Posted on 03/09/2009 12:02:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.
Prince Charles will say that the need to tackle global warming is more urgent than ever before and that, even in a global recession, the world must not lose sight of the "bigger picture".
His warning will be delivered on Thursday in a keynote speech in Rio de Janeiro.
Aides believe it will echo one he gave in Sao Paulo in 1991 at the start of the last recession, when he warned that caring for the world's long term welfare must not become a "luxury".
The intervention will help to put the environment at the top of the political agenda ahead of the meeting of G20 leaders in London next month.
The Prince starts a ten-day tour of South America today during which he will be playing an elevated role as an international statesman working on behalf of the Government to support British interests on key issues.
Senior sources have revealed that Gordon Brown's Government wants to make more use on the foreign stage of Prince Charles's experience, expertise and contacts, particularly on climate change.
Government officials believe that the Prince's passion to protect the environment is hugely respected abroad and that he can play an increasing important role as he inevitably moves closer to becoming king.
Some believe he is an "asset" that has been underused in the past and they want to use him more in a role of "soft diplomacy".
In Thursday's speech, the Prince will warn that a failure to act in the next eight years will have catastrophic effects for the planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
His judgment in science is equal to his judgment in women.............
“Prince Charles said....”
‘nuff said.
This is business-as-usual for the bureaucrat set.
A mental gnat
His relevance ceased when Diana Spencer divorced him. Only hope for the English monarchy is that his mother outlives him.
He must be wrapping his hajib too tightly these days.
Can't he just 8 1/2 years or does that not sound ominous enough?
Iran’s nuclear program?
The Royal Family now will be one of the first to cut way back on their consumption.
How did he get to Rio?
More hypocrisy.
Chas sez so? Well, that settles it for me!
People with big ears really tick me off, lately.
And Chuck's getting to Rio... by sailing ship?
You know, Europe has been here before, though the case was probably inverse: in Germany in the 1880’s, the capable Hohenzollern was Fritz, who became very ill and died after having ruled only a few years. His father ruled erratically for decades and was an emotional wreck whom Bismarck easily dominated and often brought to tears. His son Wilhelm, well, Wilhelm’s rock-headedness was one of the key factors eliminating an entire generation of men from Western Europe.
What we have now is the reverse: Charles is the rock-head and we hope that either William or Harry has good sense.
Too early to tell, but given the stakes, I’m seriously praying that it all works out right.
His Ear-ness has been a nutcase for many years...must be the centuries of aristocratic inbreeding.
I think he travels by Magical Thinking. It's what this type specializes in.
And how much carbon is he expending on this propaganda tour? The Queen needs to live long enough that this bag of hot air is never king.
In the late 1970’s, Jimmy Carter told us the worlds ‘fossil fuels will be depleated’.
IN 1989, Ted Danson announced on the Tonight Show ‘By the year 2000, the worlds oceans will be completely dead, devoid of all life...’
For the record, today is March 9th, 2008.
I drove my HUMMER 2 to work this morning, after filling the tank with some of that ‘depleated fossil fuel’.
And had a fish sandwich from one of those oceans ‘devoid of life, dead’ for lunch.
And some wonder why I don’t take enviromentalists seriously....(eyes rolling)
Shut up Charles you ignorant slut.
Damned inbreeding.
Curious, how the urgency to fix climate change rises as government coffers dwindle during an extended period of Global Cooling.
Indeed. Two comforting thoughts in a world that's going to Hell in a handbasket.
If the goodly prince could just convince himself and Algore to live like the rest of us, the carbon footprint of mankind would be reduced 25% immediately.
Prince Charles: Proof why generations of selective inbreeding is a bad idea.
The only difference between the British Royal family and a trailer park in the hills of Appalachia is “carbon footprint.” At least our hillbillies can claim they are not hypocrites.
WOW, Prince Charles has figured out how to alter the Earth’s Orbit and modify the magnetic field cycle of the sun!?!?
Man, being ROYAL does have some power behind it....
/sarc
I guess Charles wants to be sure that he don't give his global warming speech in a snow blizzard as Al Gore has so many times.
Why is it that those who claim to be the most concerned about global warming and CO2 have some of the largest carbon footprints on the planet?
If the danger to the world’s economy is directly proportional to the size of his ears, we are all in deep doo-doo.
Oh, my. A house with credible pretensions to excellence dissolves into the pathologies of the elitist left: adultery and environmentalism.
I am obviously older than you, because I remember watching Jacques Cousteau saying the oceans would be dead by 1975. After that, people and animals would die off quickly.
That scared the sh*t out of me ( I was about 10, and we were supposed to watch his documentary as homework); it took a few more years before I realized how predictable it all was. It even has a name: apocalyptic politics.
Update your record. ;)
So Charles! whats is your cut?
"The whole...er.......you know......climate thingy, is now becoming......rather, rather serious......."
"One doesn't want to....er.......exaggerate the danger of this.....er........you know......warming situation, but I've noticed that my own organic crops are now.......somewhat.....er..........looking rather the worse for wear............"
".....and so one has to try to.......er........raise, so to speak, the collective......er........consciousness......Zzzzzzzzz"
Wow. Chuck's moving fast on this one. Usually the nut bags give us a full 10 years.
Lucky for us, bonnie Prince Charlie consented to take some time off from his busy polo schedule to save the world!
“When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?” - Robin Williams
The world ended in 1980.
LOL
from "The Big Book of British Smiles" The Simpsons.
An inbred rich kid with nothing to do. Lovely.
We must all pray that Queen Elizabeth outlives this tampon wannabe....
Charles makes a strong case supporting elimination of the monarchy....
Snowing here now, not the usually CLIMATE for this area.
I WANT GLOBAL WARMING NOW!!!
God Save the Queen.....We Mean It, Man!
It goes back even farther. I think it was 1986 that Ted Danson said we have 10 years to save the oceans. He now admits it was “hyperbole” (not a LIE) designed to get attention to the issue.
Socialists lie. Always.
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