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
- 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

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