global heating
noun1
Global warming.
- A continuation of present trends in the emission of CO₂ and the other greenhouse gases is expected to result in additional global heating of at least 2° by the year 2030.1989, Timothy Wirth, Challenge of Global Warming, Island Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- […] the popular term for the human influence on global climate is “global warming,” although it really means global heating, of which the observed global temperature increase is only one consequence […]2006, Donald Kennedy, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006–2007, Island Press, →ISBN, page 92: