global weirding

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Definition of global weirding in English English dictionary

An alternative to global warming to reflect the belief that climate change causes or will cause various weather-related extremes, including both hot and cold weather, to become more intense

Hyphenation

glob·al weirding

Etymology

() A pun on the term "global warming", Thomas Friedman|Thomas Friedman]] of The New York Times|The New York Times]] is sometimes credited with coining the term "global weirding". Although he frequently promotes use of the term, he does not claim authorship explaining: 30px30px|rightI prefer the term 'global weirding,' coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, because the rise in average global temperature is going to lead to all sorts of crazy things — from hotter heat spells and droughts in some places, to colder cold spells and more violent storms, more intense flooding, forest fires and species loss in other places.