global warming

Etymology
First attested in the 1950s. Came into common use in the mid-1970s with 's paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” and 's statement in 1976 that “a global warming up has started”.

Noun

 * 1) A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.

Usage notes

 * May be treated as a synonym of in informal contexts, particularly in regions where climate science is contested by political actors. This conflation is not widespread in scientific contexts, where it may be regarded as incorrect.
 * Some scientists and journalists prefer the term.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: اِحْتِرَار الْعَالَمِيّ
 * Armenian: գլոբալ տաքացում
 * Asturian: calentamientu global
 * Azerbaijani: qlobal istiləşmə
 * Bashkir: глобаль йылыныу
 * Basque: berotze globala
 * Belarusian: глабальнае пацяпленне
 * Bulgarian: глобално затопляне
 * Catalan: escalfament global
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 全球燒烙化
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: global opvarmning
 * Dutch: opwarming van de aarde,
 * Dzongkha: འཛམ་གླིང་དྲོད་འཕར
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: globaalne soojenemine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: quentamento global
 * Georgian: გლობალური დათბობა
 * German: globale Erwärmung,, Treibhausklima
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: התחממות עולמית
 * Hindi: ग्लोबल वार्मिंग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: heimshlýnun
 * Ido: globala varmesko
 * Indonesian: pemanasan global
 * Interlingua: calefaction global
 * Irish: téamh domhanda
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ғаламдық жылыну
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: глобалдык жылуулук
 * Latin: calefactio universalis
 * Latvian: globālā sasilšana
 * Lithuanian: visuotinis atšilimas
 * Luxembourgish: global Erwiermung
 * Macedonian: глобално затоплување
 * Malayalam: ആഗോളതാപനം
 * Marathi: जागतिक तापमानवाढ
 * Mongolian: дэлхийн дулаарал
 * Norman: caûff'thie globale
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: global oppvarming
 * Nynorsk: global oppvarming
 * Occitan: escalfament global
 * Persian: گرمایش زمین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aquecimento global
 * Punjabi: ਆਲਮੀ ਤਪਸ਼
 * Romanian: încălzire globală
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: blàthachadh na cruinne
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: globalno zatopljenje
 * Sinhalese: ගෝලීය තාපනය
 * Slovak: globálne otepľovanie
 * Slovene: globalno segrevanje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ongezeko la joto duniani
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: гармшавии глобалӣ
 * Tamil: புவி வெப்பநிலை அதிகரிப்பு
 * Telugu: ప్రపంచ కవోష్ణత, భూగోళ కవోష్ణత, గ్లోబల్ వార్మింగ్
 * Thai: ปรากฏการณ์โลกร้อน
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: global ýylylyk
 * Ukrainian: глоба́льне потеплі́ння
 * Urdu: عالمی حرارت
 * Vietnamese: ấm lên toàn cầu, nóng lên toàn cầu, hâm nóng toàn cầu
 * Yiddish: גלאָבאַלישער אָנהייצן, גלאָבאַלע אָנוואַרעמען