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GLOBAL WARMING
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I. (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:
A separate World Bank study has said slashing pollution must be a priority, saying that solving this problem would lead to solutions to other crises, including global warming and malnutrition.
(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)
Andréa Taschetto, from University of New South Wales’ Climate Change Research Centre, tells SciDev.Net, Previous studies have suggested that MJO rainfall and circulation will change under global warming.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
Making it cheaper to do so could help the global community remove the 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of carbon necessary to avoid catastrophic global warming by mid-century.
(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A new study shows that deaths that result from extreme weather in Europe could increase 50 times by the end of the century if the effects of global warming are not curbed.
(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)
Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic — formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warming by its extreme environment — will thaw enough to become a permanent source of carbon to the atmosphere in this century, with the peak transition occurring in 40 to 60 years, according to a new NASA-led study.
(Far Northern Permafrost May Unleash Carbon Within Decades, NASA)
Researchers at Penn State and other institutions discovered a drastic drop in organic material preserved in sections of core samples from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, a global warming event 55.5 million years ago that's considered the best analog for modern climate change.
(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)
In addition, the gases currently used in the vast majority of refrigerators and air conditioners are toxic, highly flammable greenhouse gases that only add to the problem of global warming when they leak into the air.
(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)
Unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency and appropriate adaptation measures are taken, about 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of this century, the report said.
(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)
