Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase sufficient to cause climatic change.
Wiktionary
- n. A sustained increase in the average temperature of the earth, sufficient to cause climate change.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
Examples
“Mr. Swaminathan also appealed to the students to spread awareness among people on global warming and other environment related issues.”
“Cape Leeuwin station may also contribute to the monitoring of global warming through a CSIRO project to accurately measure the speed of sound in the Indian Ocean - and there by ocean temperature.”
“If global warming is a problem, Brand and his ex-friends own it.”
“THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.”
“At the sudden order of the Great Namechanger, global warming was iced and global climate change took its place.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Primarily the software was looking for soft spots in the ice – global warming indicators – but if it stumbled across other density incongruities, it was programmed to flag those as well.”
Deception Point
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘global warming’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 338 more...
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Things you are not allowed to question
A list of things that you are not allowed to question in public.
holocaust, democracy, authority, global warming, islam, jews, israel, morality, norms, charity, physicians, teens and 6 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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Public List: Signs of the Times
Words or phrases that are immediately understood now but would have seemed puzzling not too long ago.
Not to be confused with uselessness' Sign of the Times list.mysterious white ..., school shooting, global warming, culture wars, radical islam, car bombing, suicide bomber, bailout, political detainee, greenhouse gases, family values, social lubricant and 1 more...
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recycle
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recycle, world, future, carbon footprint, think, deforestation, global warming, dream, freedom, stop!, you, me and 6 more...
kewpid Yes, that's true. They actually describe different things, so they shouldn't be used interchangeably. Dec 10, 2007
chained_bear Actually, though I agree with your assessment of its sound, climate change is the more scientifically accurate of the two terms. Dec 9, 2007
kewpid Sounds a lot more urgent than the deliberately benign "climate change". Dec 9, 2007