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CT: Landmark analysis released by Greenpeace USA, European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and other climate and energy advocates shows that the United States can indeed address global warming without relying on nuclear power or so-called “clean coal” — as some in the ongoing energy debate claim. The new report, “Energy Revolution: A Blueprint for Solving Global Warming” details a worldwide energy scenario where nearly 80% of U.S. electricity can be produced by renewable energy sources; where carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced 50% globally and 72% in the U.S. without resorting to an increase in dangerous nuclear power or new coal technologies; and where America’s oil use can be cut by more than 50% by 2050 by using much more efficient cars and trucks (potentially plug-in hybrids), increased use of biofuels and a greater reliance on electricity for transportation. The 92-page report, commissioned by the German Aerospace Center, used input on all technologies of the renewable energy industry, including wind turbines, solar photovoltaic panels, biomass power plants, solar thermal collectors, and biofuels, all of which “are rapidly becoming mainstream.”
S: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2007/01/increasing-renewable-energy-in-u-s-can-solve-global-warming-47208.html (last access: 21 August 2016)
N: 1. – global (adj): 1670s, “spherical,” from globe + -al. Meaning “worldwide, universal, pertaining to the whole globe of the earth” is from 1892, from a sense development in French. Global village first attested 1960, popularized, if not coined, by Canadian educator Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980).
Postliterate man’s electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the same time: everyone knows about, and therefore participates in, everything that is happening the minute it happens. Television gives this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village. (Carpenter & McLuhan, “Explorations in Communication,” 1960)
– warming (n): From present participle of warm (v.).
. global warming: by 1983 as the name for a condition of overall rising temperatures on Earth and attendant consequences as a result of human activity. Originally theoretical, popularized as a reality from 1989.
2. Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over the past one to two centuries. Climate scientists have since the mid-20th century gathered detailed observations of various weather phenomena (such as temperatures, precipitation, and storms) and of related influences on climate (such as ocean currents and the atmosphere’s chemical composition). These data indicate that Earth’s climate has changed over almost every conceivable timescale since the beginning of geologic time and that the influence of human activities since at least the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has been deeply woven into the very fabric of climate change.
3. The term global warming was probably first used in its modern sense on 8 August 1975 in a science paper by Wally Broecker in the journal Science called “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?”.
S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=global; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=warming; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=global+warming (last access: 21 August 2016). 2. EncBrit – https://global.britannica.com/science/global-warming (last access: 21 August 2016). 3. http://wordfever1.blogspot.com.es/2011/02/etymology.html (last access: 21 August 2016).
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CR: air pollution, charging pool, climate change, erosion, greenhouse effect, hybrid car, stratosphere, stratospheric ozone, tropospheric ozone.
