Fox News Flash: Rome, December 17, ~1600 A.D.
“Britus Humus, reporting from the Vatican”.
Pope Excommunicates Heliocentrists for Heretical “Slant”.
Global temperatures hit record lows in the midst of the Little Ice Age.
Peasants starve and die of plague, while corpse-collectors shout “Bring Out Your Dead”.
Merchants from Sweden and Germany complain about ice-clogged naval passages that hamper their trade.
In France Louis XIV (the ‘Sun King’) declares a War on Climate Change, raises taxes, and urges the archbishops to pray for a return to warmer weather.
“Back to you, Sheppus”.
Now THAT was funny.