How to Use global warming in a Sentence

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  • But global warming due to the climate crisis is causing meteorites to sink into the melting ice.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • That may be an impossible feat, as the government might have to prove that oil production would not result in a worsening of global warming.
    — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Asian carp, for instance, or global warming in general, or evils as small as the spotted lanternfly and visible as 15-foot-tall stalks of knotweed.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Their complaint said the government’s failure to mitigate the effects of global warming harmed their living conditions and health.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • At current rates of global warming, the basin is likely to sustain at least an additional 18% drop in its water supplies over the next several decades, if not far more.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
  • To fend off the disastrous effects of global warming, many people have been willing to trade in their gas-guzzling cars, install solar panels on their roofs or dial down their energy use.
    — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Recently, environmental activists wheedling soup cans and super-glue have staged protests at art museums across the world in the hopes of conveying the urgency of global warming.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The director also discussed with Wallace the idea of his film Titanic as a metaphor for societal indifference to global warming.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This is to try to meet the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, compared to preindustrial levels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Electric vehicles are essential in limiting global warming.
    — CBS News, 26 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 have warned for a while that global warming threatens to batter many species.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • 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
  • The report warned about rapidly increasing consequences of global warming and how humans are contributing to the speed of changes.
    — Claire Grunewald, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2024

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