Glasgow COP26: It's James Bond moment to save planet, says Boris Johnson

UK's Johnson warns of 'doomsday' as climate summit begins

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the global climate summit on Monday, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device”. Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth’s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and trying to work out how to defuse it.

“We are in roughly the same position my fellow global leaders as James Bond today except that the tragedy is this is not a movie… the doomsday device is real... it’s ‘one minute to midnight’ to prevent climate catastrophe.”

The threat is climate change triggered by the burning