forbidden words: climate science

climate n. 1 The Virgin Islands have a mild climate. Retirees often move to a warm climate: usual weather, weather pattern, weather; wether region, weather zone. 2 After the revolution, the climate of the country remained tense:  general feeling, mood, atmosphere, disposition, frame of mine, attitude, spirit, tone, character, temper, quality, air, ambience.
◊ Word origin:Climate comes from Greek klima, region, hence the weather typical of a region.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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science n. 1 We studied several sciences in school. Chemistry is a science:  natural phenomena, empirical knowledge, organized knowledge, systematic knowledge; field of systematic inquiry. 2 We had the procedure down to a science. Boxing is called by its devotees the “sweet science”: art, technique, method, discipline; finished execution, skill, aptitude, acquirement, finesse, facility.
◊ Word origin: Science and scientific come from Latin scientia, knowledge. Also akin are our Latinate words conscience and conscious. 

“Science is the greatest antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” — Adam Smith

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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climate science n. The scientific study of Earth’s climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric condition during an extended to indefinite period of time; weather is the condition of the atmosphere during a relative brief period of time. The main topics of research are the study of climate variability, mechanisms of climate changes and modern climate change. This topic of study is regarded as part of the atmospheric sciences and a subdivision of physical geography, which is one of the Earth sciences. Climatology includes some aspects of oceanography and biogeochemistry.

The main methods employed by climatologists are the analysis of observations and modelling of the physical processes that determine climate. Short term weather forecasting can be interpreted in terms of knowledge of longer-term phenomena of climate, for instance climatic cycles such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), the Arctic oscillation (AO), the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). Climate models are used for a variety of purposes from studying the dynamics of the weather and climate system to predictions of future climate.

from — Wikipedia contributors. (2025d, April 13). Climatology – Wikipedia.

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example sentences: climate science

Some of the teachers were also caught out by the rapid advances in climate science.
The Guardian (2016)

He has repeatedly disparaged or dismissed climate science in the past.
The Guardian (2018)

Climate science may become a secondary fight.
The Guardian (2017)

The first is around whether people believe the climate science.
The Guardian (2019)

This will be a really big blow for climate science.
The Guardian (2022)

Researchers examined the work of 1,372 scientists who have made studies of climate science.
The Sun (2010)

It was the kind of admission that those who doubt climate science pounce on.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Second, it potentially contaminates any claim that climate science has been producing unbiased results.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)

All of us in the climate science community are climate sceptics.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

It is a vivid account, full of natural beauty and brutality, laced with polar history and climate science.
New Scientist (Humans) (2022)

from — Collins Dictionary, climate science