‘1) Climate change has grave implications. “Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost forever,” he writes.’

via 10 key excerpts from Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment – The Washington Post.

‘Pope Francis has delivered a scathing indictment of the global economy. In his long-awaited encyclical on the environment, officially released today, he blames consumerism for the degradation of the planet.’

via Pope Francis Calls For Urgent Action On Climate Change In Encyclical : NPR.

“…Overall, climate change is expected to stunt plant growth.”

via The Weird Effect Climate Change Will Have On Plant Growth | TIME.

‘Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday’

via Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate | Environment | The Guardian.

‘It’s been seven bruising political years since farm organizations dared utter the “c word” when discussing extreme weather and drought, but farmer Alan Merrill says climate change can’t go unmentioned any longer.’

via Farmers Union publishes reports on climate change effects on agriculture.

‘Paris (AFP) – The widest global effort yet to gauge citizens’ views on climate change showed 79 percent to be “very concerned” about its effects, but less than half support a carbon tax to curb emissions, organisers said Sunday.’

via Global citizens ‘very concerned’ about climate: poll – Yahoo News.

‘With little negotiating time left ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris later this year, diplomats from nearly 200 countries meeting in Bonn have reportedly made little progress, raising the possibility of a last-minute diplomatic fiasco, as happened in Copenhagen in 2009.’

via Africa sounds the alarm over crucial climate summit | Global development | The Guardian.

‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for the Group of Seven industrial powers to throw their weight behind a long-standing pledge to seek $100 billion to help poor countries tackle climate change.’

via Merkel Urges G7 to Throw Weight Behind Climate Fund – ABC News.

‘…in an interview on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday (June 3), President Obama said that enforcing climate change regulations will indeed be part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Obamatrade pact that he is currently negotiating with Malaysia and 10 other countries.’

via Blog: Obama admits that climate change will be in Obamatrade.

‘…As Exxon Mobil’s Rex Tillerson — the highest-paid chief executive of the richest fossil fuel firm on the planet — gave his talk, the death toll from India’s heat wave mounted and pictures circulated on the Internet of Delhi’s pavement literally melting. Meanwhile, satellite images showed Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf on the edge of disintegration.’

via How mankind blew the fight against climate change – The Washington Post.