Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows.
From Raw Story: Prince Charles criticizes ‘corporate lobbyists’ and climate change skeptics for turning Earth into a ‘dying patient’
“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem,” he told an audience of government ministers, from the UK and abroad, as well as businesspeople and scientists. “A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can’t wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.”
He added: “The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”
Apparently, second opinions aren’t allowed by Royal medicine. The Daily Mash has the story of the irony meteorite.
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The beneficiary of the queen’s death was criticising climate change scepticism when he was struck on the forehead by a large, possibly homeopathic, chunk of irony.
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Health and safety consultant Nikki Hollis said: “Science is pretty sturdy and can generally cope with a person warning about CO2 emissions whilst being chauffeured around in a big fuck-off Bentley.
“But if you start using a doctor analogy like Charles did, when you’re convinced a £20 bottle of ghosts is the best treatment for serious illness, something’s bound to give.”
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Full story here
Marc Morano quips:
There’s more regarding the doctor analogy:
In many cases, the doctor is only treating symptoms, not the actual cause. This is obvious by the high number of symptom removing medicines, like pain killers. (Pain is not a cause, only a symptom.)
Of course in order to diagnose the patient You first have to determine if They are in fact running an abnormally high or low temperature to start with , to determine that You need to know what the right temperature is , for a human that is 36.8° ± 0.4°C taken from under the tongue , for planet earth the right temperature is what and taken from where exactly ?
Tom in Florida says:
May 10, 2013 at 7:23 am
“So if the child has a viral infection and you give him/her a massive dose of antibiotics, what have you accomplished except for endangering their life. If it was a bacterial infection and you used antiviral therapy, same outcome. What is that old adage, oh yes: Primum non nocere.”
Yes. But more like: if your child has a fever, give him radiation treatments, chemotherapy, and remove a kidney. Can’t afford to wait for more tests, you know.
No wonder the Queen is trying to hold onto power as long as she possibly can.
Poor Chuckles. Do you suppose this is a result of inbreeding? We former colonists owe the (formerly) Great Britain a debt of gratitude. Everything that these United States has become was founded in English common law and the English Reformation. Current events there bring only sorrow to me; I find no schadenfreude in it.
May God Bless Britain, these United States, and the Great State of Texas.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
Keitho says: May 10, 2013 at 7:51 am
“…….He believes that talking to his plants help them grow ………..”
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Actually, the consensus is clear and the science is settled. Talking to your plants increases the CO2 in their vicinity and makes them Happy. Sort of like the cows in California, except the cows are eating marijuana plants.
(For the Ausländers: Here in these United States, there is a series of TV commercials representing California dairy products as soooo good because the cows are “happy”. My supposition is that they are given marijuana, after all, they ARE from California.)
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
Hopefully the Queen will live a long healthy life like her mother. A carbon tax is like applying leeches to a patient with a fever. The tax money that is left over after government wastes a
good portion of it will be used to woo voters with handouts. Another nail in the coffin for the economy. The EPA declaring Co2 a poison gas is one. Who wants to start a business anymore that emits Co2?
“Steamboat Jack says:
May 10, 2013 at 8:09 am”
The British Royal (Pretty much all of them before Dianna hence the “commoner” wife) family are German descendants hence, in WW1, due to anti-German sentiment, the royal name Battenberg was changed to Mountbatten. The British Royal family Crown Jewels are, mostly, remnants of the Russian Royal family “wealth”.
More and more we see AGW proponents advocating: “The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait…”
It appears that as additional years go by without any warming, they are becoming increasingly desperate and shrill: Ignore that there is no warming!!!! Act now!!!! We can’t wait!!!! The sky is falling!!!! Science be damned!!! The world is ending, I tell you!!!!!
Chuck probably longs for the days when kings ruled by divine right and had absolute rule. But then, quite a few were deposed or overthrown.
Too bad for Chucky that IQ and ear size do not correlate.
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Don’t you Americans commenting here see how lucky you are not to have a Royal family (well not unless you count the Kardashians). Royalty is fine in principle but it all comes a bit unstuck when you have so much inbreeding you end up with a thicko who believes in homeopathy.
Hopefully the Queen holds on long enough to outlive the chinless wonder. The next generation looks a good bit more promising.
pyeatte says:
May 10, 2013 at 7:55 am
He is ready for a part in a Monty Python skit.
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Sorry, he’s already done one. Remember the “Upper Class Twit of the Year contest?”
Taphonomic says:
May 10, 2013 at 8:26 am
Chuck probably longs for the days when kings ruled by divine right and had absolute rule. But then, quite a few were deposed or overthrown.
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Don’t forget what happened to the *first* English king named Charles. ‘Tho I think if this one were to lose his head it wouldn’t impede his support of CAGW theory in the least.
The greatest irony of all is that the successor to the throne has to be a neomonarchist.
God Save the Queen.
