Dictionary definition of “global weirding”

global weirding

n. an increase in severe or unusual environmental activity often attributed to global warming. Subjects: English, Environment

Editorial Note: Global weirding includes an increase in average temperatures, heat waves, cold spells, hurricanes, blizzards, plant and animal die-offs and population explosions, and new animal migration patterns.

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Citations: 2002 Anne Raver New York Times (Nov. 7) “Bananas in the Backyard”: ‘‘It could be colder, it could be drier, it could be wetter, it could be warmer,’’ said Katy Moss Warner, the new president of the horticulture society. If you can’t exactly point to the climate changes as evidence of global warming, perhaps you can call it global weirding. 2004 [Mark Marcoplos] OrangePolitics.org (Orange County, North Carolina) (Feb. 12) “ Let It Snow?”: Global weirding predictions are that the Southeast will experience more cold wionters & more snowfall as global climate change continues. And I have to agree with Dan. During the last snowstorm, I lost one of my chakras in my parka. 2005 [Rowan] Radical Noesis (July 24) “Now It’s Sand”: I have heard global warming referred to as global “weirding.” That certainly seems to be the case at this point. Parts of Africa and Southern Europe are in the grips of a record breaking drought. The Southwestern United States is in a record breaking heat wave and the death toll climbs. Meanwhile, one named storm after another spawns in the south Atlantic and ravishes island nations, Central America, Mexico and the southern United States. In the Pacific “Super” Typhoon Haitang brought record rains and displaced 7.6 million people. 2005 Lenexa, Kansas Krystal Planet Corporation (Oct. 7) “Krystal Planet Announces Explosive Product Sales Growth”: The nation is reeling from several factors: Hurricane Katrina, “Global Weirding” (strange and violent weather and other events), our myopic and hopeless dependence on foreign energy, record worldwide energy demand, and a never-before-seen worldwide shortage of both supply and spare production of fossil fuels. 2006 Charlie Rose Rocky Mountain Institute (Colorado) (Nov. 28) “Environmentalist Amory Lovins from Rocky Mountain Institute on Energy Alternatives”: We could get, by the way, a million new jobs and save a million old jobs that way, get rid of a quarter of our carbon dioxide emission that cause “global weirding.”

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