Definition of "climatic" []

• Of or relating to climate. (adjective)
• Ecology Influenced by or resulting from the prevailing climate. (adjective)

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• "Its ability, though, to repopulate a small area all on its own is giving researchers in Australia great hope that plants will be far more durable in the face of long-term climatic change than they've thought in the past."
• "This may stem from the variability in climatic conditions and the practice of naming a particular disease as it manifested."
• "Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning."