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Noun: climate change
  1. A change in the world's climate
    - global climate change
     
  2. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
    - global warming, global heating

Derived forms: climate changes

Type of: heating, temperature change, warming

Encyclopedia: Climate change, industry and society

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