climatastrophe

plural climatastrophes

1. countableuncountableA natural catastrophe largely or solely the result of climate chaos.

   “We haven't seen temperatures spike like this in a thousand years, since the Cimatastrophe!”

   2025 September 15, Maiya Williams, “The World is Hot Enough” (7:16 from the start), in Futurama, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Professor Farnsworth (Billy West)

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   His testimony at a public hearing was a harbinger of uglier epithets to come. In 2009 the climatastrophe meme started to unravel. A whistle blower inside the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (which pioneered climate studies under deservedly famous Professor Hubert Lamb) became so offended by its hidden corruption of climate science that he/she released the infamous Climategate emails.

   2014 October 14, Rud Istvan, Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN

   This presents yet more compelling evidence that an eemergency WW2-scale program is necessary to have any reasonable chance to escape climatastrophe.

   2017 August 22, Herb Simmens, “Current Climate Terms”, in A Climate Vocabulary of the Future, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN, page 62