global boiling

[ gloh-buhl boi-ling ]

noun

1. a nonscientific term used to emphasize the trend toward and severity of extreme heat events, especially in regard to public health:

   Owing to the number of heat-related deaths, the agency has referred to this month—the hottest July on record—as further evidence that we’ve entered an era of global boiling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of global boiling¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "the era of global boiling has arrived".

From Reuters

"Standing in searing heat in that scarred landscape, breathing air polluted by the many gas flares dotting the region, it was clear to me that the era of global boiling has indeed begun," he said at a news conference in Baghdad, referring to his time in southern Iraq's oil-producing Basra region.

From Reuters

It's no wonder the United Nations has warned we now live in the era of "global boiling".

From BBC

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres this week declared: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

From Seattle Times

On Thursday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the era of global warming had ended and that "the era of global boiling" had arrived.

From BBC