Meanings
- A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so.
2010, Alastair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197
Origin
Coined by Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter in his 2003 book, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, from thermal + -geddon (after Armageddon (“the end of the world”)).
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Thermageddon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thermageddon
“Thermageddon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thermageddon. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Thermageddon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thermageddon.
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