treibhauseffekt (accusative singular)
Treibhauseffekte (accusative definite plural)

Treibhaus (“greenhouse”) + Effekt (“effect”)


EG

(climate change activism) Initialism of Ende Gelände.


solastalgia

/ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/

Coined by Australian philosopher and researcher Glenn Albrecht in 2005 from Latin sōlācium (“solace, comfort”) + -algia (“pain”).

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There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light where we can get a better sense of it.

2010, Albert Bates, The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, New Society Publishers, →ISBN:

Part of what I feel in this city is solastalgia, not so much for buildings as for the routines I established around those buildings: the walk to visit friends in the CBD, the stroll to the cinema.

2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 342:

A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.


Anthropocene

From a combination of anthropo- + -cene modeled on Holocene, Pleistocene, and similar. First attested in the 1960s in the translations of Russian-language scientific articles, possibly with a different meaning. Supposedly coined independently in the 1980s by American biologist Eugene Stoermer and later popularized by Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen in 2000.

Holonym: Quaternary (current period)

Coordinate term: Holocene (as separate epoch)

The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).

1960, Doklady. Biological Sciences Sections, volumes 132–135, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640, column 2:

The above palynologic data indicate that the evolutionary history of vegetation in the upper reaches of the Indigirka during the Holocene was much more complex than has been thought and than is reflected in the existing stratigraphic maps of the Anthropocene of the Northeast USSR[…].

1967, Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.: Earth Sciences Sections, volumes 172–177, Washington, D.C.: American Geological Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:

Considering these and many other major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term "anthropocene" for the current geological epoch.

2000 May, Paul J[ozef] Crutzen, Eugene F. Stoermer, “The ‘Anthropocene’”, in Will Steffen, editor, Global Change Newsletter, number 41, Stockholm, Sweden: IGBP Secretariat, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2017-10-09, page 17:

Phoenix [in Arizona] and Lubbock [in Texas] are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

2012 January–February, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future [review of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (2011) by William deBuys]”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2017-05-01, page 70:

Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

2013 July 20, “Welcome to the Plastisphere: What is Pollution to Some is Opportunity to Others”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 2013-07-31:

We’re supposed to be living through the Anthropocene, an era where human activity has become the dominant influence on the environment. The idea of the Anthropocene conjures notions of human omnipotence.

2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian:

The guardians of the world’s official geological timescale have firmly rejected a proposal to declare an Anthropocene epoch, after an epic academic row.

2024 March 22, Damian Carrington, “Geologists reject declaration of Anthropocene epoch”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

en:proposed but rejected geological epoch, strictly

(geology, formal, strictly) A proposed but rejected geological epoch, in which the effect of human activities on the global environment has disrupted the natural variability of the Holocene, ending the Holocene. (It was rejected as formal scientific nomenclature in 2024 owing to not meeting a bar for how a geological epoch is formally defined.)

Holonyms: Holocene (current epoch), Quaternary (current period)

en:era of human impact on environment, loosely

(loosely, informal) The era of human impact on the environment, irrespective of its nomenclatural status as a geological event or epoch; especially, the era of large impact (i.e., on industrial and postindustrial scale).


calentamiento global

global warming (a sustained increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere sufficient to cause climate change.)


clean coal

Any technology that may mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that arise from the burning of coal for electrical power.

(dated) anthracite (a cleaner burning variety of coal, which is usually hard and bluish, with fewer impurities; making it acceptable for uses needing cleaner coal)

(dated) coke (a coked version of coal, that has been cleaned of many of its impurities, making it acceptable for use in steel-making and other uses needing cleaner coal)


megadrought

The most severe droughts also tend to be the most widespread and prolonged, but fortunately these megadroughts are far less frequent than the lesser droughts which are vastly in the majority […]

2000, Joan Whitmore, Drought Management on Farmland, →ISBN, page 8:

It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.

2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Severe water cuts were announced on Tuesday to western states in the grip of a severe “megadrought” that has dropped levels in the country’s largest two reservoirs to record lows.

2022 August 16, “Drastic water cuts imposed as ‘megadrought’ grips western US states”, in The Guardian:

(climatology) A drought lasting for decades or centuries.

pitkä kuivuuskausi

a drought lasting for decades or centuries


doomer

From doom + -er. The more recent sense was popularized via a meme, “30 Year-Old Boomer”. The derivations of which are other words that end in -oomer, describing various personality types.

Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer."

2009, David Holmgren, Future Scenarios, Chelsea Green:

[…] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]

2015, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, page 114:

One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.

Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end.

2020 February 3, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale”, in The Atlantic:

Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.

2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:

(neologism, sometimes capitalized) Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.

Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?

1590, T[homas] L[odge], Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G[ubbin] and John Busbie, →OCLC; republished [Glasgow]: [ […] Hunterian Club], [1876], →OCLC:

That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.

1869, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works:


global weirding

A play on global warming, popularized by Thomas Friedman.

You may see the highest zone numbers (14 or 15) on the label of that tropical banana plant you bought. Global weirding or no, if you live anywhere other than South Florida, you're still going to have to put it in your glass conservatory for the winter.

2002 November 7, Anne Raver, “Bananas in the Backyard”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Remember: climate change means “global weirding,” not just global warming.

2008 August 7, Thomas L. Friedman, “The language of global weirding”, in The Seattle Times, retrieved 2021-07-22:

The belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense.


globális felmelegedés

globális (“global”) + felmelegedés (“warming”)

affix

global warming (a sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change)


COP

en-noun

COP (countable and uncountable, plural COPs)

(uncountable, UK) Initialism of close of play.

COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).

2019 December 2, Fiona Harvey, “Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world?”, in The Guardian:

conference of the parties
conference of the parties#English

(law, politics) Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.

common operational picture
w:common operational picture

(military) Initialism of common operational picture.

community ophthalmic physician
w:community ophthalmic physician

(Ireland, medicine) Initialism of community ophthalmic physician.

Initialism of coefficient of performance.

code of practice
code of practice#English


Thermageddon

Coined by Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter in his 2003 book, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, from thermal + -geddon (after Armageddon (“the end of the world”)).

Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so.

2010, Alastair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.


אפקט החממה

he-noun

אֵפֵקְט הַחֲמָמָה

אֵפֵקְט הַחֲמָמָה • (efékt ha-khamamá) m

אֵפֵקְט הַחֲמָמָה (canonical)
efékt ha-khamamá (romanization)

greenhouse effect
greenhouse effect#English:_Q41560

(climatology, climate change) greenhouse effect (the process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere)

he:אפקט החממה


GHG

It is generally accepted that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) produced by human activities are gradually warming our planet. GHGs emitted into the airspace of any one state are eventually dispersed throughout the world.

2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 173:


Climategate

From climate + -gate, popularized by climate change denialist James Delingpole.

Over the Copenhagen climate conference lies the shadow of “Climategate,” emails and documents hacked from a server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England.

2009 December 11, Laura Blenkinsop, “Climategate': A primer on the email scandal”, in National Post:

And that raises a critical question: did Climategate play a role in this failure to act? Some observers believe it did and, as an illustration, point to the fate of the Copenhagen climate summit[…]which took place only a few weeks after the leaking of the CRU’s emails.

2019 November 9, Robin McKie, “Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?”, in The Guardian:

The "Climategate" computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.

2021 June 9, “University of East Anglia 'Climategate' scandal to be turned into film”, in BBC News:

A scandal involving the theft of computer records in November, 2009 which contained information about climate change research conducted at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England.


klimaatregeling

nl-noun

klimaatregeling f (plural klimaatregelingen)

(climate change) a measure aimed at targeting climate change


NZE

(climate change) Initialism of net-zero emissions.

(climate change) Initialism of net-zero energy.


warmist

These elites “understand the real significance of climate change better than most of the ‘warmists’ in the political centre, the ones who are still insisting that the response can be gradual and painless and that we don’t need to go to war with anybody…

2014 September 22, John Gray, quoting Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate review – Naomi Klein’s powerful and urgent polemic”, in The Guardian:

(politics, chiefly derogatory) A person who believes that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.

réchauffiste

believer in global warming caused by human activity


cap and trade

China is implementing a cap and trade system in five cities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Shenzhen) and two provinces (Guangdong and Hubei). These pilots are intended to be up and running in 2013 in order to provide a learning experience that will be used to implement a nationwide cap and trade system by 2015.

2013, Al Gore, “The Edge”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:

A market-based approach to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in emissions, participating companies being assigned an emissions quota that can be traded with others if not used.


GWP

(climatology) Initialism of global warming potential.


IPCC

In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.”

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, “Introduction”, in Merchants of Doubt:

The comprehensive assessment of climate science published on Monday, the sixth such report from the IPCC since 1988, has been eight years in the making, marshalling the work of hundreds of experts and peer-review studies.

2021 August 9, Fiona Harvey, “Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet”, in The Guardian:

w:Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(climate change, UN) Initialism of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: an intergovernmental body of the United Nations, established in 1988, aiming to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.


AAU

The standard allowance, an “assigned amount unit” (AAU), is equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. […] In general, these credits can be purchased, sold, and otherwise transferred by private actors through international markets. Unlike AAUs, they are not allocated by a state but rather are generated through voluntary activities undertaken most commonly by private actors.

2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174:

assigned amount unit
assigned amount unit#English

(law, climate change) Initialism of assigned amount unit.


antiwarming

en-adj

antiwarming (comparative more antiwarming, superlative most antiwarming)

more antiwarming (comparative)
most antiwarming (superlative)

On the other hand, many U.S. corporations foresaw the coming confirmation and the likely regulations and antiwarming measures.

1996, Joseph Francis Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines, 2025, page 119:

The post-Bali negotiations over how the world's countries will share the responsibilities of the antiwarming campaign after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 are scheduled to be completed in December 2009.

2008, Helena Cobban, Re-engage!: America and the world after Bush, page 80:

(environmental science) Counteracting global warming.


Klimaerwärmung

de-noun

Klimaerwärmung f (genitive Klimaerwärmung, plural (rare) Klimaerwärmungen)

Klimaerwärmung (genitive)
Klimaerwärmungen (plural rare)
Klimaerwärmung (nominative singular)
Klimaerwärmungen (definite nominative plural rare)
Klimaerwärmung (genitive singular)
Klimaerwärmungen (definite genitive plural rare)
Klimaerwärmung (dative singular)
Klimaerwärmungen (dative definite plural rare)
Klimaerwärmung (accusative singular)
Klimaerwärmungen (accusative definite plural rare)

(chiefly in the singular) climate warming


réchauffiste

fr-noun

réchauffiste m or f by sense (plural réchauffistes)


aquecimento global

pt-noun

aquecimento global m (usually uncountable, plural aquecimentos globais)

global warming (increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere to cause climate change)


efeito de estufa

efeito de estufa m (usually uncountable, plural efeitos de estufa)

(Portugal, ecology) greenhouse effect (process by which a planet is warmed by its atmosphere)


mudança climática

mudança climática f (plural mudanças climáticas)

climate change (changes in the Earth’s climate)


globální oteplování

globální oteplování (nominative singular)
globální oteplování (nominative plural)
globálního oteplování (genitive singular)
globálních oteplování (genitive plural)
globálnímu oteplování (dative singular)
globálním oteplováním (dative plural)
globální oteplování (accusative singular)
globální oteplování (accusative plural)
globální oteplování (singular vocative)
globální oteplování (plural vocative)
globálním oteplování (locative singular)
globálních oteplováních (locative plural)
globálním oteplováním (instrumental singular)
globálními oteplováními (instrumental plural)


fossil fool

I think that will be around 2012, when the net present value of solar electricity will basically be at parity with grid-based fossil fool electricity in many markets without subsidy.

