Oxford Dictionaries names 'climate emergency' its word of the year 2019

Oxford Dictionaries has reportedly named 'climate emergency' as its word of year for 2019 furr defining it as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental dam resulting from it”. According to reported data of dictionary, us of word soared 10,796 per cent. term is most common compound involving “emergency”, reportedly occurring three times as often as next most-common, “health-emergency”.

Over 11,000 scientists from across world have also warned that planet is facing a 'climate emergency' and world should take immediate action to 'avert untold sufferings due to climate crisis'. A study published by a journal Bioscience cited an increase in human livestock population, meat production, world gross domestic product, air travel, fossil fuel consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions as factors that contribute to crisis. study was spearheed by ecologists Bill Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University along with a group of scientists from 153 countries. 

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Hundreds of cities, towns and even countries have declared “climate emergency” during 2019. selection panel reportedly said that in 2018 climate did t feature in top words but term as beaten words like 'climate crisis', 'climate action', 'climate denial', and 'extinction', which were on shortlist. Climate emergency has surpassed all of or s of emergency to become most written about emergency by a huge margin. Earlier, a report released by UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change described how global warming is alrey altering Earth's climate and ecosystems from magnifying heatwaves and droughts to super changing tropical cyclones. re is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leing to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and planetary climate system, may alrey have been reached or passed," says report. 

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