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| Domain | Definition |
Energy | A popular term used to describe the increase in average global temperatures due to the greenhouse effect. (references) |
Science | An increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. Scientists generally agree that the Earth's surface has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past 140 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently concluded that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing an increase in the Earth's surface temperature and that increased concentrations of sulfate aerosols have led to relative cooling in some regions, generally over and downwind of heavily industrialized areas. Also see Climate Change and Enhanced Greenhouse Effect. (references) |
| An increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface, which occurs following an increase in greenhouse gases. (references) | |
Weather | The progressive gradual rise of the earth's surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. An increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. See climate change, greenhouse effect, enhanced greenhouse effect, radiative forcing. (references) |
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Crosswords: GLOBAL WARMING |
| Specialty definitions using "GLOBAL WARMING": Carbon dioxide equivalent, Carbon Equivalent, Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System ♦ Econet, enhanced greenhouse effect, ENSO ♦ greenhouse gas ♦ Hydrofluorocarbons ♦ Perfluorocarbons ♦ Sulfur Hexafluoride. (references) |
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Screenplays | These humans are very touchy about this global warming thing. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon) I'm glad global warming never happened. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) ? This whole ice age thing is getting old. You know what I could go for? A global warming! (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The CCL is part of the government's strategy to tackle global warming. (references) | |
Economic History | Maldives | Global warming and sea level rise could threaten the very existence of the Maldives. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | You're not responsible for global warming. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But our most fateful new challenge is the threat of global warming. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "GLOBAL WARMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | إرتفاع درجة حرارة الكرة الأرضية. (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 全球氣候升溫 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 地球温暖化 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ちきゅうお" "か. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | obalglay armingway | ||||
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"GLOBAL WARMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: globla warming, globle warming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-g-i-l-l-m-n-o-r-w" | |
-3 letters: gambolling. | |
-4 letters: angiogram, gamboling. | |
-5 letters: abnormal, airwoman, alarming, allowing, balmoral, baronial, brawling, gambling, ganglial, gangliar, garbling, gloaming, growling, laboring, magnolia, manorial, marbling, marginal, morainal, rambling, wambling, warbling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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