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Global climate change in the form of declining average temperatures.
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Global cooling — in general can refer to an overall cooling of the Earth. In this article it refers primarily to a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth s surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This… … Wikipedia
global cooling — the cooling of the atmosphere, or more properly the decrease over time in average annual global temperature. Reasons probably include a combination of reduced greenhouse gas content, orbit fluctuations reducing insolation and global dimming … Geography glossary
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global warming — an increase in the earth s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. [1975 80] * * * Potential increase in global average surface temperatures resulting from… … Universalium
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