global heating
noun [ U ] uk/ˌɡləʊ.bəl ˈhiː.tɪŋ/ us/ˌɡloʊ.bəl ˈhiː.t̬ɪŋ/
气候变热
an increase in world temperatures, especially the current increase caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space
In his book, he lays out the implications of global heating for life on Earth. 在他的书中，他阐述了全球升温对地球上生命的影响。
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- Is the Minister going to take responsibility for his government's delay on action over global heating?
- These people understand and accept the reality of global heating, but are too locked into the status quo to instigate the kind of responses required to meet it.
- Biofuels, plant-based gasoline substitutes, promise to ease global heating but threaten to push up food prices and damage tropical ecosystems.
- The Confederation of British Industry put out a report pledging to tackle global heating - "warming" is misleadingly gentle.
- The volcanic eruptions would have induced abrupt global heating, according to this theory.