The royal prince in waiting of Britain labels climate skeptics as “headless chickens”.
From The Telegraph:
Prince Charles has criticised climate change deniers, describing them as the “headless chicken brigade” during an awards ceremony recognising a leading young green entrepreneur.
Charles, who has campaigned for years to reduce global warming, also spoke out against “the barrage of sheer intimidation” from powerful anti-climate change groups during the event held at Buckingham Palace last night.
The mark of a true leader is bringing people with diverse views and backgrounds together, clearly with this recent pronouncement, Prince Charles clearly has failed as a leader.
I’ll point out a few things the prince who may be king should know, but doesn’t, or chooses not to.
1. Rational climate skeptics don’t doubt that some portion of the proposed greenhouse effect is real, it’s just that nobody (and that includes many scientists) seems to be able to agree upon how much. The few who actually deny the Greenhouse effect exists, such as the “Slayers” aka “Principia Scientific” only represent the views of a fringe.
2. Item 1 then leads to arguments about climate sensitivity, values are literally “all over the map”:
3. The global climate isn’t responding as it was predicted by government scientists, the trend over the last 12 years is basically flat:
Compare that to climate sensitivity predictions, which center around .2°C
The three graphs above are from Michaels and Knappenberger in this post.
4. The response of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is nearing saturation, which may explain why there is little warming over the last 12 years:
Figure 4 is from this WUWT post: Sensitivity Training: Determining the Correct Climate Sensitivity
5. While rational climate skeptics point out reality based factual inconsistencies with warming projections, the global warming movement has been hijacked by emotional activists, such as Bill McKibben and Al Gore, who use emotional pleas and invective to motivate people. You won’t see them ever show the graphs above because they don’t deal in facts, only emotional appeals.
6. By making an emotional label about climate skeptics, instead of dealing with facts, Prince Charles demonstrates that’s he’s no different than Bill McKibben and Al Gore. Given recent opinion polls, he’s basically called about half of his potential subjects “the headless chicken brigade”, yet it is he who seems to be centered on the emotionalism and randomness more suited to that label.
Perhaps there is a reason the Queen has held on so long.
Prince Charles is thick, arrogant and totally self absorbed (does he remind you of anyone?). His knowledge of science is nil so his contribution to this debate can’t be very much. He manipulates our government behind the scenes to his own vision & sometimes to his own advantage using dubious methods. He just doesn’t know how to conduct himself. As a Brit I feel that if he ever gets to be monarch then he will be extremely unpopular & put our monarchical constitution at great risk. That is not in itself a problem but the transition to another constitution would be very very difficult.
“REPLY:Changed. I can never figure out which is correct, England, United Kingdom, and Britain are essentially interchangeable terms in the American psyche, at least that’s my view of it – Anthony”
You are confused ? Imagine being English and living in Scotland, which might be voting for seperation in September…
@ur momisugly Richard M
perhaps one year is too short?
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2012/to:2014/trend/plot/rss/from:2012/to:2014/trend/plot/hadsst2gl/from:2012/to:2014/trend/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:2012/to:2014/trend
However, a small rise within a solar cycle does not mean that we are not cooling
Here you can my see results from Alaska
http://oi40.tinypic.com/2ql5zq8.jpg
we are cooling
from the top [90] latitudes down
I think the tw@t phrase might need to be moderated ?
He’s being told what to say by his puppet masters.
john s says at February 1, 2014 at 9:50 am
…I can never figure out which is correct, England, United Kingdom, and Britain are essentially interchangeable terms in the American psyche, at least that’s my view of it – Anthony…
It’s not that difficult – but you do have to remember that the Queen has different ‘styles’ depending on the country she’s in. In the UK, and most of America, she would be known as:
“Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.”
Here is a wiki page which goes some way to explaining this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II
You may wish to note that in Nebrasksa she would (apparently) be known as ‘Admiral Elizabeth’, in the Channel Islands ‘Duke of Normandy’, in the Manx territories ‘Lord of Mann’ (which may give you the opportunity for a little pun), in New Zealand Maori territory ‘The White Heron’ , and in Jamaica ‘Missis Queen’….
How to actually address her, should you come across her in the street, is, of course, a different ball game altogether…
Nothing wrong with talking to your vegetables.
It provides them with a much needed boost of carbon dioxide which is in such short supply these days.
Flydlbee says:
February 1, 2014 at 9:44 am
Charles is not all that bright … I do not think you will get through to him …
I thought so.
Haven’t met him myself, but Charles seems to be a kind and decent man – it’s just that he’s completely wrong and misinformed on the subject of Climate Change ™. If he ever does become King, I think it would still be better than a President Blair/Thacher/Yeo/Hodge/(insert name of least favorite politician here).
What do the Aussies call her? Better yet, what do they call the Prince?
First question is sincere. Second is a set-up. (;
It is usually necessary to use a pen or pencil, an envelope with address and postal code (ZIP code for us colonials) to address most residents of Buckingham palace about rugby, soccer, cricket, baseball and real football. 8<)
Speaking of which, is there a formal ranked hierarchy between rooks, castles, knights, kings, princes, palaces, dukes and emperors? It seems that it would be appropriate to have an approved promotion scheme going on before assuming arbitrarily that "ruler of this here piece of land is called a ….(fill in the blank) " after the war finishes. /sarcasm
@m courtney: that he did. But he also banned Christmas and resigned as an absolutist dictator who made Charles the first look positively enlightened. Why people hold Cromwell up as anything to be admired is a question to which I fear I will never have an answer.
