Thermageddon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”)).
Proper noun
[edit]Thermageddon
- A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
- 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:
- 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.