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Etymology

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First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s withWallace Smith Broecker's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?”[1] andMikhail Budyko's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”.

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Noun

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globalwarming (uncountable)

  1. Asustained increase in the averagetemperature of theEarth, sufficient to causeclimate change.
    Synonym:global heating
    Antonym:global cooling
    • 2004 May 17,Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, inTime‎[4], archived fromthe original on28 June 2011:
      As a movie,The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it'sglobal warming.
    • 2014,Elizabeth Kolbert,The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador,→ISBN, page150:
      In the popular imagination,global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this.[…] Butglobal warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics.
    • 2015 March 2, Ian Sample, “Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim”, inThe Guardian‎[5]:
      The study is one of the first to implicateglobal warming from human activities as one of the factors that played into the Syrian conflict which is estimated to have claimed more than 190,000 lives.
    • 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, inThe New York Times‎[6],→ISSN:
      The pope’s acceptance thatglobal warming is almost certainly man-made has irked the vocal minority with more skeptical views.
    • 2022 August 16, “Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study”, inFrance 24‎[7], archived fromthe original on16 August 2022‎[8]:
      The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due toglobal warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot".

Usage notes

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  • May be treated as a synonym ofclimate change in informal contexts, particularly in regions where climate science is contested by political actors. This conflation is not widespread in scientific contexts, where it may be regarded as incorrect.
  • Some scientists and journalists prefer the termglobal heating.[2][3][4]

Translations

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increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere to cause climate change

See also

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References

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  1. ^Wallace S. Broecker (8 August 1975), “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?”, inScience, volume189, number4201,→DOI
  2. ^Brigitte Nerlich (4 February 2014), “Global warming is dead, long live global heating?”, inUniversity of Nottingham‎[1]
  3. ^Jonathan Watts (13 December 2018), “Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist”, inThe Guardian‎[2]
  4. ^Damian Carrington (17 May 2019), “Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment”, inThe Guardian‎[3]

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