global warming

English

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”.

Noun

global warming (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: global heating

   Antonym: global cooling

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 150:

     In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this. […] But global warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics.

Usage notes

• May be treated as a synonym of climate change in informal contexts, particularly in regions where climate science is contested by political actors. This conflation is not widespread in scientific contexts, where it may be regarded as incorrect.
• Some scientists and journalists prefer the term global heating.

Translations

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

• Arabic: اِحْتِرَار الْعَالَمِيّ m (iḥtirār al-ʕālamiyy)
• Armenian: գլոբալ տաքացում (global takʻacʻum)
• Belarusian: глабальные пацяпленне n (hlabalʹnyje pacjapljennje)
• Bulgarian: глобално затопляне n (globalno zatopljane)
• Catalan: escalfament global m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全球變暖／全球变暖 (zh) (quánqiú biànnuǎn), 全球变暖 (zh) (quánqiú biànnuǎn), 全球暖化 (zh) (quánqiú nuǎnhuà)

  Min Nan: 全球燒烙化／全球烧烙化, 全球烧烙化 (choân-kiû sio-lo̍h-hoà)

• Czech: globální oteplování (cs)
• Danish: global opvarmning
• Dutch: opwarming van de aarde f
• Esperanto: tutmonda varmiĝo
• Estonian: globaalne soojenemine
• Finnish: ilmaston lämpeneminen (fi)
• French: réchauffement climatique (fr) m
• Galician: quentamento global m
• Georgian: გლობალური დათბობა (globaluri datboba)
• German: globale Erwärmung f, Erderwärmung (de) f, Treibhausklima n
• Greek: παγκόσμια θέρμανση f (pagkósmia thérmansi)
• Hebrew: התחממות עולמית pl
• Hindi: ग्लोबल वार्मिंग (global vārmiṅg)
• Hungarian: globális felmelegedés (hu)
• Icelandic: heimshlýnun f
• Italian: riscaldamento globale (it) m
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• Japanese: 地球温暖化 (ja) (ちきゅうおんだんか, chikyū-ondanka)
• Korean: 지구 온난화 (ko) (jigu onnanhwa) (地球溫暖化 (ko))
• Latin: calefactio universalis f
• Norman: caûff'thie globale f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: global oppvarming m or f

  Nynorsk: global oppvarming f

• Occitan: escalfament global m
• Persian: گرمایش زمین (garmâyeš-e zamin)
• Polish: globalne ocieplenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aquecimento global m
• Romanian: încălzire globală f
• Russian: глоба́льное потепле́ние (ru) n (globálʹnoje poteplénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: blàthachadh na cruinne m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: globalno zatopljenje n

• Slovak: globálne otepľovanie n
• Spanish: calentamiento global (es) m
• Swedish: global uppvärmning (sv) c
• Tamil: புவி வெப்பநிலை அதிகரிப்பு (puvi veppanilai atikarippu)
• Thai: ปรากฏการณ์โลกร้อน
• Turkish: küresel ısınma (tr)
• Vietnamese: ấm lên toàn cầu, nóng lên toàn cầu, hâm nóng toàn cầu
• Yiddish: גלאָבאַלישער אָנהייצן (globalisher onheytsn), גלאָבאַלע אָנוואַרעמען (globale onvaremen)

See also

• climate change
• greenhouse effect
• greenhouse gas

Further reading

• global warming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia