global climate change

1. 1.

   a change in the world's climate

   Synonymsclimate change

   Broadertemperature change

Questions about global climate change

What does global climate change mean?

global climate change means "a change in the world's climate".

What is another word for global climate change?

Close synonyms include climate change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is global climate change a common word?

global climate change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.