Etymograph

English

Glaciergate

From glacier + -gate.

Formed from glacier + -gate

Latin glaciēs ‘ice’

Vulgar Latin *glaciārium

Franco-Provençal gllaciér

French glacier

English glacier

Today it means

name A 2010 controversy resulting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly claiming in a 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas would melt by 2035.

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