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单词 global heating
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global heatingn.

Brit. /ˌɡləʊbl ˈhiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡloʊb(ə)l ˈhidɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: global adj., heating n.
Etymology: < global adj. + heating n.
An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, waters, and land surface; spec. the long-term gradual temperature increase occurring in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, becoming apparent from the late 20th century onwards, and linked to increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activity; = global warming n.Often used in preference to global warming to convey more emphatically the seriousness of climate change caused by human activity and the urgent need to address it.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > becoming hot or warm > increase in temperature > of the earth
global warming1957
global heating1959
1959 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 253 457 There may be appreciable transient local heating but the time average of the global heating is clearly negligible in view of the infrequency of strong auroras and of the minute fraction of the earth's surface they cover.
1977 E. Robinson in A. C. Stern Air Pollution II. (ed. 3) 51 If n2 is greater than 10-1, the effect [of an increase in aerosol concentration] would be global heating.
2006 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 17 Mar. 22 There are those—including..James Lovelock—who believe that global warming (Lovelock prefers to call it global heating) is a catastrophic threat that requires immediate and robust action.
2021 S. Adelman in I. Alogna et al. Climate Change Litigation xii. 271 Global heating is a term that better reflects the continuous increase in average global temperature than global warming.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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