Klimawandel
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Klima (“climate”) + Wandel (“transformation, change”)
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]Klimawandel m (strong, genitive Klimawandels, plural Klimawandel)
- climate change (any large-scale, long-term climate change)
- Synonym: Klimaveränderung
- (particularly) climate change (anthropogenic changes since the onset of the industrialization)
- Synonyms: Klimaveränderung; (in colloquial usage) Klimaerwärmung
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 2/2010, page 125:
- Kohlendioxid trägt durch seine Menge mehr als jedes andere Treibhausgas zum Klimawandel bei, doch seine Konzentration in der Luft beträgt weniger als 0,04 Prozent.
- Carbon dioxide contributes by its amount more than any other greenhouse gas to climate change, but its concentration in the air is less than 0.04 percent.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Klimawandel [masculine, strong]
Hyponyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Klimawandel” in Duden online
- “Klimawandel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Klimawandel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
