global weirding
n.— «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.”» —“Environmentalist Amory Lovins from Rocky Mountain Institute on Energy Alternatives” by Charlie Rose Rocky Mountain Institute (Colorado) Nov. 28, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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