What can be said of Price Charles other than he is a "royal jerk" of uncommon proportions?
According to London's Daily Telegraph...
"Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster"
"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."
"Prince Charles has warned of 'disaster' if urgent steps are not taken to protect the forests."
I wonder if his "royal decree" can alter the solar output, change the dynamics of plate tectonics, alter the balance of water vapor in the air -- or do anything at all to affect the conditions which are said, by scientists, to be the drivers of natural climate change?
It's all about the money...
"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."
Based on what: computer models or royal intuition?
"'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 vapor and absorbing carbon, were being lost to poor farmers desperate to make a living."
"He said that every year, 20 million hectares of forest – equivalent to the area of England, Wales and Scotland – were destroyed and called for a 'gigantic partnership' of governments, businesses and consumers to slow it down."
How? By pumping money into corrupt political leaders and their friends? Relocating the indigent to England?
"'What we have got to do is try to ensure that these forests are more valuable alive than dead. At the moment, there is more value in them being dead,' he said."
Prince Charles, the insurance actuary...
"He estimated that the cost would be about £15 billion a year but said that this should be viewed as an insurance policy for the whole world. 'That is roughly just under one per cent of all the insurance premiums paid in the world in any one year. It is an insurance premium to ensure the world has some rainfall and reasonable weather patterns. It is a good deal.'"
Aha! The true rationale... "politics and money"
"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".
A McSolution to weather control?
"In an interview on Radio 4's Today programme, the Prince disclosed that he had raised his concerns with the White House, Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and President Sarkozy, of France. He said he had pressed Barclays, Shell, Goldman Sachs and McDonald's to join his campaign."
This won't do it...
"But he also said consumers had to play their part by choosing products that were environmentally sustainable and called for improvements in labeling."
Enabling what? More political corruption?
He denied, however, that he was interfering in the political process. "All I am ever trying to do is to provide an enabling facility," he said.
A blinding idiot, by his own words...
He conceded that at times he had been forced to keep his counsel when he would have liked to have spoken out. "You learn as you go along. I am going to be 60 this year. I would be a blinding idiot if I had not learnt a bit by now."
The problem is: you are a "blinding idiot" and you need to study the matter beyond listening to the political types and special interests driving the speculative scheme that is for "cap and trade" carbon credits and emissions trading.
Are you so blind as not to see the truth: the polluters would be given a pass to continue polluting and pass the cost of the mitigating "carbon credits" along to the public. Are you so blind as to not notice that man cannot change planetary dynamics with today's technology. Try building a cheap, mass production vehicle with today's accoutrements that gets 100 miles to the gallon with any fuel before you decide that man can alter the oceanic tidal flows and plug CO2-emitting volcanoes.
In science, royal pronouncements have even less weight than the O2/CO2 that carries them on the wind.
What can YOU do?
Jerks with a title are still jerks.
The probability that man can alter the progression of natural forces in a hundred lifetimes, let along 18 months is highly suspect.
Study the subject. Listen to the scientists. Subtract the political policy and special interest rhetoric and you have a starting point to discuss global climate change.
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Reference Links:
Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster - Telegraph
I wonder if Prince Charles reads the scholarly literature?
I find it hard to take someone who wants to be a "tampon" seriously.
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