How to Use global warming in a Sentence

global warming

noun
  • As of today, there’s a Bechdel test for global warming.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the context of global warming, Sites Reservoir must be seen as an anachronism.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Aquaman breaks his brother out of prison to gain his help in stopping global warming.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Sun Sentinel is hell-bent on championing the demise of South Florida due to global warming.
    Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The study found that, with two degrees Celsius of global warming, the risk of a Category 6 storm doubles in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Max Chesnes, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, that is nonsense as a future ice age would be one of the results of global warming melting polar ice caps, as NASA has confirmed.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Scientists say global warming has caused the right whale’s preferred food — tiny crustaceans — to move as waters have warmed.
    Christina Larson, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The report highlights that progress on global climate action is moving too slow to keep up with the effects of global warming.
    Stephanie Ebbs, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Exxon officials have known since the late 1970s that burning fossil fuels would lead to global warming.
    Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The world is far off its pledge to curb global warming, scientists say, by cutting emissions in line with the requirements of the 2015 Paris climate accord.
    Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • None of these winemakers take any pleasure in global warming.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The two summits are the latest in a long line of international meetings the U.N. has hosted that are designed to solve global warming.
    Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • If these thresholds are passed, some of global warming’s effects—like the thaw of permafrost or the loss of the world’s coral reefs—are likely to happen more quickly than expected.
    Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • The study found climate change extremes are getting worse in a place that once seemed slightly shielded from global warming’s wildness.
    Melina Walling, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That, of course, could lead to faster reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • For 3 years in a row, cool La Niña conditions have reigned in the tropical Pacific Ocean, suppressing the steady march of global warming.
    Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Wildfires, years of drought and global warming have plagued California vineyards, but that’s only part of the problem.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The world remains on track for at least three degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century and, with it, the threat of massive social and political upheaval.
    Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Because climate change is making sand and dust storms more common, there are concerns about the aerosols contributing to global warming.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Underlying El Niño is the long-term trend of global warming that is leading to more frequent and more severe extreme weather events, like drought and heat.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Under the landmark Paris climate accord, nations have pledged to try to keep global warming under that threshold.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Appetite for carbon offsets soared in 2021, amid a wave of government and corporate pledges to trim emissions and head off global warming.
    Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • High temperatures around the United States broke records this summer, which are expected to continue for the rest of the season and, because of global warming, for years to come.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • No single weather event can prove or disprove global warming.
    Mathew Barlow, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The number is dangerously close to the goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C (2.7 F) above pre-industrial levels set in the Paris Agreement.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, the U.N. has said, humanity will need to find a way to suck around ten gigatons of carbon a year out of the atmosphere.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The seven scientists here document the impacts of global warming on the nonhuman world.
    Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023

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