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

If these internal combustion enginereed cars could be powered by carbon-neutral fuel, it would have a massive impact on the climate crisis.

From BBC

With the climate crisis, "the world rightly recognised that if you're going to solve the problem, you have to have scientific evidence, an understanding theory of what's going on", he said.

From Barron's

The chapter’s named co-authors are Jessica Wentz, a senior fellow at Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, which “develops legal techniques to combat the climate crisis and advance climate justice”; and Radley Horton, a professor at Columbia Climate School, where he has taught on subjects like climate hazards and extreme weather events.

From The Wall Street Journal

Food is one of the most direct ways we can have an impact on the climate crisis.

From Los Angeles Times

Ray says he chose apocalypse by water because it is the most likely result of an unchecked climate crisis, but the real villain of the piece is tribalism — the Rogues and the Crowns would rather make a bad situation worse by killing each other than unify in an attempt to solve larger problems.

From Los Angeles Times