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climate change
climate change n. an alteration in the regional or global climate; esp. the change in global climate patterns increasingly apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and linked largely with increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activity; cf. global warming n.
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1854 U.S. Mag. Sci., Arts, Manuf. 15 Dec. 234/3 Some have ascribed these climate changes to agriculture—the cutting down the dense forests—the exposure of the upturned soil to the summer sun, and the draining of the great marshes.
1873 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 25 Apr. There are no thermometric records sufficiently comprehensive to afford inferential conclusions as to climate change in the West.
1957 Hammond (Indiana) Times 6 Nov. b2/1 This continued pouring forth of waste gases may upset the rather delicate carbon dioxide balance in the earth's general atmosphere and..a large scale global warming, with radical climate changes may result.
1983 Current Anthropol. 24 589/1 Palaeoclimatological data will be perused for the information they provide about climate change during the Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vii. 191 Was the ‘Summer of '88’ a real example of climate change in the making or simply a media event?
2021 Financial Express (New Delhi) (Electronic ed.) 28 July Forests need to be actively used as carbon sinks to address climate change.
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