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climate change
noun
a long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature: Melting glaciers imply that life in the Arctic is affected by climate change.
Origin:
1980-85
1980-85
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Climate change
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | climate change |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | any long-term significant change in the weather patterns of an area; also used figuratively |
| Example: | Climate change can be natural or caused by changes people have made to the land or atmosphere. |
Etymonline
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climate change
periodic modification of Earth's climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic factors within the Earth system
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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