climate breakdown

American  

[klahy-mit breyk-doun] / ˈklaɪ mɪt ˌbreɪk daʊn /

noun

Climatology.

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of climate breakdown

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said the report confirmed the picture painted in recent weeks by the fires and floods around the world - "that climate breakdown has already begun".

From BBC

"This is what BBC Bitesize is teaching our children about climate breakdown," the Guardian journalist tweeted.

From BBC

“In this era of climate breakdown and the extinction of species, it’s obviously easier to think of how it all could end than how it could become much, much better,” Bregman says.

From New York Times

Climate scientists warn that global heating needs to be kept well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aim for an increasingly ambitious 1.5C goal, to avoid the worst of climate breakdown.

From BBC

And she said science showed that the planet had less than a decade before the climate breakdown would go past the point of no return.

From BBC