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global heating

global heating noun: global warming.

Noun

global heating (uncountable)

  1. Global 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
    • […] 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

Questions about global heating

What does global heating mean?
Global heating means global warming.
What part of speech is global heating?
Global heating is a noun.

Words near global heating in the dictionary

  1. global empire
  2. global empires
  3. global etymologies
  4. global etymology
  5. global governance
  6. global heating
  7. global hectare
  8. global hectares
  9. global hoax
  10. global illumination
  11. global image

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