climate breakdown

[ klahy-mit breyk-doun ]

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noun

Climatology.

the collective effects of harmful and potentially irreversible trends in climate, specifically those resulting from unchecked global warming:
In September 2023, the United Nations announced that “climate breakdown has begun.”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of climate breakdown¹

First recorded in 2000–05

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Writing in the Observer, Miliband warned that an anti-net zero agenda would not only risk "climate breakdown" but "forfeit the clean energy jobs of the future".

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Streeting did not halt his speech, and the woman was ushered from the hall as she continued to warn about "climate breakdown".

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Last week United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the recent run of temperature records as "climate breakdown".

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Last week UN chief António Guterres described the recent run of temperature records as "climate breakdown".

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Any food produced here is increasingly vulnerable to climate breakdown, partly due to poor soils caused by chemical-intensive monocropping.

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