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An American retired lawyer and university professor was caught on camera on Tuesday shooting dead two climate change protesters in Panama. Kenneth Darlington, 77, appeared before a judge in the town of La Espiga on Wednesday afternoon, and after a two-hour hearing was remanded in custody. Eliécer Plicett, a lawyer for the two victims, both of them teachers, said Darlington was being charged with murder and illegal possession of a gun, TVN Noticias reported. Darlington was seen on Tuesday, in front of a large number of photographers and television crews, walking up to a road block on a section of...

Faith Summit in Abu Dhabi to highlight role of believers in addressing climate changeAhead of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, religious leaders from around the world are meeting in Abu Dhabi to emphasize the role of believers in the response to the global crisis of climate change.Faith leaders from around the world are converging on Abu Dhabi for a global summit on climate action ahead of next month’s COP28 meeting in Dubai.The summit has been organized by the Muslim Council of Elders, in collaboration with the COP28 Presidency, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Holy See, and aims...

[Catholic Caucus] A Masonic leader was at Vatican environmental conference to promote depopulation, world gov’tCarlos Alvarez Pereira was invited from The Club of Rome, which has from its founding been one of the chief promoters of the Malthusian myth of overpopulation and radical population control programs.The Sixth forum of the “Laudato Si’ Communities” was held in Verona, Italy, earlier this month. This is a series of meetings devoted to propagating Pope Francis’ views on what is called “the climate emergency.”This latest affair was called “Doubling the Commitment.” This was a reference to Francis’ new exhortation, Laudate Deum, in which he...

Occidental Petroleum quietly sold off a carbon capture facility – the world’s largest — that was built into a natural gas processing plant in Texas, according to a Bloomberg Green investigation. The plant, called Century, never operated at more than a third of its capacity since it was built in 2010. According to statements the company made to Bloomberg Green, the technology worked, and the facility continues to operate as designed. The economics of Century weren’t good because of limited amounts of natural gas coming from a nearby field, according to the report, and as a result, the plant fell...

Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race. Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is. - snip - But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a...

Pope Francis set to attend UN ‘climate change’ conference in Dubai: reportsPope Francis has called for the upcoming COP28 conference to promote ‘binding forms of energy transition’ that are ‘obligatory and readily monitored.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Multiple “senior Vatican sources” have attested that Pope Francis is due to attend the COP28 climate conference, media reports have stated, after he highlighted the conference as a potentially “historic event.” Published first in the French-language version of its website, La Croix reported that Pope Francis intends to attend the COP28 “climate change” conference due to be held in Dubai at the end of...

Fifty years ago, the nation was in the throes of what was then known as the Energy Crisis. This was not a crisis of supply; it was a crisis of government interference in markets. Today, the governments of the world are still meddling in markets; today, our own federal government is still guddling about in our energy supply infrastructure and markets while draining our country's reserves dry to try to cut a dime a gallon off skyrocketing gasoline prices. What has gone wrong is very clear to anyone who understands how markets work.Take a look at these words:“The oil industry...

Pope Francis hosts private audience with pro-abortion, climate alarmist Irish presidentDuring their audience in the pontiff's library, Pope Francis and President Michael D. Higgins discussed 'the protection of the environment in the light of the publication of the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum.'(LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis met pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Irish President Michael D. Higgins at a private audience today held in the pontiff’s private library.The fourth meeting between the two leaders forms part of a busy five-day schedule for left-leaning Higgins in Rome, which coincides with a keynote address at the closing session of the World Food Forum at the U.N....

“Climate change” is in the news daily, with each featured story getting an attention-grabbing sensationalist headline. The frenzy is at its peak now because it’s the time of year for tropical storms and wildfires. However, to appreciate that these stories are pure narratives, it’s a good time to consider the facts behind the so-called “greenhouse gases.” Several atmospheric gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor, absorb light in the infrared region. These are collectively known as the “greenhouse gases” because absorbing infrared energy warms up the air—hence the name greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide, on a per-molecule basis, is six...

Two weeks ago, my employer presented me with a stark ultimatum: return to my offices in Kiel, Germany, within five days, or lose my job. I am a climate researcher and since March 2023, I have been completing vital fieldwork into the social impact of climate change almost 24,000km away by overland routes, on the island of Bougainville off the coast of Papua New Guinea. ...I have been practising conscientious objection to flying for more than 10 years. My employer has supported me on a “slow trip” in the past. I do not boycott flying altogether, but I will only...

