global warming
Meaning
A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.
Opposite of
global cooling
Synonyms
Translations
globale Erwärmung
riscaldamento globale
calentamiento global
küresel ısınma
παγκόσμια θέρμανση
réchauffement de la planète
escalfament global
opwarming van de aarde
Aquecimento Global aquecimento do climaEtymology
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”.
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