climate emergency
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The effects of the climate emergency are more evident than biodiversity loss, but still, society is failing to cut emissions, the paper argues. If people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies could match the gravity of the threat."
- "Dozens of local areas have copied Carla's motion and declared climate emergencies including Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Bath."
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w:public health emergency