It would be fun to assemble a top 10 list of the people with the largest carbon footprint on the planet and put it out as a press release. Charles would surely make the list.
mandobob says:
May 10, 2013 at 7:56 am
There is no secret why the Queen continues to hold the crown. Although there is always a Mother’s love, all moms can see the “writing on the wall” and she continues to protect the UK from his “barmyness”.
The Queen has never “protected” the UK from anything. She’s a mere puppet, and happy to be so for the sake of self-preservation and the preservation of The Family. And that includes disregarding her duty to uphold the Bill of Rights, and to happily sign away the UK’s sovereignty. She really never had any choice if she wanted to continue to exist as Queen with all the trappings that brings. But let’s not pretend she’s ever been interested in “protecting” the UK.
Traditionally, patients voluntarily elect to go to a real doctor, with a real illness. Often, they decide not to accept treatment when the cure is far worse than the disease, or when there is a serious risk of death by iatrogenic illness. If the enormous doctor bills are accompanied by irreversible alteration of all body functions and replacement of healthy limbs with prosthetics, because the doctor is an adherent of the Precautionary Principle, the patient rejects any further discussion.
So that was the fastest break down of an analogy in history! (:
To just pursue Prince Charles metaphor: “If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests.” So, we must throw chicken bones on the floor and sacrifice a goat.
It’s the age-old logical fallacy of ‘Something must be done. A is something. We must do A’. So beloved of people with an agenda.
The planet is just fine, but mankind itself has an illness called Climatus Encephalitic Goreosis™. It has a tendency to strike those with little in the way of gray matter such as Prince Chuckles, and the symptoms are wide-ranging, and can be severe, leading to hallucinations of earning Nobel Prizes, and making wild, unsupported claims about coming disasters Unless We Act Now. The only known cure is actual science, and a good dose of reality and pragmatism which, surprisingly, some find distasteful.
A story in the Norwegian daily Aftenposten (I would post a link, but it is in Norwegian) has reported that the Duchy of Cornwall (Prince Charles’ estate) has closed an organic vegetable shop near to to his Highgrove estate due to poor sales. Charles has had a business selling organic veggies for many years (with no-one mentioning any conflict of interest of course), but now it seems demand has gone down – presumably as people have better things to do with their money in the UK (paying their energy bills maybe?).
You can still buy his veggies on-line though. I wonder how that squares with his aversion to modern technology?
“David, UK says:
May 10, 2013 at 8:48 am”
Its not just the UK. She is also the HoS of Australia (Canada and New Zealand too if I recall as well as many other countries), and there are people here who believe “The Queen” has some sort of all encompassing “power” over an elected “Govn’t”. The British Royal “Monarch” has had no “power” in political decisions in Australia since federation in 1901. A “constitutional monarchy” (Australia) is one thing, so too is a republic. Don’t confuse the two.
Ironically the medical analogy is quite appropriate for Chucky and his environmentalist beleaguered nation. After all the NHS rathar famously, or infamously depending on your POV, developed the “Liverpool Care Pathway” for “dying patients”, which basically involves depriving them of nutrition and hydration until they are dead. Initially received as “kinder and gentler” than extending existence with intrusive machines and futile therapies, it has evolved into something a bit different.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255054/60-000-patients-death-pathway-told-minister-says-controversial-end-life-plan-fantastic.html
60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told but minister still says controversial end-of-life plan is ‘fantastic’
Pathway involves the sick being sedated and usually denied nutrition and fluids
Families kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said pathway was a ‘fantastic step forward’
Anti-euthanasia group said: ‘The Pathway is designed to finish people off double quick’
If you think about the path the Brits have put themselves on because of anti carbon demonization it’s starting to look an awful lot like an effort to put the whole country on the ” Liverpool Care Pathway”
“Rob Potter says:
May 10, 2013 at 9:07 am”
Maybe he just stopped talking to plants(vegetables). He *IS* famous for talking to plants…
“The problem with insatiable greed….is that it is INSATIABLE”.
This inbred, mutant monarch already is the worlds largest landowner, see
http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-biggest-landwoners-2011-3?op=1
The “Crown” owns 6.6 BILLION acres, including all offshore UK territory that they LEASE to the the windmill/bird shredding industry vampire of the UK ratepayer. The UK installed dictator of Saudi Arabia owns 547 million acres (12% of QE II acreage). The UK monarchy equipped, trained and directed the Imperialist Japanese monarchy in the 1880’s. Following WW II, MacAthur was ORDERED to destroy all evidence of royal involvement in the cannibilism, medical experiments and other atrocities of the Pacific Theater.
A good summary of the royal WW II stage setting is in the series of history articles, “The Vacuum Under the Soetoro Sombrero”, “Housebreaking Your New Euro-snob” and”Overthrowing the Kit and Kaboddle”. It is time for a Modern Magna Carta…..with leg irons and solitary confinement for these anti-meritocracy monarchs.
I love being lectured to about being kind to the planet by a man who travels in a helicopter!