How to Use global warming in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • 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
  • And the spread in mosquitoes and ticks that has been linked to global warming is more likely to infect humans with pathogens, some experts say.
    — Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And over the longer term, the cool oceanic patch in and around the Galápagos has actually fended off the effects of global warming.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • These include droughts, wildfires, storms tied to global warming, mass shootings and the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
    — Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, The Conversation, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The consequences of global warming — and the essential task of weaning the world off oil, gas and coal — also need to be considered.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Overall, Reed said, a few degrees of global warming means that some storms that would have brought snow on a 31-degree day will end up as rain at 33 degrees.
    — Anne Barnard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • But what if Musk has it backwards, and the despair over global warming is a major problem contributing to the lack of children?
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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 have warned for a while that global warming threatens to batter many species.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • But global warming’s influence on extreme rain is more solid and clear.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In addition, the U.S. alone could lose 2.3 percent of its gross domestic product for each degree-C increase in global warming.
    — Ellen Peters, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2024

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