Posted on 06/27/2007 4:34:02 AM PDT by theothercheek
An annual accounting of Prince Charles’s households - printed on recycled paper in vegetable-based ink – finds that he has cut his annual carbon emissions by nine percent, to 3,775 tons, between April 1, 2006 and March 31 of this year. He achieved this historical feat by cutting back on helicopter jaunts and converting his Jag and Landie to run on used cooking oil, reports The Associated Press. The prince offset the other 91 percent of emissions created by his households - the Highgrove estate in western England, Clarence House in London and Birkhall in Scotland - by investing $60,000, in an agency that promotes tree planting and sustainable energy projects, meaning that his royal lifestyle is now "carbon-neutral."
Meanwhile, an online poll suggests that most of the err-to-the-throne’s subjects think he’s rather daft on the subject of global warming. The survey of 4,000 people found that 71 percent believe global warming is a natural phenomenon and not caused by carbon emissions, and that 65 percent think that climate scientists’ doomsday scenarios are tommy-rot. The poll was conducted by Pocket Issue (a British firm that publishes three "Cliff’s Notes"-type briefs: "The Energy Crisis," "Global Warming" and "Middle East Conflict").
Alarmed that the Orwellian brainwashing techniques used by the BBC and other mass media are inexplicably ineffective, Pocket Issue publisher Emma Hardcastle says, "[T]he poll highlights the need for government and influential bodies to concentrate on getting the public to understand the facts about global warming and ‘why’ rather than ‘how’ they should reduce their carbon footprint."
[Editorial Note: Not only trees spew methane into the atmosphere, but earthworms living in the soil surrounding their roots produce greenhouse gases 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to a German study of commercial composting of organic waste (the "green" alternative to landfills). Further, the very concept of offsetting one’s carbon footprint is bogus. Buying carbon offsets has become the secular equivalent of buying indulgences – and neither purchase will turn a sinner into a saint.]
‘The whole Monarchy is a waste of energy.’
Yeah, we need a system more like yours that elects people like Carter and Clinton to represent your country. . . . .
I am so sick of trendy catch phrases like ‘carbon neutral’ that I could puke. I’d like to find the person who first coined this term and punch them right in the mouth.
Camilla wears high heels?
She borrows Chuck’s.
Did you know that the Prince of Wales, Charles, has commissioned the Westminister Cathedral to stage a new musical work based on Qur’an — it sets the 99 names of Allah to music, to be intoned over an hour and a half with choir, full orchestra and Tibetan gongs?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/016633.php
And bigger ears!
Yeeeouch! Now that smarts!
However, you our most dear good old cousins could do with a little more of the good old Tudor punch.
These Hanoverians of yours have become all too mild.
Drawing and quartering a George Galloway or two would put matters right in a jiffy.
At the risk of being accused of eco-fascism, or eco-phila, or whatever, it should be noted that polls do not in fact represent any useful data with regard to science. The reality is the professionals opinion are really the only ones which could be argued actually matter. The 71 percent may be right, but not because they are 71 percent.
LOL!
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