How to Use climate change in a Sentence

climate change

noun
  • Amid the fight for normalcy, a call to address climate change rings.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The fight against dementia, then, is part and parcel with the fight against climate change.
    Joel Mathis, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Health experts say allergy seasons have worsened over the years because of climate change.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Debra: Choosing to move right now because of climate change is a privilege.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The narrators of these books are painfully aware of anthropogenic climate change and runaway capitalism.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Research on other storms has demonstrated the link between climate change and rainfall intensity.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Dimon’s letter to shareholders touched on a number of pressing issues, including climate change.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • President Joe Biden has set a goal that up to half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030 to cut emissions and fight climate change.
    Tom Krisher, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But, again, globally, far too much wine is too cheap, and profits too low - especially given the uncertainties associated with climate change.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Moreover, without tackling the debt problem, tackling other problems, from child poverty to housing costs to climate change, will become harder as the government has less space to spend and invest.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Advertisement For some parts of the globe, like South and East Asia, monsoons are predicted to become more intense because of climate change.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Still, there is impatience and skepticism from some places most vulnerable to climate change, where residents have been fighting for a cleaner environment on a shoestring budget.
    Drew Costley, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Careful work in the vineyards throughout the season can protect sensitive grapes from severe heat, which occurs more frequently because of climate change and unstable weather patterns.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hochul continued to pin the cause of the severe weather on climate change.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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