global warming

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change. uncountable
    — As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming.

词源

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”.
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