Meanings
plural warmists
- derogatorygovernmentA person who believes that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.
These elites “understand the real significance of climate change better than most of the ‘warmists’ in the political centre, the ones who are still insisting that the response can be gradual and painless and that we don’t need to go to war with anybody…
2014 September 22, John Gray, quoting Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate review – Naomi Klein’s powerful and urgent polemic”, in The GuardianSynonyms: global warmist · Antonyms: climate denier, climate denialist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who believes that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.
Origin
Translations
French réchauffiste
- réchauffistebeliever in global warming caused by human activity
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