global climate change
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- noun
- /ˈɡloʊbəl ˈklaɪmət ʧeɪndʒ/
- Specialized
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cambio climático global
- The effects of global climate change can be seen in rising sea levels and extreme weather events.
- impacts of global climate change
- effects of global climate change
- threat of global climate change
Create something that helps all of us overcome global climate change, OK.
- Create something that helps all of us overcome global climate change, OK.
- That's why we call it global climate change.
- I don't think I want the world to fry from global climate change, which is what we would have if we don't have any government regulation.
- That's what global climate change and the melting of Arctic ice really means.
Examples
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That's what global climate change and the melting of Arctic ice really means.
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Despite such difficulty, even the U.S. Congress has acknowledged the risk global climate change poses to national security.
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Create something that helps all of us overcome global climate change, OK.
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If you if you look at global climate change and global warming, you know, you could look at it as great opportunities, right?
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Responding to concerns about global climate change is complicated by two facts.
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The transcendent environmental issue for the future is likely to be the management of global climate change.
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Water resource managers now face concerns about the impacts that global climate change could have on water resources in some regions.
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Hydrologic changes are, thus, an integral part of global climate change.
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For example, a vast network of weather stations across the globe has proven vital in detecting global climate change.
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And the buildup of that CO2 in the atmosphere has been implicated in global climate change.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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2.8
A long change in the Earth's usual weather and temperature
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A gradual rise in Earth's average temperature caused mainly by burning coal, oil, and gas
How Local
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'global' (worldwide), 'climate' (long-term weather patterns) and 'change' (an alteration). This straightforward compositional noun phrase is cross-linguistically common and follows normal semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows the words would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Global climate change creates a simple picture: global means the 'whole world' and climate change means the usual 'weather' of the planet is slowly shifting because people burn oil and cut forests. That's why it means a big, long-lasting change in weather across the world.