[Readings] Apocalypse Nouns | Harper's Magazine
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From words that describe environmental phenomena that have entered colloquial usage since the Fifties, identified by the writer Isaac Pearlman.

The Blob
Drunken forest
Firenado
Earthshine
Hotumn
Cold stunning
Relic permafrost
Polar vortex
Snowmageddon
Bomb cyclone
Global weirding