Antedating of "Global Warming"

[Baker, John]

        1971 _Science_ June 1912 (JSTOR) The scope of effects, however,
can roughly be compared:  For example, a global warming trend is a
"greater" effect than is the extinction of a species.

        Note that this 1971 article, like the 1975 article but in
contrast to the 1960 article, refers to global warming in the current
sense of an imminent environmental risk.

John Baker


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global warming (OED 1977)

1960 _Geografiska Annaler_ 42: 16 (JSTOR)  Careful balancing will be
required in the interpretation of the warmth of paleo-climates from one
region to another.  If performed successfully, such an interpretation
will distinguish redistribution of warmth over the planet from the more
primary change in the heat budget of the earth and its atmosphere which
results in true global warming or cooling.

1975 _Science_ Aug. 460 (JSTOR)  (heading) Climatic change: are we on
the brink of a pronounced global warming?

Fred Shapiro


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