[Ads-l] Earliest Citation for "Global Warming"

[Dennis During]

>From a lexicographic point of view, that seems to be merely a collocation,
the meaning of which is a normal combination of the meanings of the
component terms. The meaning is obviously consistent with the current,
fraught meaning of the term, but I wonder when additional connotations
became loaded onto the phrase.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 12:40 Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> If we regard the current first citation in the OED for the term "global
> warming," and my slight antedating of it, as citations that should be
> placed in square brackets, the following becomes the earliest known
> citation:
>
> 1953 Anniston (Ala.) Star 22 July 4/1 (Newspapers.com)  Science Writer
> Leonard Engel, summing up meteorological opinion on this phenomenon in last
> Sunday's NewYork Times, cited two possible contributing factors to this
> global warming.
>
> The New York Times article referred to above apparently does not use the
> words "global warming."
>
> Fred Shapiro
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