climatespeak

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The Kyoto Protocol proposes other issues, such as adaptation, complementarity, capacity-building and other climatespeak that would boggle people not in the know⟳.”

“This is “climatespeak” for stating that no changes in hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, tornadoes, and the like⟳ have⟳ been observed.”

“In the broadest sense⟳, most think⟳ of two types of responses to catastrophic climate change⟳: mitigation, climatespeak for reducing pollution that is causing the problem in the first place⟳; and adaptation, rolling with the punches and adjusting to live⟳ with rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and exteme events.”

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