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  • noun geology The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time

Etymologies

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From paleo- +‎ climate.

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  • I’m all for the paleoclimate

    And ingenious ways that they time it,

    But I’ve an objection

    To this shrewd projection:

    It’s a damnable challenge to rhyme it.

    April 28, 2019