This is the man who had fake chimneys built onto the
Houses in his Model village on his estate.
After the houses were built.
Why? Because they were more in keeping with the village look.
Problem! As the chimneys had not been originally designed as part of the properties,
Additional support work was required, to support the structures.
The additional structures added cost to original build.
I call them structures as they serve no useful propose.
Then again I may be wrong and they look NICE.
Just to be helpful to our host and my American chums 🙂
I’m sure many know but it does no harm to explain:
England is a country of Great Britain which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland comprises the 3 countries mentioned with the addition of Northern Ireland.
Southern Ireland, Eire, is an independent nation.
Hope that helps 🙂
Just 42 more months before another “fail” proves Prince Chuck to be the Chicken Little of our time.
Morph says:
February 1, 2014 at 10:15 am
I think the tw@t phrase might need to be moderated ?
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English to American translation fail?
Just to be clear, this is what I meant :
“the word twat is more often used in various other ways:
As a derogatory insult, a pejorative meaning a fool, a stronger alternative to the word twit – ‘He can be a complete twat’ (often used in the UK)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twat
Does not anyone find it ironic, that a British monarch accuses others of hiding their heads in the sand to avoid reality? He lectures us on the real world? Comical…
Spongebob living in a pineapple under the sea is closer to reality.
They don’t even understand that Elizabeth is the 3rd not the second Queen Elizabeth on the throne. They couldn’t even get themselves right.
So Chicken Licken accuses those who don’t think the sky is falling of running round like headless chickens. Oh, the irony of it!
Extending the same thuking a little, woulld that make Big Climate Foxy Loxy?
In the following 1.5 minute clip from the TV series “Blackadder”, the Prince of Wales is in full intellectual discourse as Dr Johnson seek his endorsement of the new Dictionary.
Anth0ny:
HM Queen Elizabeth 2 has been a blessing to our land and to the world. The potential Charles 3 needs to remember how we got rid of his grandfather before he became Crowned and what we did to Charles 1.
At this point I think it useful to provide the lyrics of our National Anthem. It had 5 verses prior to 1900 and I provide all of them. Other verses have also existed and there is an alternative version of verse 4. Only the first three verses are now used. Usually only verse 1 is sung but verse 2 is also often sung. Verse 3 is rarely sung and usually only at certain State Occasions.
Please compare verses 1 and 2 in the context that we decapitated Charles 1
.
The first verse is a prayer that God will save the monarch.
The second verse is about a desire for the monarch to “Defend our laws” so we always have a cause to sing “God save the Queen”.
1.
God save our gracious Queen,
Live long our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen.
2.
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
3.
God bless our native land,
May heaven’s protective hand
Still guard our shore;
May peace her power extend,
Foe be transformed to friend,
And Britain’s power depend
On war no more.
4.
May just and righteous laws
Uphold the public cause,
And bless our isle.
Home of the brave and free,
Fair land and liberty,
We pray that still on thee
Kind heaven may smile.
5.
And not this land alone-
But be thy mercies known
From shore to shore.
Lord, make the nations see
That men should brothers be,
And from one family
The wide world o’er.
Richard
“The few who actually deny the Greenhouse effect exists, such as the “Slayers” aka “Principia Scientific” only represent the views of a fringe”
Another fringe thinker,
(Reuters) – An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals.
“People just laughed at me,” Shechtman recalled in an interview this year with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, noting how Linus Pauling, a colossus of science and double Nobel laureate, mounted a frightening “crusade” against him, saying: “There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.”
After telling Shechtman to go back and read the textbook, the head of his research group asked him to leave for “bringing disgrace” on the team. “I felt rejected,” Shechtman remembered.
The political climate spectrum can be viewed along the line of climate sensitivity. At one extreme are those that thing the oceans are going to boil. We could call them boilers. Then come those that think that a doubling of CO2 would cause a warming of about 3°C or so (in rough agreement with the IPCC). We could call them warmers. Below that are a group that think a doubling of CO2 will cause some warming, but that it will be less than 3°C or somewhere between 0°C and 3°C. We could call them lukewarmers. Then there are those that don’t believe that a doubling of CO2 would cause any appreciable warming. We could call them zeros, for want of a better moniker. Finally, at the other extreme are those that believe that a doubling of CO2 would cause cooling. We could call them coolers.
The problem is that I, for one, do not accept that the world’s climate is a univariate system. So I would not place myself on that line from boilers to coolers. Systems as complex as the world’s climate are almost never univariate. They usually behave in response to multiple significant variables. So I would place myself somewhere off to the side of the line from boilers to coolers.
CO2 may well have some influence over the world’s climate, but it is unlikely to be the only influence.
Upper Class twit of the year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imWlSMgMFGE
God Save the Queen.
@archonix
Why people hold Cromwell up as anything to be admired is a question to which I fear I will never have an answer.
Another pertinent question is why his statue should be placed in such a prominent position outside the Houses of Parliament, given that he ruled for most of the time without calling one…