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global warming

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate…

    A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.

    • 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's global warming.
    • The study is one of the first to implicate global 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA