Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of climate-speak.
This is “climatespeak” for stating that no changes in hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, tornadoes, and the like have been observed.
2002, Ronald Bailey, Global Warming and Other Eco-myths2 more examples
The Kyoto Protocol proposes other issues, such as adaptation, complementarity, capacity-building and other climatespeak that would boggle people not in the know.
2000, Indigenous Perspectives, page 59In the broadest sense, most think of two types of responses to catastrophic climate change: mitigation, climatespeak for reducing pollution that is causing the problem in the first place; and adaptation, rolling with the punches and adjusting to live with rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and extreme events.
2011, Gernot Wagner, But Will the Planet Notice?, page 44
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climatespeak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/climatespeak
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