climate crisis

American  

[klahy-mit krahy-sis] / ˈklaɪ mɪt ˌkraɪ sɪs /

noun

Climatology.

1. a critical situation in which long-term change in the earth’s climate has severe adverse effects on the environment, necessitating immediate and bold countermeasures.

   Brewers are taking notice as the climate crisis decimates Europe’s barley crops.

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Etymology

Origin of climate crisis

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Whatever happened to the climate crisis?

From The Wall Street Journal

She is also the executive director of Oakland Institute, a policy think tank that says land rights, the climate crisis, international aid and equity are among its core issues.

From The Wall Street Journal

New York Attorney General Letitia James described the court's ruling as "a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis" in a social media post.

From BBC

Carbon capture is “tied for better or worse to the fossil-fuel industry,” while other fields are more heavily associated with “addressing the climate crisis,” said Anna Littlefield, a carbon-capture program manager at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines who previously worked as a geologist for Occidental and Anadarko Petroleum.

From MarketWatch

This effort has become even more urgent as the world confronts the climate crisis and looks for alternatives to fossil fuels.

From Science Daily