global warming
词源说明
First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with Wallace Smith Broecker's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and Mikhail Budyko's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”.
释义
名词noun
- 1A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.