"Twenty grand for summer camp, and he's Mr. Woo Woo."
Posted on 03/07/2008 1:27:53 AM PST by Entrepreneur
Charles said that he was able to briefly discuss the issue of climate change with both President George Maxwell Richards and Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Tuesday.
"Unfathomably however, there still seem to be some climbing skeptics, those who view the case of rapid action to counter climate change is overstated or indeed completely invented," he added.
"If I may speak plainly among friends, this is sheer madness. The scientific facts are as plain as they are alarming. Worryingly in the last few months we have learnt that the North Polar ice cap is melting so fast that some scientists are predicting that in seven years it will completely disappear in summer."
"You know only too well in Trinidad that your coastline is being encroached upon by rising sea levels and the danger this poses for supplies of drinking water. Is this not just the latest in a series of evermore-urgent wake up calls that should alert us to the alarming fact that we are literally destroying our own life support mechanisms? And yet there are those who think we should do nothing but very much, at any rate, very little to disturb the business as usual approach. Quite simply we are not doing nearly enough to stop it or doing it fast enough."
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Worryingly in the last few months we have learnt that the North Polar ice cap is melting so fast that some scientists are predicting that in seven years it will completely disappear in summer.
Uh, sorry Prince. A few days ago, Bill Steigerwald, writing in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, noted that the ice is back...
NASA says recent satellite images show that the allegedly endangered polar ice cap -- which will melt completely one of these summers and kill off all the polar bears if we don't slash our greedy carbon footprints and revert to the lifestyles of medieval peasants -- has recovered to near normal coverage levels... There's even better news for polar ice-pack lovers from ice expert Gilles Langis, who says Arctic ice is now even thicker than usual in spots.
Of course, it appears the Arctic ice pack grows or shrinks due to ocean currents and winds, accroding to published reports in Science Daily, Science, and New Scientist.
You know only too well in Trinidad that your coastline is being encroached upon by rising sea levels and the danger this poses for supplies of drinking water.
First, melting Arctic ice would make no difference in sea levels since the ice is already in the sea. Even Gore got this right. Maybe the royals have a little too much inbreeding.
Next, there's not even "consensus" whether warming will raise or lower ocean levels. According to a BBC News Report, sea levels may fall. Other reports show no acceleration in Pacific sea levels. It also turns out that some sea level measurements get screwed up because sediment gets compacted. This brings to mind the problem of getting good temperature data, per the SurfaceStations.org project. It's also amusing that an 1841 British survey of Tasmania involved marking sea levels on a set rocks by the water. The marks are still there, but are 30 centimeters above the water, indicating that sea level has fallen or Tasmania has risen.
Trinidad itself shows a whopping 1 mm per year rise on one part of the island, but 4 mm elsewhere. Since the sea level must be the same on both sides of the island, either the sediment is compacting or tectonic activity is lowering Trinidad. This is hardly anthropogenic (i.e., human caused).
It's important to learn the facts and source them so that we're equipped to counter some of the nonsense tossed out by the greenies.
I have to admit, if there is anyone who should know about “sheer madness”, it is Price Charles.
Inbred lunatic!
*Dangerous* inbred lunatic.
He has a big soap box, and people will listen to his ravings.
He plays at architectural expert, too.
Charles, George III was mad, George IV was a dolt, James I was a sniveling sodomite, and...uh...learn something from your ancestors: it’s better if you SHUT UP.
"Twenty grand for summer camp, and he's Mr. Woo Woo."
Man, if there ever was a sell signal on the global warming hysteria, it would have to be Prince Charles spouting off about it.
Just a little musing here but I wonder how much it takes to heat one of his drafty ole castles?
And unless he swam to Trinidad, he should have done his part by never taking a jet plane so as to reduce carbon emissions. I am sure the happy citizens of Trinidad would have benefitted more from his non-presence. It is hard to believe that his utterances would have been viewed by Trinidadians as worthwhile.
“It’s not what we don’t know that’s the problem, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”
Mark Twain (or some other darn person)
Well, he is a fair artist. I sold one of his books on Ebay.
As for climate, he should defer to REAL climatologist, not the Goreons with their ALscams.
I think that the fact that he has been “underemployed” for so long has done him in.
If Charles would stay at home instead of flying off to the Caribbean, he would reduce his carbon footprint.
Just another way of saying, “More for me, Less for you.”
Will someone lock this cretin away in the Tower? He is living proof that royalty in general inbreeds. Is he hemophiliac, as well?
Don’t let a few fussy facts get in the way of Prince Tampon’s opinion.
What is the story behind that picture? It looks like he is having a methane attack.
LOL.
I've lost the link, but I believe it was a taken at a ceremony at the Castle of Mey.
I saved the pic to my hard drive because Prince Chuckles was caught in a particularly dopey-looking-inbred moment, and he being such a vocal Ecotard and all.
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