Global warming is the slow heating of the whole planet by trapped gases. Cause global warming, limit global warming, the effects of global warming.
Climate change is now the commoner term, because warming is only part of what changes — rainfall, storms and sea level all shift too. The mechanism has been understood since the nineteenth century. The phrase came into general use after a paper by Wallace Broecker in 1975.
1phraseglobal warmingThe heating of the planet by trapped gases.
“Scientists say global warming is making heatwaves more common.”
global warming is a change in climate.
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The phrase spread after Wallace Broecker's 1975 paper asking whether the world was on the brink of a pronounced global warming.
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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