2008, Sustainable Industries Journal - Issues 60-70, page 17:

The supporters of the fossil-fool industry have tried to characterize conservation and solar as inefficient, uncomfortable, costly, and unproven.

2011, David Bainbridge, Ken Haggard, Passive Solar Architecture, →ISBN, page 260:

Proponents of “Fossil Fools Day” encourage people to kick the oil habit and avoid acting like a fossil fool via such means as walking, cycling, taking public transportation, or car-pooling whenever possible, buying fuel-efficient vehicles (e.g hybrids), living as close to work as possible, shopping at local stores, and buying regionally and seasonally produced food whenever possible.

2014, Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan, Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment, →ISBN, page 44:

(derogatory, slang) One who uses fossil fuels without concern for their environmental impact.


climate denialism

The claim that climate change is either not taking place, not caused nor accelerated by human activity or was greatly exaggerated.


climate denialist

en-noun

climate denialist (plural climate denialists)

(derogatory) A supporter of climate denialism.


climato-sceptique

fr-noun

climato-sceptique m or f by sense (plural climato-sceptiques)


Kyoto Protocol

(international law) The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.


Erderwärmung

de-noun

Erderwärmung f (genitive Erderwärmung, plural Erderwärmungen)

Erderwärmung (genitive)
Erderwärmungen (plural)
Erderwärmung (nominative singular)
Erderwärmungen (definite nominative plural)
Erderwärmung (genitive singular)
Erderwärmungen (definite genitive plural)
Erderwärmung (dative singular)
Erderwärmungen (dative definite plural)
Erderwärmung (accusative singular)
Erderwärmungen (accusative definite plural)

[ˈeːɐ̯tʔɛɐ̯ˌvɛʁmʊŋ]


глобално затоплување

mk-noun

глобално затоплување • (globalno zatopluvanje) n

globalno zatopluvanje (romanization)
глобално затоплување (indefinite singular)
глобалното затоплување (definite singular unspecified)
глобалново затоплување (definite proximal singular)
глобалноно затоплување (definite distal singular)
глобално затоплување (singular vocative)

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глобално затоплување

глобалното затоплување

глобалново затоплување

глобалноно затоплување

глобално затоплување

глобални затоплувања

глобалните затоплувања

глобалниве затоплувања

глобалнине затоплувања

глобални затоплувања

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AGW

Initialism of anthropogenic global warming.


carbon neutrality

Of the Green New Deal, the proposal backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that raises the goal of carbon neutrality in a decade, he is flatly dismissive. “Well, it’s a fairytale. It’s like saying vaccines don’t work – that’s a form of science denialism. Why peddle fantasies to people?”

2021 February 15, Emma Brockes, quoting Bill Gates, “Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’”, in The Guardian:


super greenhouse gas

en-noun

super greenhouse gas (plural super greenhouse gases)

(climate) Any greenhouse gas with a greenhouse effect that is several orders of magnitude stronger than that of carbon dioxide.


emissions trading

Yet the Kyoto Protocol's most enduring legacy may be a uniquely American idea - that "emissions trading" can help control heat-trapping gases at low cost.

2005 February 17, David B. Sandalow, “Emissions trading is Kyoto's success story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.


klimaatgevoeligheid

nl-noun

klimaatgevoeligheid f (plural klimaatgevoeligheden)

From klimaat (“climate”) + gevoeligheid (“sensitivity”), calque of English climate sensitivity.


klimaatcrimineel

nl-noun

klimaatcrimineel m (plural klimaatcriminelen, diminutive klimaatcrimineeltje n)

klimaatcriminelen (plural)
klimaatcrimineeltje (diminutive neuter)

From klimaat (“climate”) + crimineel (“criminal”).

compound

Op een persconferentie maakte hij Abbott ten overvloede uit voor 'klimaatcrimineel', waardoor het niet lang duurde voordat Greg Hunt, minister van Milieu, Bandt ervan betichtte politiek voordeel te willen behalen uit de ontwrichtende ramp waarop de brand ook toen al leek uit te draaien.

2013 October 23, Henrico Prins, “Sydney door branden omsingeld”, in de Volkskrant:

‘Die mensen achter al die glazen façades’, besluit Sabido de tour, ‘zijn klimaatcriminelen. Die moeten we zo ver mogelijk bij onze politici vandaan houden.’

2015 December 3, Jaap Tielbeke, “Klimaatcriminelen”, in De Groene Amsterdammer:

(politics, climate change, derogatory) climate criminal, someone whose actions with respect to the climate, in particular climate change, are believed to be criminal or, when used as hyperbole, outrageous


klimaatkanarie

nl-noun

klimaatkanarie m (plural klimaatkanaries, diminutive klimaatkanarietje n)

klimaatkanaries (plural)
klimaatkanarietje (diminutive neuter)

From klimaat (“climate”) + kanarie (“canary”), calque of English climate canary. Referring to the canary in the coal mine.


klimaatwet

nl-noun

klimaatwet f (plural klimaatwetten, diminutive klimaatwetje n)

klimaatwetten (plural)
klimaatwetje (diminutive neuter)

From the 2000s. Compound of klimaat (“climate”) + wet (“law”).

