Global cooling (disambiguation)

Global cooling was a 1970s conjecture about global climate change.

Global cooling may also refer to:

• Impact winter – Hypothesized climate effects due to an asteroid or comet impact on Earth
• Nuclear winter – Hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
• Volcanic winter – Temperature anomaly event caused by a volcanic eruption
• a long-term decline in:
  • global surface temperature
  • ocean heat content
• Climate change mitigation, means to counteract global warming
• Earth's Energy Imbalance, a measurable change in the planet's radiative equilibrium which quantifies its cooling (or heating) rate
• Generally, cooling periods in Earth's climate history, see:
  • in historical times:
    • Late Antique Little Ice Age
    • Little Ice Age, a period from the 16th to 19th centuries characterized by cooling and coincident with below average sunspots frequency
  • within the current glaciation, see stadial
    • Marine isotope stage
    • Last Glacial Maximum
    • Next Glacial Maximum
  • on a geologic time scale, see ice age
    • Snowball Earth
• Geophysical global cooling, a conjecture about the formation of natural features that was made obsolete by the theory of plate tectonics

See also

• Geologic temperature record
• Paleoclimatology
• Climate change (general concept)
• Climate change denial
• Global warming