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.