GLOBAL WARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does global warming mean? 

• GLOBAL WARMING (noun)
  The noun GLOBAL WARMING has 1 sense:

1. an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

  Familiarity information: GLOBAL WARMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOBAL WARMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("global warming" is a kind of...):

heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)

 Context examples 

According to the study, even if the world succeeds in limiting increase in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, 36 per cent of the glaciers will completely melt by 2100.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

The phenomenon, which is only just starting to be understood, is likely to change as global warming intensifies.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Beyond this natural change, human-caused global warming has hastened the speed of the retreat.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

The special report looks at the climate change scenario for Brazil and how coastal cities could be impacted by global warming.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

This is particularly significant in times of global warming, where there is an urgent need to breed more resilient crops.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

New research suggests water could have been able to exist thanks to a massive global warming event triggered by methane gas bursts.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When they leak into the air, they also contribute to global warming.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

Researchers say the accelerated ice loss is caused by a combination of global warming, as well as the North Atlantic oscillation, a periodic weather phenomenon that brings warmer air to western Greenland.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

The question of how much extra carbon dioxide trees can take up, given limitations of these other nutrients, is a critical uncertainty in predicting global warming.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Many Pacific Island countries and territories will lose 50-80 per cent of marine species by the end of the 21st century if climate change and global warming continue unchecked, reports a new study.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)