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The UK’s leading Catholic bishop on the environment lamented this weekend that the COP26 Climate Change Conference failed to redirect sufficient funds from wealthy nations to poor ones in reparation for global warming.

A doctor in British Columbia, Canada, recently diagnosed a woman as suffering from “climate change” after she developed breathing difficulties amid a summer heatwave in the western province, Euronews reported Wednesday.

Pope Francis has written a letter to the Catholics of Scotland urging them to pray for the “fruitful outcome” of the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference.

The Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper offered a fawning review Saturday of John Kerry’s address this week at the COP26 Climate Change Conference, warning of the risk of “climate negligence.”

Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam warned that climate change would end in men’s female relatives being gang-raped in front of them in a 2019 pamphlet, it has been revealed.

Climate-related disasters and deaths have been decreasing steadily over the last hundred years, despite tales of dread and woe from alarmists, climate expert Bjorn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal Thursday.

Climate activists attempted to block air traffic at eight different airports across Sweden, with several glueing themselves to a runway.

The president spoke to the summit after struggling to stay awake for the opening remarks from world leaders about the importance of addressing the issue of global warming. 

Greta Thunberg criticized world leaders for not acting on so-called “climate change” in a tirade to fellow COP26 protesters on Monday.

Rev. Franklin Graham on Monday criticized the recent G20 Summit’s focus and noted how when uncommon weather occurs, leaders say “climate change” is to blame.

Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the success of the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference beginning in Glasgow, Scotland.

Jack Black is the latest Hollywood celebrity to attack fossil fuels, providing the voice of a talking velociraptor who chides the world about impending doom in the United Nations’ new global warming PSA.

Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, President of the European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE), said Wednesday that keeping to “the 1.5°C threshold for global warming is a profound moral imperative.”

BERLIN (AP) – The United Nations is summoning an unusual “witness” to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur.

Rice cultivated on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido “has become tastier thanks to (global) warming,” former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday.

The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug out from under Paris’ $66 billion submarine deal Down Under.

British actress Joanna Lumley has called for a return to wartime rationing and climate credit to tackle alleged manmade global warming.

(AFP) — Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia filed a landmark lawsuit Tuesday aimed at forcing the government to protect them from climate change through deeper cuts to carbon emissions.

Media darling Greta Thunberg has agreed that she’s “just saying blah blah blah” on climate change in a BBC interview, arguing “that’s the role of an activist”.

The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Monday that atmospheric greenhouse gases reached a “new record” in 2020 despite markedly decreased human activity due to the coronavirus pandemic.

WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) – In the patchwork of hills, lakes, and sea that makes up England’s northwest corner, most people see beauty. Dave Cradduck sees broken dreams.

Britain’s supposedly “libertarian” prime minister is reportedly considering hitting consumers with a charge every time they use disposable paper coffee cups and wooden cutlery.

Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal Thursday that many journalists and media outlets engage in a dangerous form of climate alarmism, pushing implausible worst-case scenarios to induce panic.

The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on October 29, where the two will discuss “tackling the climate crisis,” among other topics.

The American bumble bee is destined to go the way of the brontosaurus and the wooly mammoth thanks to manmade climate change, media report.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has published a special report in anticipation of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, insisting that the “burning of fossil fuels is killing us.”

“Within the lifetime of Prince George, much of Buckingham Palace could be underwater,” the Daily Mail reports Tuesday, citing a new climate change study.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion blocked a busy intersection Monday near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament, marking the start of a week of protests the group plans in The Hague before a UN climate conference that opens on Oct. 31.

Doctors should think less about the health of their patients and more about the health of the planet, an editorial in the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) has urged.

The Vatican announced this weekend that Pope Francis will not attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.

Pope Francis urged governments Saturday to “adopt without delay a course of action that would limit the average global temperature rise.”

Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher has called for increased redistribution as a necessary means of overcoming economic inequality, the Catholic News Service reported Wednesday.

Jen Psaki asserted the climate crisis was more important than cheaper fuel, calling global warming “one of the greatest national security crises the president sees.”

Pope Francis hosted scientists and religious leaders in the Vatican Monday, where they signed a joint appeal calling for carbon neutrality and a radical change in lifestyles.

Antarctica has posted its coldest winter since records began in 1957 with average temperatures of -61.1 ° C. The previous record was -60.6°C in 1976. According to a shocked Washington Post: The chill was exceptional, even for the coldest location on the planet.

Pope Francis warned Monday that humanity is inflicting “serious wounds” on the environment and threw his moral weight behind the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).