(climate change) law regulating aspects of climate policy, often a comprehensive law that f.e. stipulates a carbon or climate budget


klimaatbeleid

klimaatbeleid n (plural klimaatbeleiden)

(climate change, chiefly uncountable) climate policy


cli-fi

From climate + fiction (modeled after sci-fi). Coined by Dan Bloom in 2006.

Perhaps the most high-profile cli-fi author is Margaret Atwood, whose 2009 The Year of the Flood features survivors of a biological catastrophe also central to her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, a book Atwood sometimes preferred to call "speculative fiction".

2013 May 31, Rodge Glass, “Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi'”, in The Guardian:

The issue is so pressing that some have started to use the term “cli-fi” for climate fiction — but this faddish coinage obscures a longer history of sf’s engagement with the environment and leaves unexamined the question of why sf has proven such a valuable genre for thinking about environmental futures.

[2021 July 20, Sherryl Vint, “A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment”, in The MIT Press Reader:

A subgenre of ecofiction with issues about climate change as the main focus.


Ende Gelände

/ˈɛndəˌɡəlɛndə/

Literally, “end (of) terrain”. The rhyme has a reinforcing effect.

Die mehrheitsbemühten Fridays for Future haben sich totgelaufen, linksradikale Formate wie Ende Gelände jucken Energieriesen wie RWE kaum noch – beide sind ignorierbar geworden.

2023 April 18, Jonas Wahmkow, “Protestaktionen der Letzten Generation: Lasst es uns besser machen!”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

A civil disobedience movement occupying coal mines in Germany to raise awareness for climate justice.


climate sceptic

en-noun

climate sceptic (plural climate sceptics)

A person who does not believe climate change is happening or does not believe it is caused by human activity.


agroclimate

agroclimate (countable and uncountable, plural agroclimates)

(agriculture) The climate as it relates to agriculture


climate denier

"Climate deniers fall into the same camp as people who still don't believe we landed on the moon," Gore's spokeswoman told The Politico a few days ago.

2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

In a question and answer session following a public lecture, the prominent (and genuinely sceptical) climate scientist Chris Rapley was vociferously challenged by a climate denier in the audience.

2013, Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, →ISBN:

Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A22:

President Trump unfortunately is a climate denier.

2018 December 2, Mark Dunlea, “Letter to the editor: Leaders must act on climate change now”, in Glens Falls Post-Star:

Someone who denies that global climate change is real or, if real, that it is due to human activities.


climate denial

The term 'denier' is also controversial, with connotations that climate denial is akin to Holocaust denial.

2013, G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook, Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, →ISBN, page 446:

As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.

It’s really significant, Trevor, that Donald Trump is now the face of climate denial.

2018 November 29, Avi Selk, quoting Al Gore, “Al Gore calls Trump ‘the principal global face of climate denial’”, in The Washington Post:

Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, announced that he was suing ExxonMobil, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries, for perpetrating a fraud by spreading climate denial for decades.

2020 July 1, Bill McKibben, “What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common”, in The New Yorker:

climate denialism
climate denialism#English


klimaatbos

nl-noun

klimaatbos n (plural klimaatbossen, diminutive klimaatbosje n)

klimaatbossen (plural)
klimaatbosje (diminutive neuter)

(climate change) forest planted for the sequestration of carbon dioxide, in order to prevent or mitigate climate change


klimatförändring

klimatförändring (indefinite nominative singular)


réchauffement climatique

fr-noun

réchauffement climatique m (uncountable)


flygskam

flygskam (indefinite nominative singular)

→ Danish: flyskam (calque)

→ Dutch: vliegschaamte (calque)

→ Finnish: lentohäpeä (calque)

→ German: Flugscham (calque)

Compound of flyg (“flight”) + skam (“shame”).

Flygskam hos medelklassen lär inte rädda världen, men vi kanske åtminstone slipper plågas av poänglösa resebilder på Instagram.

2018 January 23, Malte Persson, “Översvämmade i en flod av förljugenhet”, in Expressen:

A middle-class shame associated with flying is unlikely to save the world, but at least we might avoid being plagued by holiday photos on Instagram.

Både kronan och flygskammen kan vara viktiga faktorer som påverkar hur många besökare vi får under årets viktigaste månader.

2019 July 7, Henning Eklund, “Svensk turism slår rekord: ”Stolt att stanna hemma””, in Svenska Dagbladet:

Both the krona and the shame associated with flying may be important factors influencing the number of visitors we have received during the busiest months of the year.

shame of flying (due to the environmental impact of aviation)


lukewarmer

Lukewarmers such as me accept that global warming is real, but not that it's entirely man-made or that it's dangerous.

2018, Ralph B. Alexander, Science Under Attack: The Age of Unreason, page 114:

Blogs that can be regarded as in the “lukewarmer” camp.

2019, Nelya Koteyko, Brigitte Nerlich, Iina Hellsten, Climate Change Communication and the Internet, →ISBN:

Indeed, a new breed of “lukewarmers” have accepted that there is some warming, but claim that it is too small to worry about.

