global cooling
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Global climate change in the form of declining average temperatures; which was conjectured in the 1970s.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Some point out that global temperatures peaked in 1998 and have been falling since then. Indeed, several argue that a period of global cooling is on the way."
- "Many climate contrarians have seized upon these studies and magazine articles to argue that since climate scientists supposedly got their global cooling predictions wrong in the 1970s, they could be getting their global warming predictions wrong now."