climate change

Noun

 * 1) Natural large-scale and long-term change in the 's climatic system, as brought about by.
 * 2) Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the 's climatic system produced by ; anthropogenic climate change.

Usage notes

 * May be treated (in the sense “anthropogenic climate change”) as a synonym of in informal contexts, particularly in regions where climate science is contested by political actors. This conflation is not widespread in scientific contexts, where it may be regarded as incorrect.
 * Some newspapers and journalists now prefer the terms, , or.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَغَيُّر اَلْمُنَاخ
 * Armenian: կլիմայի փոփոխություն
 * Basque:
 * Bengali: জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন
 * Bulgarian: измене́ние на кли́мата
 * Catalan: canvi climàtic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  氣候改變, 氣候轉變, 氣候變遷
 * Czech: klimatické změny
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, klimaatwijziging
 * Dzongkha: འཛམ་གླིང་དྲོད་འཕར
 * Esperanto: klimata ŝanĝo, ŝanĝo de klimato
 * Estonian: kliimamuutus
 * Faroese: veðurlagsbroytingar
 * Finnish:
 * French:, dérèglement climatique
 * German: Klimaveränderung,, Klimaänderung, Klimaentwicklung
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जलवायु परिवर्तन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: loftslagsbreytingar
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: athrú aeráide
 * Italian: cambiamento climatico, mutamento climatico
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: បំ​រ៉ែ​បំ​រួល​អាកាសធាតុ
 * Korean: 기후 변화(氣候變化)
 * Latin: climatis mutatio
 * Latvian: klimata maiņa
 * Lithuanian: klimato kaita
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klimaendring, klimaforandring
 * Nynorsk: klimaendring, klimaforandring
 * Occitan: cambiament climatic
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: abaate aanji ani
 * Persian:
 * Polish: zmiany klimatu
 * Portuguese: mudança climática
 * Romanian: schimbare climatică
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: atharrachadh aimsir, atharrachadh na gnàth-shìde
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagbabago ng klima
 * Tamil: பருவநிலை மாற்றம்
 * Telugu: శీతోష్ణస్థితి మార్పు
 * Thai: การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, การเปลี่ยนแปลงภูมิอากาศ
 * Turkish: iklim değişikliği
 * Ukrainian: змі́на кли́мату
 * Urdu: موسمیاتی تبدیلی
 * Vietnamese: biến đổi khí hậu, thay đổi khí hậu
 * Welsh: newid hinsawdd