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global boiling

global boiling noun: a very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.

Noun

global boiling (plural global boilings)

  1. (neologism) A very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.
    • “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”2023 July 27, Catherine Clifford, quoting António Guterres, “‘The era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN boss, as White House announces provisions to protect workers from extreme heat”, in NBC...
    • In the aftermath of global warming, concerns regarding the sustainability of natural resources have intensified due to global boiling (Arora and Mishra, 2023).2024 December, Sae Eun Lee, Kyu-Hye Lee, “Environmentally sustainable fashion and conspicuous behavior”, in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, →DOI, page 2

Examples of global boiling in a sentence

  • The mass bleaching is a relatively new phenomenon that's turned chronic in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as the era of global boiling.2025 March 25, “Reef allies plunge heart and soul into coral rescue”, in Sunday Age, Melbourne, page 28:
  • The term “global boiling” is now used to describe current climate change, as recent climate data highlight a significant departure from the conventional understanding of global warming.[2025 April 1, Yu Jung Sohn, Se‐Yeun Hwang, Haeyoung Lee, Subeen Jeon, Ji Young Park, Jaehyung Kim, Donghyuk Kim, Ki Jun Jeong, Sang Yup...

Forms of global boiling

pluralglobal boilings

Origin of global boiling

Coined by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July 2023.

Questions about global boiling

What does global boiling mean?
Global boiling means a very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming.
How do you use global boiling in a sentence?
The mass bleaching is a relatively new phenomenon that's turned chronic in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as the era of global boiling.
What part of speech is global boiling?
Global boiling is a noun.
What is the plural of global boiling?
The plural of global boiling is global boilings.

Words near global boiling in the dictionary

  1. gloats
  2. gloaty
  3. glob
  4. global
  5. global affairs
  6. global boiling
  7. global cities
  8. global city
  9. global cooling
  10. global coupling
  11. global couplings

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