"warm future" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe a hopeful or optimistic outlook for the future. For example, "The community worked together in solidarity to create a warm future for all its citizens."
It was this prediction of an overly warm future that transformed Dr. Mahlman into a reluctant activist.
Anthony R. Ingraffea's most recent attack on natural gas ("Gangplank to a Warm Future," Op-Ed, July 29) is based on flawed research.
Here's Muller's piece: The Op-Ed "Gangplank to a Warm Future" by Anthony Ingraffea contains a correct but highly misleading number – the value of the "global warming potential," or GWP, for methane.
It's a critique of one element in "Gangplank to a Warm Future," an Op-Ed article by Anthony R. Ingraffea, a professor of engineering at Cornell who is a prominent foe of expanded gas drilling using the bundle of methods commonly known as "fracking".
In a July 28 Op-Ed article in The Times, Ingraffea, a prominent foe of the drilling technique best known as fracking, challenged the widespread view of natural gas as a "bridge" from coal to a cleaner energy future, saying it was a "gangplank to a warm future".
Inside Llewyn Davis plays out like a prayer sung in the freezing dark of night to a bright, warm future morning to come.
They are functional and amphibious, as if they had time-traveled from a globally warm future-world where the weather is wet and unpredictable and people live in floating cities that look like airport departure hubs designed by Zaha Hadid.
Which is why, in a globally warmed future, all offices will need a second exit, just in case.
The verisimilitude of "The Netherlands Lives With Water," about a Rotterdam couple managing flooding in the globally warmed future, is as compelling as the story's emotional landscape.
"Showing that the most extreme droughts in the Southwest have predominantly occurred during warmer intervals in our past raises important questions about what we should expect in an even warmer future," Mr. Routson said.
The Dutch government's hideously expensive Delta Works was the culmination of centuries of defense work, but the authorities never relax in the face of a warming future with predictions of more extreme weather events.
