global heating

noun

Global warming.

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Meanings

nounglobal heating (uncountable)
  1. uncountableGlobal warming.

    A continuation of present trends in the emission of CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases is expected to result in additional global heating of at least 2° by the year 2030.

    1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press, →ISBN, page 5
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    […] 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 […]

    2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92

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global warming
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