GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does global climate change mean? 

• GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (noun)
  The noun GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE has 1 sense:

1. a change in the world's climate

  Familiarity information: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the world's climate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

climate change; global climate change

Hypernyms ("global climate change" is a kind of...):

temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)

 Context examples 

But since this study looks at the past thirty-five years, it's not guaranteed that as the atmosphere continues to evolve with global climate change that OH levels will continue to recycle in the same way into the future.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)