Crossword clues for hot air
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literal English) Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon. 2 (context idiomatic English) empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster.
WordNet
n. air that has been heated and tends to rise
loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric]
Wikipedia
Hot air may refer to:
- Heat
- A lie, exaggeration, nonsense
- Hot air (economics)
- Hot Air (blog), an American conservative political blog
- Hot air airship
- Hot air balloon
- Hot air boat
- Hot air engine
- Hot air gun
- Hot air oven
- Hot air reflow
- Hot Air Club
- The Hot Air Salesman, 1937 Fleischer Studios animated short film
- Into Hot Air, 2007 book by Chris Elliott
- HOTAIR, a human gene (short for "HOX transcript antisense RNA")
Hot air in economics refers to the Assigned Amount Units (AAU) credits given for the reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions among the former Soviet Bloc countries since 1990.
The fall of the Soviet Union led to massive restructuring and deindustrialization of many of the former Soviet Bloc. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated, there were several mechanisms that allowed for trading of emissions credits. These included credits produced under the Joint Initiative (JI) provision: Emission Reduction Unit credits; the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): Certified Emission Reduction credits; and Assigned Amount Units (AAU) now also widely known as Hot Air in the post Soviet context. These were given to Russia as an incentive to sign the treaty. Critical climate change experts decry these credits as a way for countries to buy their way out of taking action to address climate change.