2019, Shaun Lovejoy, Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate, →ISBN:

One who believes that climate change is due to human activity but who does not think it is a serious problem.


klimatkompensation

klimatkompensation (indefinite nominative singular)


Heißzeit

de-noun

Heißzeit f (genitive Heißzeit, plural Heißzeiten)

Heißzeit (genitive)
Heißzeiten (plural)
Heißzeit (nominative singular)
Heißzeiten (definite nominative plural)
Heißzeit (genitive singular)
Heißzeiten (definite genitive plural)
Heißzeit (dative singular)
Heißzeiten (dative definite plural)
Heißzeit (accusative singular)
Heißzeiten (accusative definite plural)

heiß + Zeit, to rhyme with Eiszeit (“ice age”).

Nun ist [James] Lovelock ein seltener Vogel, als er als GRÜNER zugleich ein vehementer Verfechter der Kernergie ist. Seine Besorgnis vor einer neuen “Heißzeit” ist so überwältigend, dass er alle verfügbaren Energien einsetzen will, um nur den CO₂-Ausstoß zu verringern: […]

2008, Heinz-Dieter Kittsteiner, Weltgeist, Weltmarkt, Weltgericht, Wilhelm Fink, page 213:

(uncommon) "hot age" (period of unusually hot temperatures)


emission allowance

en-noun

emission allowance (plural emission allowances)

The permit to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases during a specified period.


klimaatstaking

nl-noun

klimaatstaking f (plural klimaatstakingen)

(climate change) climate strike (strike by mostly young people to protest again inaction on climate change policy)


global heating

A continuation of present trends in the emission of CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases is expected to result in additional global heating of at least 2° by the year 2030.

1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press, →ISBN, page 5:

[…] the popular term for the human influence on global climate is “global warming,” although it really means global heating, of which the observed global temperature increase is only one consequence […]

2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92:


klimatångest

anxiety about a catastrophic global warming


klimatflykting

klimatflykting (indefinite nominative singular)

climate refugee (person fleeing from their home due to climate change)


climate strike

Firstly coined in 2015 during a mass demonstration at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the expression took off only in 2018 after the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays in order to protest in front of the national parliament. In September 2019 around six million people joined the climate strike worldwide.

school strike for the climate, Fridays for Future

A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.

2015 United_Nations Climate Change Conference

气候罢工

a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis


Klimaleugner

de-noun

Klimaleugner m (strong, genitive Klimaleugners, plural Klimaleugner, feminine Klimaleugnerin)

Klimaleugners (genitive)
Klimaleugner (plural)
Klimaleugnerin (feminine)
Klimaleugner (nominative singular)
Klimaleugner (definite nominative plural)
Klimaleugners (genitive singular)
Klimaleugner (definite genitive plural)
Klimaleugner (dative singular)
Klimaleugnern (dative definite plural)
Klimaleugner (accusative singular)
Klimaleugner (accusative definite plural)

(derogatory) climate denier, climate denialist (a supporter of climate denialism)


klimaatspijbelaar

nl-noun

klimaatspijbelaar m (plural klimaatspijbelaars)

Compound of klimaat (“climate”) + spijbelaar (“truant”).

compound

(climate change) a climate striker who skips school in order to protest


klimaatontkenner

nl-noun

klimaatontkenner m (plural klimaatontkenners)

From klimaat + ontkenner, calque of English climate denier.

(climate change, derogatory) climate denier, climate denialist (one who rejects the occurrence of anthropogenic climate change)


ilmaston lämpeneminen

ilmaston lämpeneminen (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiset (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpeneminen (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiset (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisen (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiset (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisen (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisten (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisien (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistä (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiä (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessä (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissä (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestä (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistä (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseen (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiin (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellä (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillä (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltä (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltä (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiselle (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisille (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenä (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinä (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseksi (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisiksi (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettä (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittä (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseni (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisteni (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisieni (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistäni (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiäni (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessäni (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissäni (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestäni (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistäni (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseeni (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiini (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiselläni (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisilläni (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltäni (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltäni (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiselleni (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisilleni (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenäni (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinäni (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisekseni (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisikseni (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettäni (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittäni (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisineni (comitative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisesi (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemistesi (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisiesi (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistäsi (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiäsi (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessäsi (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissäsi (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestäsi (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistäsi (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseesi (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiisi (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiselläsi (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisilläsi (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltäsi (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltäsi (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellesi (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillesi (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenäsi (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinäsi (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseksesi (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisiksesi (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettäsi (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittäsi (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisinesi (comitative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisemme (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemistemme (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisiemme (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistämme (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiämme (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessämme (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissämme (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestämme (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistämme (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseemme (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiimme (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellämme (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillämme (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltämme (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltämme (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellemme (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillemme (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenämme (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinämme (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseksemme (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisiksemme (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettämme (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittämme (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisinemme (comitative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenne (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemistenne (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisienne (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistänne (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiänne (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessänne (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissänne (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestänne (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistänne (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseenne (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiinne (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellänne (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillänne (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltänne (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltänne (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellenne (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillenne (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenänne (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinänne (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseksenne (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisiksenne (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettänne (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittänne (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisinenne (comitative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (accusative nominative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (accusative nominative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (accusative genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (accusative genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisensä (genitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemistensä (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisiensä (genitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemistään (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemistänsä (partitive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiään (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisiänsä (partitive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisessään (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisessänsä (inessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisissään (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisissänsä (inessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisestään (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisestänsä (elative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisistään (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisistänsä (elative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseensä (illative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiinsä (illative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisellään (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisellänsä (adessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisillään (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisillänsä (adessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltään (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemiseltänsä (ablative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltään (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisiltänsä (ablative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemiselleen (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisellensä (allative singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisilleen (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisillensä (allative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisenään (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisenänsä (essive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisinään (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisinänsä (essive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisekseen (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemiseksensä (singular translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisikseen (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisiksensä (plural translative)
ilmaston lämpenemisettään (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisettänsä (abessive singular)
ilmaston lämpenemisittään (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisittänsä (abessive plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisineen (comitative plural)
ilmaston lämpenemisinensä (comitative plural)


climate fire

A bushfire or forest fire occurring during the period in which global temperatures have risen due to climate change.


climate migrant

en-noun

climate migrant (plural climate migrants)

A person who has relocated in response to anthropogenic climate change.


climate refugee

climate refugee (plural climate refugees)

“Climate refugees” often wanted to stay in their own country to preserve their society and culture, according to research published by the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment.

