How to Use climate change in a Sentence
climate change
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The specter of climate change lurks behind many of the recent events.
— Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 June 2024 -
But as climate change warms the oceans, that adds to the fuel for more intense storms.
— Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024 -
What more about climate change does anyone need to know?
— Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023 -
The fight against dementia, then, is part and parcel with the fight against climate change.
— Joel Mathis, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024 -
Read more on whether the agency is putting enough of its money where its mouth is on climate change.
— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024 -
The concern is the speed of the current shift, many researchers agree, which may be driven by climate change.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024 -
Amid the fight for normalcy, a call to address climate change rings.
— Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Hochul continued to pin the cause of the severe weather on climate change.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023 -
The irony is that many of the same users likely dismissed the notion that this summer's record heat wave was the result of climate change.
— Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 -
In the face of climate change, wineries around the world are innovating.
— Lauren Sommer, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024 -
The call to action around climate change and the path to sustainability is there.
— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024 -
If there was ever a year that called for bold global action on climate change, 2023 was it.
— Denise Chow, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023 -
Of course, in the 21st century, every heat wave is also caused at least in part by climate change.
— Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024 -
There, diplomats will discuss whether and how to step up action on climate change.
— Brad Plumer, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Now that wildlife is depleted and hemmed in, climate change has come crashing down.
— Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Fair enough — climate change is kind of the ultimate bummer!
— Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023 -
There are great stories about people finding ways to adapt to climate change.
— Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023 -
Studies show that if climate change continues at the same pace, 99% of the world's coral reefs are likely to die off by the end of the century.
— Ryan Kellman, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Bering — named for the Alaskan climate change research that clinched her mother’s fame — had flinched in the face of warring identities.
— Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Could the push to fight climate change lead people to rethink beef consumption?
— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024 -
One of coral reef’s biggest threats is climate change, according to NOAA.
— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024 -
That event, 18 years ago, was when the conversation about climate change started for him.
— Bill Weir, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023 -
In recent years, people have upped the scale, leaning on the idea of tree-planting to help mitigate climate change.
— Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Are there reasons for optimism in our fight against climate change?
— David Carlin, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Some experts say the effects of climate change, such as milder winters and an earlier start to spring, may be to blame for the uptick in feline birth rates.
— Sachi Mulkey, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2024 -
Overuse and a 23-year-long drought made worse by climate change have threatened to provoke a water and power catastrophe across the West.
— Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Those concerns came to a head in September, when Malpass came under fire for his views on climate change.
— BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023 -
The country has also had to cope with the whiplash from severe drought and sudden floods, another hallmark of climate change.
— Justine Calma, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Here's where Americans are fleeing their homes in droves because of climate change.
— Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024 -
That only goes to show that many of the nations most vulnerable to climate change are paying the price for a problem the world’s wealthiest countries are largely responsible for perpetuating.
— Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
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