Posted on 02/10/2011 4:54:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Brussels (AP) - Prince Charles lashed out Wednesday at climate change skeptics, saying they are playing "a reckless game of roulette" with the planet's future.
Skeptics are having a "corrosive effect" on public opinion, the British heir to the throne added.
"Their suggestion, that hundreds of scientists around the world ... are somehow unconsciously biased, creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine and deliberately destroy the entire market-based capitalist system," he said.
Many doubters -- particularly in the United States -- have dismissed scientific evidence supporting warming of the earth due to human activity, arguing that the large majority of scientists are wrong, or the consequences of warming overstated.
Charles asked: "How are these people going to face their grandchildren and admit to them that they failed their future?"
Along with top officials of the European Union, Charles was addressing the Low Carbon Prosperity Summit, a conference devoted to engaging more European businesses in promoting a low-carbon economy.
In a speech to a packed European Parliament chamber, Charles touched on topics ranging from the need to protect fisheries and the Amazon rain forest, to making low-carbon emissions affordable and competitive.
Charles, who has been active in promoting environmental issues, was asked to participate in the conference in order to raise public awareness throughout Europe.
"Your presence brings added value and attention to this important issue," EU President Herman Van Rompuy said.
The prince is a patron of the Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership, which works with business, government and civil society to promote a sustainable economic future.
Prince AssClown.
How 7th century
Prince Charles lost his mind years ago, oh well.
It's as if he's honest, and really that stupid.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Prince Charles. What a dolt.
Can’t they bypass this nut and make William the next King???
Royalty is inherited...i/e., you don't have to be smart to be the future King of England!
Probably one of the most succinct statement of the alarmists' goals I've seen.
Chuckles the Clown Prince ought to STFU and stick to cutting ribbons and stop venturing politic opinions, considering his future role as an apolitical constitutional monarch...
Horceface and the entire criminal enterprise that is the British Monarchy should be swinging from the end of a rope.
FUPC
Like Charlie can be trusted
http://www.showbizspy.com/article/225404/prince-charles-has-alzheimers-disease.html
BRITAIN’S Prince Charles is not a well man.
According to a report from America’s Globe magazine, the British royal will never become king because he’s suffering from memory loss and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
The 62-year-old heir to the throne has reportedly show troubling signs of having the disease.
Charles is married to a woman called Camilla Parker-Bowles, who’s said to be stunned at his memory loss.
No one said the bias was unconscious.
... creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine and deliberately destroy the entire market-based capitalist system," he said.
The prince believes in free-market entrepreneurial capitalism? Really?
“Their suggestion, that hundreds of scientists around the world ... are somehow unconsciously biased, creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine and deliberately destroy the entire market-based capitalist system,”
1) They are consciously biased.
2) At least he admits the result of pretending to combat AGW, would be to destroy the entire market-based capitalist system
When they deliberately go in front of the camera, all bets are off. Shut up Chuck!
There. Fixed it.
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