2023 November 11, Nic Fildes, “Australia offers Tuvalu islanders resident visas to escape effects of global warming”, in FT Weekend, page 1:

A person who is forced to relocate in response to anthropogenic climate change that has made their region unliveable.


net zero

Carbon offsets are a popular route for reaching “net zero” – Oliver cited one study which found that two-thirds of companies in heavily polluting industries relied on offsets instead of emissions reductions to reach carbon neutrality.

2022 August 22, Adrian Horton, “John Oliver on corporate ‘net zero’ proposals: ‘We cannot offset our way out of climate change’”, in The Guardian:

It is understood he [Chris Skidmore] had no problem in working with Rees-Mogg but wanted to continue promoting net zero.

2022 September 6, “Jacob Rees-Mogg, who decried ‘climate alarmism’, to take on UK energy brief”, in The Guardian:

The Cop28 presidency released a draft text in the early evening on Monday, which called for “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, so as to achieve net zero by, before or around 2050, in keeping with the science”.

2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(climate change) Ellipsis of net zero greenhouse gas emissions; carbon neutrality


climate-speak

In global climate-speak, terms like 'scenario', 'impact', 'vulnerability', 'irreversible', 'mitigation', 'adaptation' and 'adaptive capacity' have become common currency, verbal coins sometimes so worn that they almost lose meaning, even though they carry sinister messages about the future of humanity.

2011, V. Berridge, M. Gorsky, Environment, Health and History, page 264:

This is another example where climate-speak removes itself from common parlance and common sense.

2017, Paul Hawkin, Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, page vii:

The jargon used by climatologists and people talking about climate change.


UNFCCC

COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).

2019 December 2, Fiona Harvey, “Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world?”, in The Guardian:

w:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

(law, climate change) Initialism of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.


climate grief

Jennifer Atkinson, a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington in Bothell, will teach her second course on climate grief next semester. She offers the course to students in the environmental studies program to help prevent the burnout that can develop by confronting the problem daily.

2018 December 24, Avichai Scher, “'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change”, in NBC News:

Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”

2019 July 18, Victoria Knight, “‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health”, in Kaiser Health News:

I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.

2020 April 2, Panu Pihkala, “Climate grief: How we mourn a changing planet”, in BBC Future:


climate despair

A lot of people think we don't know how to solve climate change. So we could go from climate denial to climate despair.

2015 March 24, Jonathan Mingle, quoting Durwood Zaelke, Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 256:

It's impossible to know how many people like Ruttan Walker have experienced climate despair as a mental health crisis, but despair is all around us: in our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit of climate news, in pitch-black memes and jokes about human extinction, even in works of philosophy and literature.

2019 July 11, Mike Pearl, “'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life”, in Vice:

There appears to be a fine balance for educators between safeguarding the mental health of students who might feel climate despair on the one hand, and inspiring students to take personal climate action on the other by presenting the facts of this unprecedented and existential threat to humanity.

2020 May 1, Christie Nicole Godsmark, “Inspiring climate action without inducing climate despair”, in The Lancet Planetary Health, volume 4, number 5, →DOI:

Depression caused by fear of climate change.


climate arsonist

climate arsonist (plural climate arsonists)

He is a hard right wing climate arsonist or nihilist (denier is too kind) whose candidates are variously conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.

2019 August 21, Lloyd Alter, “In Canada, Saying Climate Change Is Real Could Get You in Trouble During the Election”, in Treehugger:

After all, once the public connects the dots between fossil fuel pollution, climate change disinformation, and the burning urgency of its consequences, Murdoch and his fossil fueled friends will be seen as the true arsonists: climate arsonists.

2020 January 14, Michael E. Mann, “When It Comes to the Australian Bushfires, Rupert Murdoch is an Arsonist”, in Newsweek:

If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?

2020 September 14, Peter Baker, Lisa Friedman, Thomas Kaplan, quoting Joe Biden, “As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’”, in The New York Times:

(derogatory) A person who intentionally accelerates climate change.


climate arson

The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel.

2019 April 9, Joe Cortright, “Highway to Hell: Climate denial at the TRB”, in City Observatory:

The administration’s gleeful climate arson and ‘let the weak perish’ coronavirus response in particular signal that their worldview is even darker than self-interest alone.

