Thermageddon
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Proper Noun
- 1 A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
"Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so."
Example
More examples"Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so."
Etymology
Coined by Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter in his 2003 book, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, from thermal + -geddon (after Armageddon (“the end of the world”)).
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