Definition of global warming in US English:
global warming
nounˈɡlōbəl ˈwôrmiNGˈɡloʊbəl ˈwɔrmɪŋ
A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some climatologists maintain that global warming is unlikely to have an impact on hurricanes.
- However, whether this is global warming, or part of a longer-term cycle, who knows?
- The jury is still out regarding the case of human induced global warming.
- One further feature of global warming is the increased risk of flooding in the future.
- The islands are at risk of being submerged if sea levels rise, which is an expected result of global warming.
- Conflict over the role of nuclear power in combating global warming is heating up.
- However, the impact that global warming may have on the monsoon is not yet fully understood.
- If we use more petrol we create more pollution and add to global warming.
- We all know that carbon emissions are contributing to global warming and ecocide.
- It is the key to the fight back against pollution, global warming, and dwindling resources.
- He was a sceptic about the capacity of global warming to affect hurricanes when he began a detailed study of the data.
- Where am I to go for serious coverage and debate on the big issues of climate change and global warming?
- For the first time senior politicians and the media have clearly linked flooding to global warming.
- The tired old global warming, and greenhouse gas bogeymen have also been raised.
- The reason is the way global warming affects rainfall and other weather patterns.
- It is impossible to blame any one individual weather event on global warming.
- I have researched the subject of global warming and alternative energy for more than ten years.
- The company is deeply concerned by the effects of global warming caused by the greenhouse effect.
- We cannot tell if global warming is occurring as a result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- One important problem is that the emission of carbon dioxide causes global warming.