global heating
English
editNoun
edit- Global warming.
- 2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92:
- […] the popular term for the human influence on global climate is “global warming,” although it really means global heating, of which the observed global temperature increase is only one consequence […]
Usage notes
editTechnically more correct than global warming and increasingly used to emphasize the scale of the threat.[1][2]
References
editFurther reading
edit- global warming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia