global heating

English

Noun

global heating (uncountable)

  1. Global warming.
    • 1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press (→ISBN), page 5:
      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.
    • 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

Technically more correct than global warming and increasingly used to emphasize the scale of the threat.[1][2]

Further reading

References
  1. Jonathan Watts (2018-12-13), “Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist”, in The Guardian‎ (in English)
  2. Damian Carrington (2019-05-17), “Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment”, in The Guardian‎ (in English)
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