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global weirding

global weirding noun: the belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense.

Noun

global weirding (uncountable)

  1. The belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense.
    • You may see the highest zone numbers (14 or 15) on the label of that tropical banana plant you bought. Global weirding or no, if you live anywhere other than South Florida, you're still going to have to put it in your glass conservatory for the winter.2002 November 7, Anne Raver, “Bananas in the Backyard”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Remember: climate change means “global weirding,” not just global warming.2008 August 7, Thomas L. Friedman, “The language of global weirding”, in The Seattle Times, retrieved 22 Jul 2021

Origin of global weirding

A play on global warming, popularized by Thomas Friedman.

Questions about global weirding

What does global weirding mean?
Global weirding means the belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense.
What part of speech is global weirding?
Global weirding is a noun.

Words near global weirding in the dictionary

  1. global studies
  2. global village
  3. global villages
  4. global warming
  5. global warmist
  6. global weirding
  7. global workspace theory
  8. global-wide
  9. GLOBALCIT
  10. globalisation
  11. globalisationism

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