2020 September 9, Paul Waters-Smith, “Trump’s Corrosive Values Will Spread”, in Current Affairs:

(derogatory) Intentional acceleration of climate change.


climaticida

it-adj

climaticida (masculine plural climaticidi, feminine plural climaticide)

climaticidi (masculine plural)
climaticide (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French climaticide. By surface analysis, clima (“climate”) + -cida.

surf

(neologism) that contributes negatively to climate change


klimastabil

de-adj

klimastabil (strong nominative masculine singular klimastabiler, comparative klimastabiler, superlative am klimastabilsten)

klimastabiler (masculine nominative singular strong)
klimastabiler (comparative)
am klimastabilsten (superlative)
klimastabil (masculine predicative singular)
klimastabil (feminine predicative singular)
klimastabil (neuter predicative singular)
klimastabil (plural predicative)
klimastabiler (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabile (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabiles (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabile (nominative plural strong without-article)
klimastabilen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabiler (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
klimastabilen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabiler (genitive plural strong without-article)
klimastabilem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabiler (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
klimastabilem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabilen (dative plural strong without-article)
klimastabilen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabile (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
klimastabiles (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabile (accusative plural strong without-article)
der klimastabile (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die klimastabile (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das klimastabile (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die klimastabilen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des klimastabilen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der klimastabilen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des klimastabilen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der klimastabilen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem klimastabilen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der klimastabilen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem klimastabilen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den klimastabilen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den klimastabilen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die klimastabile (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das klimastabile (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die klimastabilen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein klimastabiler (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine klimastabile (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein klimastabiles (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
klimastabilen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine klimastabilen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines klimastabilen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer klimastabilen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines klimastabilen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabilen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner klimastabilen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem klimastabilen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer klimastabilen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem klimastabilen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabilen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen klimastabilen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen klimastabilen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine klimastabile (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein klimastabiles (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabilen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine klimastabilen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
klimastabiler (comparative masculine predicative singular)
klimastabiler (comparative feminine predicative singular)
klimastabiler (comparative neuter predicative singular)
klimastabiler (comparative plural predicative)
klimastabilerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabilere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabileres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
klimastabilere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
klimastabileren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabilerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
klimastabileren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabilerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
klimastabilerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabilerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
klimastabilerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabileren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
klimastabileren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
klimastabilere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
klimastabileres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
klimastabilere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der klimastabilere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die klimastabilere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das klimastabilere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die klimastabileren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des klimastabileren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der klimastabileren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des klimastabileren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der klimastabileren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem klimastabileren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der klimastabileren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem klimastabileren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den klimastabileren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den klimastabileren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die klimastabilere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das klimastabilere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die klimastabileren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein klimastabilerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine klimastabilere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein klimastabileres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
klimastabileren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine klimastabileren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines klimastabileren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer klimastabileren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines klimastabileren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabileren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner klimastabileren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem klimastabileren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer klimastabileren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem klimastabileren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabileren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen klimastabileren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen klimastabileren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine klimastabilere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein klimastabileres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
klimastabileren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine klimastabileren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am klimastabilsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am klimastabilsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am klimastabilsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am klimastabilsten (plural predicative superlative)
klimastabilster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
klimastabilste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der klimastabilste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die klimastabilste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das klimastabilste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die klimastabilsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des klimastabilsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der klimastabilsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des klimastabilsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der klimastabilsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem klimastabilsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der klimastabilsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem klimastabilsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den klimastabilsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den klimastabilsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die klimastabilste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das klimastabilste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die klimastabilsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein klimastabilster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine klimastabilste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein klimastabilstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
klimastabilsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine klimastabilsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines klimastabilsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer klimastabilsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines klimastabilsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
klimastabilsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner klimastabilsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem klimastabilsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer klimastabilsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem klimastabilsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
klimastabilsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen klimastabilsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen klimastabilsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine klimastabilste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein klimastabilstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
klimastabilsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine klimastabilsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Deshalb müssen wir klimastabile Bäume pflanzen, CO2-Binder, Mitkämpfer beim Klimaschutz.

2019 September 10, Julia Klöckner, Rede der Bundesministerin für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Julia Klöckner, zum Haushaltsgesetz 2020 vor dem Deutschen Bundestag:


climate emergency

en-noun

climate emergency (countable and uncountable, plural climate emergencies)

→ German: Klimanotstand (calque)

The effects of the climate emergency are more evident than biodiversity loss, but still, society is failing to cut emissions, the paper argues. If people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies could match the gravity of the threat.

2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:

The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.


climate crisis

If you have any doubt, just look at what’s on: The Robert Blake trial. The Laci Peterson tragedy. […] And more importantly, notice what is not on: the global climate crisis, the nation’s fiscal catastrophe, the hollowing out of America’s industrial base, and a long list of other serious public questions that need to be addressed by the American people.

2005 October 14, Al Gore, “Al Gore Addresses We Media”, in We Media:

The climate crisis is not, in fact, a mystery or a riddle we haven’t yet solved due to insufficiently robust data sets. We know what it would take, but it’s not a quick fix – it’s a paradigm shift.

2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

“The urgency of taking action against the climate crisis has prompted us to bring the first climate lawsuit in Italy against the country’s largest energy company,” said Matteo Ceruti, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.

2023 May 9, Stella Levantesi, “Italian oil firm Eni faces lawsuit alleging early knowledge of climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Gloninger’s experience is all too common among meteorologists across the country who are encountering reactions from viewers as they tie the climate crisis to extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes and floods in their local weather reports.

2023 July 9, “‘You should have seen this note’: US meteorologists harassed for reporting on climate crisis”, in The Guardian, sourced from AP, →ISSN:

He said that with the world facing a climate crisis, "it is up to those at the forefront of our industry - like Network Rail - to lead by example".

2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:

The climate crisis remained an important concern for voters, Sciarini said, but “it has been supplanted by immediate worries over purchasing power, inflation and of course mass immigration, all of which were highlighted in the SVP’s campaign”.

2023 October 23, Jon Henley, “Switzerland’s populists promise ‘less political correctness’ after election win”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

climate emergency
climate emergency#English


climatism

From climate + -ism. Compare French climatisme.

