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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

But new findings based on sediment records stretching back 3,300 years suggest the story may be more complicated than a simple climate crisis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

The Green Party urged more focus on "our basic humanity" and a wider look at issues driving immigration to the UK, including war, poverty and the climate crisis.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

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 • Mar. 16, 2026

In a very eerie Hitchcock-like episode, the Frenchman returns to remind Boone of his critical part in the climate crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

Like the climate crisis or the crisis of democratic legitimacy, the affordability crisis has become an umbrella term for countless loosely connected phenomena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025