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CLIMATE CHANGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A change in the world's climate
Synonyms:
climate change; global climate change
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("climate change" is a kind of...):
temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)
Context examples:
The role of climate change in the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is somewhat controversial, partly because previous records are limited to qualitative reconstructions, for example whether conditions were wetter or drier.
(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)
Such dust emissions from the Southern Hemisphere have been relatively low, but reductions in vegetation cover due to land use or climate change may allow new sources like the Kalahari to emerge.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
"Studies in the past have looked at whether you get more or fewer blocking events with climate change," Hassanzadeh said.
(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)
These record setting years concern those who see this as a sure sign that climate change is happening at a quickened pace.
(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)
Climate change affects the hydrological regime in the Amazon, which affects fish reproduction and production of stocks in the floodplains.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
Ancient climate change and ancient human impacts are important for understanding why and how species became distributed the way we see them today.
(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)
Coral reefs, on which 25 per cent of the world’s fish species depend at some stage in their life-cycles, are similarly threatened by warming and acidification of the seas as result of climate change.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
After Mills and his students published a series of papers describing the snowshoe hare coat color mismatch, its effect on survival, and how it is likely to increase under climate change, they turned their attention to a global perspective.
(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)
Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
Deep in the waterlogged peat of salt marshes, carbon is stored at much greater rates than in land ecosystems, serving as an offset to climate change caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) build-up in the atmosphere.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