In Indochina, this practice was rooted in various European and colonial (British India) practices. The transfer of the therapeutic and tourist uses of hydrotherapy and climatism responded to health and social demands. These uses progressively lost their medical aspect and became tourist practices.

2014, Aline Demay, “The Origin of Tourist Practices in Indochina (1856–1910)”, in Tourism and Colonization in Indochina (1898–1939), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:

(medicine, rare) The relocation of a person to a different climate for therapeutic or recreational purposes; climatotherapy.


ocean acidification

(climate change) The increase in acidity of oceanic waters, from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that increase dissolved carbon dioxide in seawater, which causes increased carbonic acid in ocean waters, lowering its pH level.


Doomsday Glacier

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is.

[2022 February 2, Ian Joughin, quotee, “Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ keeps scientists at bay with iceberg and sea ice”, in The Guardian:

Thwaites Glacier
Thwaites Glacier#English


klimaneutral

de-adj

klimaneutral (strong nominative masculine singular klimaneutraler, not comparable)

klimaneutraler (masculine nominative singular strong)

In den vergangenen zehn Jahren haben die Bundesregierungen viel zu wenig Sinnvolles getan, um das Wirtschaften und das Leben in Deutschland klimaneutral zu machen.

2017 November 6, Petra Pinzler, “Wir Großmäuler”, in Die Zeit:


Green New Deal

The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.

2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The claims are outlandish. The Green New Deal is, among other things, a plan to tightly regulate and upgrade the energy system so the United States gets 100 percent of its electricity from renewables in a decade.

2021 February 21, Naomi Klein, “Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US politics) A set of proposed public policy changes to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality.


klimafreundlich

klimafreundlich (strong nominative masculine singular klimafreundlicher, comparative klimafreundlicher, superlative am klimafreundlichsten)

klimafreundlicher (masculine nominative singular strong)
klimafreundlicher (comparative)
am klimafreundlichsten (superlative)

Klima + freundlich (“friendly”), modeled after umweltfreundlich etc.

Mit dem Nachtzug zwischen Paris und Nizza kommt man klimafreundlich an die Côte d’Azur.

2022 August 19, Jost Maurin, “taz-Serie Nachtzugkritik: Schlafen super, koten verboten”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

Wie schaffen wir es, gesund und klimafreundlich zu essen? [title]

2023 January 15, Maria Marquart, Alexander Bartel, “Wie schaffen wir es, gesund und klimafreundlich zu essen?”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:

Die Nachfrage nach klimafreundlichen Wärmepumpen ist im ersten Halbjahr 2023 drastisch eingebrochen.

2023 August 8, Anja Krüger, “Nachfrage für Wärmepumpen: Selbst schuld”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:


ആഗോളതാപനം

head

ആഗോളതാപനം • (āgōḷatāpanaṁ)

ml-noun

ആഗോളതാപനം • (āgōḷatāpanaṁ)

/äːɡoːɭɐt̪äːpɐnɐm/

Calque of English global warming; ആഗോള (āgōḷa) + താപനം (tāpanaṁ)

compound

ആഗോള (āgōḷa) + താപനം (tāpanaṁ)


klimaatneutraal

klimaatneutraal (adverbial positive predicative)
klimaatneutrale (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
klimaatneutraal (indefinite neuter positive singular)
klimaatneutrale (indefinite plural positive)
klimaatneutrale (definite positive)
klimaatneutraals (partitive positive)


climaticide

→ Italian: climaticida


Treibhausklima

de-noun

Treibhausklima n (strong, genitive Treibhausklimas, no plural)

Treibhausklimas (genitive)
Treibhausklima (nominative singular)
Treibhausklimas (genitive singular)
Treibhausklima (dative singular)
Treibhausklima (accusative singular)

Das Treibhausklima scheint nach menschlichem Ermessen fast irreversibel zu sein. Jedenfalls muss dieses Problem dringend erforscht werden.

2010 March 4, Guy Brasseur, quotee, “Im Treibhaus”, in Die Zeit:

greenhouse climate (climate that resembles the inside of a greenhouse, i.e. hot and humid)


Flugscham

Flugscham f (genitive Flugscham, no plural)

Flugscham (genitive)
Flugscham (nominative singular)
Flugscham (genitive singular)
Flugscham (dative singular)
Flugscham (accusative singular)

Calque of Swedish flygskam, Flug + Scham

Stichwort Flugscham: Vor allem in westlichen Ländern verschärfte sich die Diskussion darüber, wie man Flugreisen klimafreundlicher gestalten könnte.

2021 April 10, Stephan Lina, “Airbus: Flugzeuge werden kleiner und nachhaltiger”, in Bayerischer Rundfunk, archived from the original on 2021-04-11:


Klimaangst

Klimaangst f (genitive Klimaangst, plural Klimaängste)

Klimaangst (genitive)
Klimaängste (plural)
Klimaangst (nominative singular)
Klimaängste (definite nominative plural)
Klimaangst (genitive singular)
Klimaängste (definite genitive plural)
Klimaangst (dative singular)
Klimaängsten (dative definite plural)
Klimaangst (accusative singular)
Klimaängste (accusative definite plural)

Die beste Medizin gegen Klimaangst wäre eine konsequente Emissionsreduktion, die jedoch nicht erfolgt. Würde das passieren, würden mit Sicherheit Klimaängste in der Bevölkerung abnehmen.

2021 October 22, Aron Boks, quoting Lea Dohm, “Psychotherapeutin über Klimaangst: „Eine gesunde und normale Reaktion“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN: