Sentence examples for of planetary warming from inspiring English sources

The seemingly inexorable (and increasingly irreversible) march of planetary warming is something we tend to associate with increased devastation — floods and famine, droughts and storms.

That relatively long gap led some climate-change contrarians to assert that rising carbon dioxide levels were essentially irrelevant to the earth's temperature — a side effect of planetary warming, perhaps, but not the cause.

The international negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change have not been terribly fruitful in recent years, but the recent weather extremes around the globe, amid further evidence of planetary warming, could concentrate policy makers' minds and lead to progress in coming talks, Dr. Pachauri said.

"There's still scientific uncertainty, without a doubt, about what climate change will bring," said William D. Solecki, a professor in the earth and environmental studies department at Montclair State University in New Jersey and a director of a recent federal study on the effects of planetary warming on the New York metropolitan region.

Correction: A previous edition of this article misstated the fact that each ascending halftone is equal to roughly 0.03°C of planetary warming.

Crawford used a method called data sonification to create his song, ultimately attributing each ascending halftone to roughly 0.03°C of planetary warming.

Mr. Borelli, who disputes the assessment of most climate scientists that human industry is contributing to planetary warming, said his organization was also supporting the resubmission of a resolution from last year directed at Duke Energy.

But new research has also shown that pollen production may be linked in a perverse way to climate change because higher levels of carbon dioxide -- a primary greenhouse gas blamed for planetary warming -- encourage trees to produce more pollen.

At a time of intense planetary warming, it's odd to even contemplate a counterfactual world in which we might instead be in or heading into a glacial period, sometimes more popularly called an "ice age".

Each participating nation is obliged to submit a set of measures it is ready to take, known as "intended nationally determined contributions," or INDCs, aimed at achieving the overall goal of preventing planetary warming from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius.

Yet he made no mention of the planetary warming ― 2017 was the second-hottest year on record ― that worsened the disasters, instead bolstering his administration's aggressive fossil fuel push. .