How to Use global warming in a Sentence

global warming

noun
  • The world is not coming to an end because of global warming.
    New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • With this year on track to be the hottest on record, scientists say global warming and its impacts are unfolding faster than expected.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The report may bolster the scientific basis for legal claims for losses tied to global warming.
    Steven Mufson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • The research suggests that the tuxedo-wearing waddlers might struggle to adapt to and survive the planet’s current rate of global warming.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
  • The tool shows how much time is left to limit global warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
    Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 22 July 2022
  • As waters warm — fueled by oceans absorbing more than 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming — fish are relocating.
    John Farrell, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • Trees are considered some of the best defenses against the radiation that contributes to the heat waves that are on the rise everywhere because of global warming.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
  • At the same time, higher AC usage is straining the electrical grid and boosting carbon emissions that will further contribute to global warming.
    Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 21 July 2022
  • The report links the emissions in individual countries to the economic impacts of climate change in others, and could bolster lawsuits claiming harm caused by global warming.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • The loss of ice is not just a symptom of global warming but also a cause of it.
    Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • As of today, there’s a Bechdel test for global warming.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Here's a few thoughts on what winter means in an era of global warming.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The debates on global warming seem to have passed by the governor.
    K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 20 May 2024
  • In the context of global warming, Sites Reservoir must be seen as an anachronism.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The changes needed to shield the West from the ravages of global warming won’t make everyone happy.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • If global warming were a blanket, the Irminger Sea and its neighboring waters are where the moths ate through.
    Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • How much any one event can be attributed to global warming isn’t clear-cut.
    Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Aquaman breaks his brother out of prison to gain his help in stopping global warming.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Someone has to stand up for the planet against global warming deniers.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
  • The Sun Sentinel is hell-bent on championing the demise of South Florida due to global warming.
    Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Now, each degree of global warming is dramatically upping the odds and size of the next megaflood, the study says.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
  • La Niña should cool things a bit, but greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming are still rising in the background.
    Pedro Dinezio, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • The research adds to a growing body of understanding -- and proof -- that global warming translates to stronger storms.
    Scott Dance The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Our Ginger Zee talks about climate change a lot, global warming.
    ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • And producers across Europe who have seen first-hand the effects of global warming are worried about what more is to come.
    Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But cutting back on the emission of greenhouse gasses could also help with global warming.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Now the sport is turning its expertise to global warming.
    Chris Hawes, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
  • However, efforts are not moving fast enough to keep up with the current rate of global warming.
    Stephanie Ebbs, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But as the impact of global warming unfolds across the world, events once expected to happen decades from now are already here.
    Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • A number of key countries – including China, the United States, and India, the main sources of the carbon dioxide fueling global warming – seem increasingly set on charting their own course.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2024

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