Change of temperature gradually came to be considered more important, and by late 14c. the word was being used in the sense "a distinct region of the earth's surface considered with respect to weather." The sense shift to "combined results of weather associated with a region, characteristic ...
During Climate Week, Interface took ourClimate Take Back™commitment to many stages in New York and Chicago, sharing our ambitious mission, along with our desire, through product innovation and action, to drive significant carbon change in our business, as well as the entire built environment: ...
Privileging the well-being of other species over our own —by significantly reducing our use of highly polluting natural resources —may help to slow climate change, for example. This requires, however, a radical shift in our thinking, displacing the human from the centre of our preoccupations....
韦氏词典从2008年开始评选年度词汇,当年的年度词汇是“救助”。2019年度词汇是“他们/她们”,当时该词的搜索量增加了313%。 Dictionary.com has been in the game since 2010, when it went with “change”. Its word of the year in 2019 was “existential”, in a year that climate change, gun violen...
Nature Climate Change.Changes in ocean heat storage are important because the ocean absorbs more than 90 percent of the Earth's extra heat increase that is associated with global warming. The observed ocean and atmosphere warming is a result of continuing greenhouse gas emissions. Quantifying how ...
Eco-anxietythe chronic fear of environmental cataclysm that comes from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change and the associated concern for one’s future and that of next generations Hellaciousvery great, bad, or overwhelming ...
The state's average winter nighttime temperatures have warmed between four and seven degrees since 1950, according to a 2021 report from the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, while winter daytime temperatures have warmed between three and four degrees. Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 31...
The first records of the term come from 2016. Derived from the expression “to have one’s cake and eat it, too,” the term is especially associated withBrexitand Boris Johnson. ecofascism noun. a right-wing ideology that blames environmental harm mainly on poorer nations and on marginalized...
There is also associated with the term a sense of inevitability and ‘naturalness’ about it: in the order of things, there are the strong and the weak, the able and the disable, and the fortunate and the unfortunate. The etymological origins of the word, however, provide us with a hint...
In a world where “climate change” and “save the earth” are chanted and marched ad nauseum sometimes, we need to ignore the crazies and instead acknowledge that some of our environment is indeed threatened so why not use Christmas trees and wreaths as not only reminders of the Reason for...