Climate change is arguably the most serious threat facing humanity today. In order to understand how humanity can manage this phenomenon for planetary health, it is essential to understand what it is. This aligns with a critical gap in the existing literature, that is, how different perceptions of climate change among learning facilitators (in this case, academics) can enable the creation of a critical consciousness framework that could support climate change education and contribute to climate change management. To this end, the study that underpins this paper set out to capture perceptions of climate change among a selection of academics at a local university in Cameroon. After a comprehensive analysis of the data, different views on the subject emerged, consistent with scientific, observational, and cultural definitions. (Marcellus Forh Mbah, more at nature.com)