New York Times: So what does climate change mean, exactly?
The question is not an existential one for the Department of Defense; it is a matter of careful and literal consideration.
The department recently decided that the standard Websters definition of climate change didnt quite meet its needs. So it added its own version to its homegrown dictionary, the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
Heres how it now defines climate change:
Variations in average weather...