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Apr 10, 2023 · The words we choose to describe climate change and the climate impacts around us make a difference. These words have evolved over time, reflecting the state of science behind them.
- What Is Global Warming and Greenhouse gases?
- Global Warming vs. Climate Change
- Crisis, Emergency, Breakdown, and Disaster
- Other Terms Around Climate Change
- How Do We Move Forward?
Climate change was first known to many of us as global warming, a phrase dating to the 1950s that indicates “a longterm rise in Earth’s average atmospheric temperature.” The idea that global warming exists and could be attributed to human behavior, however, was first put forward in 1896 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Over the next century, ...
Climate change is a term that better encompasses the myriad longterm changes to the climate that can be brought on by an increase in Earth’s average temperature. These effects include more heat waves and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt, but they also include extreme cold, droughts, floods, fires, and catastrophic storms.
In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on climate change that included many warnings about severe negative consequences that would result from the current rate of increasing global temperature. In response to this report, new terms would emerge in the following years that emphasized the urgency of climate ch...
We’ve identified some of the latest terms surrounding climate change to have on your radar. Learning these words is vital to understanding the issue of climate change as a whole.
The idea of climate change is scary and overwhelming to most people, but knowing the right words to use to describe what’s happening and potential ways to solve problems is a powerful tool in not only managing our collective anxiety—our solastalgia—about climate change, but also in starting discussions that could lead to meaningful action. As scien...
Nov 15, 2023 · In many ways this is an evolution of language that started at least as long ago as the Enlightenment. Adapting language to better capture attention and clarify the causes of catastrophes could galvanize climate action.
Nov 5, 2021 · But did you know that the language of climate change and sustainability—from “eco-anxiety” to “climate crisis”—is constantly evolving to reflect new realities and concerns? Some terms ...
- Trish Stewart
Aug 12, 2024 · Phrases like ‘climate crisis,’ ‘climate emergency’ or ‘climate justice’ might seem to escalate the urgency, but a large survey shows they don’t help and may actually hurt.
May 29, 2019 · Climate change isn't just affecting our planet, it's also shifting the language we use. There's even a Bureau of Linguistic Reality dedicated to keeping track of the phenomenon.
Aug 9, 2021 · The language adjustments represent huge advances in our scientific understanding of the global climate, thanks to decades of instrumental observation, discoveries of new data sources like ice ...
