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climate change

 
pronunciation:
klaI miht cheInj
part of speech: noun
definition 1: any significant change in Earth's climate capable of causing cataclysmic events such as the mass extinction of species.
definition 2: a significant change in global and regional climate patterns that is of current concern and is associated with an increase in carbon dioxide and certain other gases in Earth's atmosphere which contribute to global warming.