warmist

English

Etymology

warm +‎ -ist.

Noun

warmist (plural warmists)

1. (politics, chiefly derogatory) A person who believes that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.

   Synonym: global warmist

   Antonyms: climate denier, climate denialist

   • 2014 September 22, John Gray, quoting Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate review – Naomi Klein’s powerful and urgent polemic”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     These elites “understand the real significance of climate change better than most of the ‘warmists’ in the political centre, the ones who are still insisting that the response can be gradual and painless and that we don’t need to go to war with anybody…

Translations

believer in global warming caused by human activity

• French: réchauffiste (fr) m or f