climatespeak

English

Noun

climatespeak (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of climate-speak
    • 2000, Indigenous Perspectives, page 59:
      The Kyoto Protocol proposes other issues, such as adaptation, complementarity, capacity-building and other climatespeak that would boggle people not in the know.
    • 2002, Ronald Bailey, Global Warming and Other Eco-myths:
      This is “climatespeak” for stating that no changes in hurricanes, thunderstorms, hail, floods, tornadoes, and the like have been observed.
    • 2011, Gernot Wagner, But Will the Planet Notice?, page 44:
      In 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 exteme events.
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