Examples of anthropogenic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This anthropogenic geoengineering might trigger unintended effects, like droughts in certain regions and massive storms in others. — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021 But the antibiotic resistance crisis is largely anthropogenic, or human-made. — Andre Hudson, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2021 But, researchers are confident that the perturbations of the habitats were anthropogenic, or as a result of human activity, Stevenson said. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2021 That latter technique involves comparing between models and observations to quantify the effects of specific inputs—such as anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions—upon the Earth’s climate. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2021 Journalists, media critics, and spectators have fretted over the launch of Fox Weather for months—and with good reason, given its parent network has been a major source of misinformation about anthropogenic climate change for more than a decade. — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021 The main driver is upper-ocean warming, a consequence of anthropogenic global warming, which is changing the global wave climate, making waves higher. — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021 By Scharringhausen’s calculations, a three-degree-C decrease in temperature to counteract current and near-future anthropogenic warming would require us to move our planet an additional three million kilometers from the sun. — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 18 June 2021 Critically, by accounting for natural climate variability, his work helped climate scientists characterize how much warming was truly anthropogenic. — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021

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