Whoopi Goldberg meets with Pope Francis, champions his acceptance of homosexualityWhile the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church on human sexuality remain both unchanged and unchangeable, Francis has indeed undermined or obfuscated these truths through what many see as ambiguous or outright heretical statements.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-abortion American actress and activist Whoopi Goldberg met with Pope Francis Thursday, the former taking the time to thank the latter for his “message” surrounding so-called climate change, and his stance on homosexual acts and Communion for the divorced and “remarried.”In an interview published Thursday by Vatican News, Goldberg talked about her meeting...

[Catholic Caucus] Laudate Deum and the Eclipse of the ChurchWhat to make of a document like Pope Francis's latest apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum? Like other Francis encyclicals, it is hardly recognizable as a Catholic document. The central portion of the letter addresses the "progress and failures" of various "climate conferences" held in the last decades. It features an entire section vaguely prognosticating on a upcoming conference in Dubai. As this description suggests, Laudate Deum is single-mindedly materialistic and lacking in any supernatural focus. Its political arguments are naive, abstract, and self-contradictory. It endorses a global coalition of "activists" who will...

Global And Individual WarmingsFrancis’ new spiritual guide… The Evil Clown was, last time I looked, not a climatologist. The climate is, most certainly, not his realm of expertise. As the pope (which he, unworthily, undoubtedly is), his realm of expertise should be the salvation of souls through the defence and propagation of sound Catholicism. Francis does not believe in God. If he did, he would never believe that farting cows and flying aeroplanes can destroy His creation. Alas, Francis clearly seems to have abused the Church to scrounge an existence in a Country that gave him no opportunities, either because...

Pope Francis’ remarks on faith in ‘Laudate Deum’ are even more alarming than his climate activismLaudate Deum cannot be approached as just another text in which Pope Francis rehashes the clichés of climate alarmism. His strange statements that touch on faith itself are a far more serious problem.Comments on the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum will no doubt focus on Pope Francis’ recommendations for safeguarding the “common home”– an expression coined by Gorbachev at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union – in his follow-up to the “ecological” encyclical Laudato si’.But irrespective of what one might think of the...

‘Laudate Deum’: Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’ Companion Piece on the EnvironmentPope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God), is a personal, impassioned public-policy plea for action on the “climate crisis.” Laudate Deum was issued on Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Less than 8,000 words in English, it is written in the style of a political manifesto rather than a magisterial document. Given that the original language was Spanish, not Italian, it can be presumed that Pope Francis took a direct hand in its drafting. Pope Francis makes definitive declarations on climate science, predictions about future weather-related...

Pope Francis calls for obligatory global climate change policies in new document ‘Laudate Deum’Pope Francis' new document, Laudate Deum, calls for international bodies to enforce 'obligatory' policies to implement measures responding to the 'climate crisis.'ATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has published his second document on the topic of “climate change,” condemning “human-induced climate changes” and calling for “obligatory” measures across the globe to address the issue.There must be “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored,” wrote Pope Francis, outlining his hopes for the upcoming COP28 “climate change” conference, which...

Climate-related deaths are down 99 percent worldwide over the past 100 years — thanks largely to fossil fuels, capitalism, and human innovation.United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared that “Humanity has opened the gates of hell” during his opening remarks at the Climate Ambition Summit in New York on Sept. 20. The event followed two days of meetings attended by global elites. Scientists and experts have been making catastrophic climate predictions like these for decades — often relying on flawed models endorsed by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which have been consistently proven wrong. “Horrendous heat is having...

Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most difficult feats known to humankind, but the treacherous expedition is getting even more challenging due to climate change, according to experts. Warming temperatures around the globe are making both the topography of the glaciers in the Himalayas and the weather patterns mountaineers rely on to plan the timing of their journeys more unpredictable, climbing experts and climatologists told ABC News.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on governments around the globe to criminalize so-called “climate inaction” with severe penalties for offenders. In a recent article from Klaus Schwab’s unelected organization, the WEF demands that failing to comply with the globalist green agenda should be classed as a “human rights violation.” In most civilized nations around the world, human rights violations are serious crimes that carry harsh punishments. In the United States, punishments for human rights violations vary from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, according to the FBI. If bodily injury results or if...

ROME — Progressive Catholics are rending their seamless garments over poll results showing that a “shockingly low” number of U.S. Catholics support Pope Francis’s radical take on global warming. “Ahead of the release of Laudato Deum [the pope’s new climate encyclical], shockingly low numbers of American Catholic[s] support @pontifex on climate. Formation on this should be a priority for bishops,” writes Stephen Schneck, who served as national co-chair of Catholics for Biden in 2020. Schneck is also on the Board of Directors for Catholic Climate Covenant and was previously a board member for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good,...