Thermageddon

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Etymology[edit]

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)).

Proper noun[edit]

Thermageddon

  1. A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
    • 2010, Alastair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:
      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.