B2noun · uncountable · rare

global warming

глобальне потепління

глобальное потепление

globale Erwärmung, Erderwärmung

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

Meaning

1 senses

(uncountable)A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.
globale Erwärmung, Erderwärmung
глоба́льное потепле́ниеglobálʹnoje poteplénije
глоба́льне потеплі́нняhlobálʹne poteplínnja
an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

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

Русский

By meaning 1

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

Deutsch

By meaning 1

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

Origin

First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with Wallace Smith Broe

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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