How to Use climate change in a Sentence

climate change

noun
  • More than four scientific studies have pinned a large part of the decline on human climate change.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Those concerns came to a head in September, when Malpass came under fire for his views on climate change.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The costs of not addressing climate change are becoming clear as insurance prices rise for flooding and wildfire threats.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The other issue is that hurricane models aren’t good at taking climate change into account.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The bank’s current leader, David Malpass, has been under fire recently over his views on climate change.
    Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • California and Arizona are ramping up plans at present to combat drought and climate change in general.
    Hector Diaz, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The United States, and, really, the entire world, has squandered much of the time that has elapsed since climate change first became a concern more than forty years ago.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2021
  • This was the first example of trade associations working together to stall government action on climate change.
    Christian Downie, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The bank's current leader, David Malpass, announced his resignation last week after coming under fire for his views on climate change.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The specter of climate change lurks behind many of the recent events.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 June 2024
  • But as climate change warms the oceans, that adds to the fuel for more intense storms.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2024
  • What more about climate change does anyone need to know?
    Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The fight against dementia, then, is part and parcel with the fight against climate change.
    Joel Mathis, theweek, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Read more on whether the agency is putting enough of its money where its mouth is on climate change.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The concern is the speed of the current shift, many researchers agree, which may be driven by climate change.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
  • Amid the fight for normalcy, a call to address climate change rings.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Hochul continued to pin the cause of the severe weather on climate change.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The irony is that many of the same users likely dismissed the notion that this summer's record heat wave was the result of climate change.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In the face of climate change, wineries around the world are innovating.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The call to action around climate change and the path to sustainability is there.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • If there was ever a year that called for bold global action on climate change, 2023 was it.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, in the 21st century, every heat wave is also caused at least in part by climate change.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • There, diplomats will discuss whether and how to step up action on climate change.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Now that wildlife is depleted and hemmed in, climate change has come crashing down.
    Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Fair enough — climate change is kind of the ultimate bummer!
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There are great stories about people finding ways to adapt to climate change.
    Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Studies show that if climate change continues at the same pace, 99% of the world's coral reefs are likely to die off by the end of the century.
    Ryan Kellman, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Bering — named for the Alaskan climate change research that clinched her mother’s fame — had flinched in the face of warring identities.
    Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Could the push to fight climate change lead people to rethink beef consumption?
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That only goes to show that many of the nations most vulnerable to climate change are paying the price for a problem the world’s wealthiest countries are largely responsible for perpetuating.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024

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