Climate vs Paleoclimatic - What's the difference?
climate | paleoclimatic |
(obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
(obsolete) A region of the Earth.
The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
(figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
(poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
* 1610 , , V. i. 169:
Of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past
*{{quote-book, 1995, Climate Research Committee, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-century Time Scales
, passage= Detecting the enhanced greenhouse effect has a strong parallel in trying to interpret the paleoclimatic record.}}
As a noun climate
is (obsolete) an area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.As a verb climate
is (poetic|obsolete) to dwell.As an adjective paleoclimatic is
of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past.climate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate .
citation
Derived terms
* acclimate * acclimatise, acclimatize * climate change * political climateVerb
(climat)- The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!
External links
* * *Anagrams
* ----paleoclimatic
English
Alternative forms
*palaeoclimaticAdjective
(-)citation