global warming

== English == === Etymology === 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”. === Pronunciation === === Noun === global warming (uncountable) A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change. Synonym: global heating Antonym: global cooling ==== Usage notes ==== May be treated as a synonym of climate change in informal contexts, particularly in regions where climate science is contested by political actors. This conflation is not widespread in scientific contexts, where it may be regarded as incorrect. Some scientists and journalists prefer the term global heating. ==== Translations ==== === See also === climate change greenhouse effect greenhouse gas === References === === Further reading === global warming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia