From the UK Express
PRINCE CHARLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS ARE ALL LIARS
Charles, who has campaigned on global warming for more than 20 years, said: “I have watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the sceptics have leapt upon the recent news stories that question the science that climate change is man-made and suggesting it is nothing more than a myth.
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| Prince Charles: ‘I’m not willing to play Russian Roulette over climate change’ |
“Well, if it is but a myth, and the global scientific community is involved in some sort of conspiracy, why is it then that around the globe sea levels are more than six inches higher than they were 100 years ago?
“This isn’t an opinion – it is a fact.”
He added: “And, ladies and gentlemen please be in no doubt that the evidence of long-term and potentially irreversible changes to our world is utterly overwhelming.”
Charles spoke after arriving in Manchester by Royal Train pulled by a coal-fired steam locomotive, named the Tornado, which was rebuilt from a 1948 design.
Read the entire article at the UK Express
First let me say that I like trains. But Charles apparently has no clue about how such a pronouncement might be viewed by commoners when he’s apparently doing nothing to curb his own carbon footprint. Will Jim Hansen denounce him for riding on a coal powered “death train”?
Charles also seems to think that sea level is a static feature of our dynamic Earth. Here’s a few reminders about sea level change the prince probably hasn’t discussed in polite conversations. He might also benefit from a visit to Israel, where sea level has been variable for the last 2500 years.
Here’s the last 9000 years which appear almost flat in the graph above due to scale used:
In our current era, while sea level has in fact been rising, continuing the trend started thousands of years ago, it recently appears to have slowed a bit:
Clearly we live in the golden age of relative stability, but Earth is very seldom that way. The rise of man just happened to get lucky…thanks to a warming world.
But who to believe, a coal powered prince or your own lying eyes?
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Poor dear Charles has lost his marbles! You can tell just by looking at him.
Here in Canada, I’d vote to get rid of the monarchy just to lose whacky Charlie!
It’s warmed over the last 100 years.
SL is up 6 inches.
Man has made a “potentially irreversible impact”.
Two words:
DUH.
AND?
Meanwhile, do we have a skeptic alive who does NOT believe this?
We need to thank Chuck for continually reminding us why the entire concept of “Royalty” is such a bad idea, and why here in the former colonies our ancestors chose to dump the entire idea in the trash 230 years ago.
I’ve always thought that if there were anyone more stump-dumb than Al Gore it is Prince Charles. My opinion verified.
Time for Australia to become a republic.
The IPCC: International Pact of Climate Crooks
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/ipcc_international_pack_of_cli.html
John-Daly dot com has a pic of mean tide carved into a rock in Tasmaina, looks like sea level now is unchanged since 1841 …
“1841 sea level benchmark (centre) on the `Isle of the Dead’, Tasmania. According to Antarctic explorer, Capt. Sir James Clark Ross, it marked mean sea level in 1841 …”
Wonder what Charlie’s eldest son thinks? I’m happy to make him king of Oz if he comes out and says AGW is a crock.
It’s comments like these that make me understand why the Queen hasn’t stepped aside yet.
…… and spoke of the “alarming messages” from explorers such as Pen Hadow about the melting polar regions.
Is this a post-modern Monty Python sketch ??
As I’ve said many times, you may have a high level of education, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you are wise.
I suggest HRH Chuck isn’t too wise.
I was going to post a scene from the Ruling Class, but this twit is an entire order of magnitude more insane than O’Toole was in that film.
He offsets his carbon footprint by getting the rest of us to reduce luxury items like energy, food and private transport.
Do leave Charles alone. He is really quite harmless. Canada , Australia and New Zealand will soon enough become republics anyway – whatever Charlie’s views on Sea Level Rise, Global Warming or anything else may be. And England will be a state of Europe!
Quote: Jerry (20:24:40) : “I’ve always thought that if there were anyone more stump-dumb than Al Gore it is Prince Charles. My opinion verified.”
I think it’s a close tie.
Oliver K. Manuel
I really wonder how many people the six inch rise in the 1900’s have killed. My guess, not one.
What Charles is really trying to tell us commoners that if he had lived 125 years ago he would have created a UN with an IPCC division to scream at humanity of the imposing and devastating 6 inch rise approaching to decimate the 1900’s. Charles, relax, go enjoy your choo-choo.
Unfortunately Prince Charles is the Prince of Wales, where I believe the sea level is rising. If he was the Prince of Scotland he might find that sea level is falling i.e. the land mass is still rising after removal of the ice sheet from the last ice age. The same with most of Scandinavia.
Ron (20:29:55), my take on the IPCC is the Ideological Pursuit of Carbon Control.
Anthony,
Great juxtaposition-
The Prince saddled by dogma vs. the studies of 2500 years of variation in sea level.
If he can live long enough he will see the level go down, at the next ice age if not before.
“why is it then that around the globe sea levels are more than 400 feet higher than they were 20,000 years ago?”
The Queen will hold on until she is 120 if she has to – to keep him off the throne.
However, the queen ain’t no genius either. I am decidedly unimpressed with Briton’s loyalty. From the queen right on down to the queen’s 3rd cousin once removed. For all that loyal education, ya think ya’ll could come up with a “smarter” be-jeweled majesty. Or at least the offspring.
But, who am I to talk. I voted for Obummer.
“Steve Goddard (20:52:58) :
The Queen will hold on until she is 120 if she has to – to keep him off the throne.”
He will never succeed to the throne, he’s not popular enough in the eyes of the British public. His son, William, will.
What a coincidence!
I too have “watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the” warmists rammed through Bad Science and almost pulled off a coup that would have crippled our entire civilization.
It’s too easy, mocking this dim bulb. God Save The Queen… PLEASE… the alternative is charles.
I can’t relate how it is to be as rich as royalty. He can do whatever he wants. The world is his playground. He can sit on a train instBut I do sccraead of a plane—he’s got the time, he’s got all the time in the world.
But I’m not so dumb to think that he’s making less co2 by taking a train that has black smoke poring out of the smoke stack than he would be making on a plane.
Chuck and I are the same vintage, and ever since he became an expert on London architecture, I’ve been a little embarrassed about the fact. Long live the Queen.