Beam me to Planet Gore !
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 ...
...and being the seat of all knowledge, power and intellectual curiosity that Rio is — his warning will probably be well received. Yet another third world country determining the fate of mankind. I know I'm just frickin’ underwhelmed.
The Royals aren’t all that “inbred” ~ you’d think so, but they pretty much kept to the Frankish standard of no closer than 4 degrees of consanguinity, which was plenty sufficient to keep them more diverse than the commoners and lower nobles ~ and yet close enough related to keep the money in their safe hands eh!
You all knew that every now and then “outsiders” were brought in for various purposes. For instance, Christopher Columbus was married to a Braganza Princess ~ that was before his voyages of discovery.
So who was Chris that he could just marry a princess?
Think about that one awhile!
“Charles The Insipid”..
He has a fine taste in horses..
He knows horses, hell he married one...
It is funny that with all this supposedly “accurate” science all of their findings come out to nice, round numbers (10 years, 100 months, etc.). Almost like they are making them up and forgetting to randomize...
Does anyone pay any attention to this Alfred E. Neuman, besides his mother?
And gorillas...........
Global warming's a hoax - he looks like a fool concentrating on it.
When Her Majesty Elizabeth II dies, it would be best for William to ascend to the throne, not Charles.
Charles hasn't the "juice" to be king any more.
Yet another prophet of the world’s end. There have been many over the years.
“He knows horses, hell he married one...”
Very true!
Is he going to be dead by then? Maybe he’ll choke on some fish and chips while his second wife models a burqa.
I figure if he’s right, he won’t be king for long — if he gets to be king at all.
Bookmark
100mos=8yrs+
About right.
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