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Thermageddon

Thermageddon proper noun: a proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.

Proper noun

Thermageddon

  1. A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
    • Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so.2010, Alastair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197

Origin of Thermageddon

Coined by Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter in his 2003 book, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, from thermal + -geddon (after Armageddon (“the end of the world”)).

Questions about Thermageddon

What does Thermageddon mean?
Thermageddon means a proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
What part of speech is Thermageddon?
Thermageddon is a proper noun.

Words near Thermageddon in the dictionary

  1. Therma
  2. thermae
  3. Thermaean
  4. Thermaean Gulf
  5. thermaesthesia
  6. Thermageddon
  7. Thermaic
  8. Thermaic Gulf
  9. thermal
  10. thermal analyses
  11. thermal analysis

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