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Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster
Telegraph UK ^ | Last Updated: 1:08PM BST 18/05/2008 | Andrew Pierce

Posted on 05/18/2008 9:49:26 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch

The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.

In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire consequences.

"We will end up seeing more drought and starvation on a grand scale. Weather patterns will become even more terrifying and there will be less and less rainfall," he said.

"We are asking for something pretty dreadful unless we really understand the issues now and [the] urgency of them." The Prince said the rainforests, which provide the "air conditioning system for the entire planet", releasing water vapour and absorbing carbon, were being lost to poor farmers desperate to make a living.

[snip] Last month, the Prince had a meeting at St James's Palace with four state governors from Brazil to discuss the best way to allocate the money. One option would be for an organisation such as the World Bank to administer the fund. The Prince made clear yesterday that if nothing was done there was a "severe danger of losing a major part of the battle against climate change".

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cliamtechange; climate; climatechange; globalwarming
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To: ApplegateRanch

"It's all going to end soon. Might as well enjoy myself."

81 posted on 05/19/2008 3:16:55 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Yep...it’s true and all the world’s oil supply was going to be gone by 1990!
Someone PLEASE...give these people a BRAIN!


82 posted on 05/19/2008 3:35:34 AM PDT by Cricket24 (ULTRA PATRIOT!!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
repent

83 posted on 05/19/2008 3:44:37 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: ApplegateRanch
I'm sorry, but a guy who looks like this who had a wife who looked like this but spent his time with instead with a woman who looks like this has no business telling anyone anything.
84 posted on 05/19/2008 3:45:08 AM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Raycpa

exactly the opposite. if it takes longer than 18 months, that’ll be touted as a successful campaign to stave it off, requiring more money in the future to ensure the planet doesn’t warm..


85 posted on 05/19/2008 4:09:42 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.liberallunacy.bravehost.com..I'm a Patriot Guard Rider. www.patriotguard.org for info.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Shut up, Chuck.


86 posted on 05/19/2008 4:12:05 AM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Poor Prince Charlie Windsor.

Nothing is so sad as to see a prince in waiting for so long and so unemployed.

Reminds me of Edward VII.

By the time Queen Victoria died he was in late middle age, tired, and in poor health.

87 posted on 05/19/2008 4:18:36 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ah, yes——Prince Charles. The “Paul Ehrlich” of the British monarchy. I wonder if he is open to a bet.


88 posted on 05/19/2008 4:44:49 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: TheBattman

“What special training and qualifications makes the ole’ Prince so qualified to push such dramatic actions on the climate?”

He and Al Gore have a corner on carbon creditz...


89 posted on 05/19/2008 4:58:33 AM PDT by mo
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To: andyandval

Gore: It must be Michael Moore ‘cause all the polar bears are dead!


90 posted on 05/19/2008 5:23:17 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Cricket24
1990?!? Where'd all that 'new' oil come from?

According my grammar & middle school (graduated HS 1964) books, we ran out by 1975; and we're using the last lump of coal as I type keyboard!

91 posted on 05/19/2008 11:17:09 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: SunkenCiv; steelyourfaith; cubreporter

16 months down; 2 to go.

WHERE’S THE “DISASTER”?


92 posted on 08/22/2009 12:27:01 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Can Charlie sit down and go line by line explaining himself cause I for one have NO IDEA WHAT IN THE HELL HE IS TALKING ABOUT.


93 posted on 08/22/2009 7:29:55 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Enchante

Can’t even comment on that silly, ridiculous statement he made. So, all I can say is...”Ribbon Cuttings” must be slow these days.


94 posted on 08/22/2009 7:31:46 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: ApplegateRanch; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

95 posted on 08/24/2009 1:16:08 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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