global boiling

Coined by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July 2023.

global boiling (plural global boilings)

1. (sciences, neologism) A very fast and sharp increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space; an extreme form of global warming. [from 2023]

   Hypernyms: global warming, climate change

   • 2023 July 27, Catherine Clifford, quoting António Guterres, “‘The era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN boss, as White House announces provisions to protect workers from extreme heat”, in NBC News‎^[1]:

     “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

   • 2024 December, Sae Eun Lee, Kyu-Hye Lee, “Environmentally sustainable fashion and conspicuous behavior”, in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, →DOI, page 2:

     In the aftermath of global warming, concerns regarding the sustainability of natural resources have intensified due to global boiling (Arora and Mishra, 2023).

   • 2025 March 25, “Reef allies plunge heart and soul into coral rescue”, in Sunday Age, Melbourne, page 28:

     The mass bleaching is a relatively new phenomenon that's turned chronic in what UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as the era of global boiling.

   • [2025 April 1, Yu Jung Sohn, Se‐Yeun Hwang, Haeyoung Lee, Subeen Jeon, Ji Young Park, Jaehyung Kim, Donghyuk Kim, Ki Jun Jeong, Sang Yup Lee, Jeong Chan Joo, “Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for High‐Level Production of 1,5‐Pentanediol, a C5 Diol Platform Chemical”, in Advanced Science, →DOI:

     The term “global boiling” is now used to describe current climate change, as recent climate data highlight a significant departure from the conventional understanding of global warming.]