Extreme weather shows time of climate change denial is over —Vatican

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"Apocalyptic floods, mega droughts, disastrous heatwaves, and catastrophic cyclones and hurricanes have become the new normal in recent years; they continue today; tomorrow, they will get worse," Cardinal Michael Czerny said.

People gather in front of a road damaged by flood waters following heavy monsoon rains in Madian area in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley on August 27, 2022. Thousands of people living near flood-swollen rivers in Pakistan's north were ordered to evacuate on August 27 as the death toll from devastating monsoon rains neared 1,000 with no end in sight. Abdul Majeed/ AFP

The film takes its title from Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si on the defense of the environment. It premiered at the Vatican on Tuesday and will be available free on YouTube Originals. Tuesday is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of the environment. Last week, Hurricane Ian, one of America's fiercest storms, killed more than 100 people and devastated tens of thousands of properties. Read full story

Hoesung Lee, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , told the news conference "the stakes have never been higher" in the need to stem global warming.

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