global heating

English

global heating (uncountable)

Global warming.
- 1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press, →ISBN, page 5:
  A continuation of present trends in the emission of CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases is expected to result in additional global heating of at least 2° by the year 2030.
- 2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92:
  […] the popular term for the human influence on global climate is “global warming,” although it really means global heating, of which the observed global temperature increase is only one consequence […]

Technically more correct than global warming and increasingly used to emphasize the scale of the threat.^[1]^[2]

^ Jonathan Watts (2018 December 13) “Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist”, in The Guardian‎^[1]
^ Damian Carrington (2019 May 17) “Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment”, in The Guardian‎^[2]