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global boiling

noun

Etymology

Coined by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July 2023.

Definitions

  1. A very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon…

    A very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.

    • “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
    • In the aftermath of global warming, concerns regarding the sustainability of natural resources have intensified due to global boiling (Arora and Mishra, 2023).
    • The mass bleaching is a relatively new phenomenon that's turned chronic in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as the era of global boiling.

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