Lord Monckton invites ‘Chazza’ to spar over ‘unroyal’ global-warming remark
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales,
Clarence House, London.
Candlemas, 2014
Your Royal Highness’ recent remarks describing those who have scientific and economic reason to question the Establishment opinion on climatic apocalypse in uncomplimentary and unroyal terms as “headless chickens” mark the end of our constitutional monarchy and a return to the direct involvement of the Royal Family, in the Person of our future king, no less, in the cut and thrust of partisan politics.
Now that Your Royal Highness has offered Your Person as fair game in the shootout of politics, I am at last free to offer two options. I need no longer hold back, as so many have held back, as Your Royal Highness’ interventions in politics have become more frequent and less acceptable in their manner as well as in their matter.
Option 1. Your Royal Highness will renounce the Throne forthwith and for aye. Those remarks were rankly party-political and were calculated to offend those who still believe, as Your Royal Highness plainly does not, that the United Kingdom should be and remain a free country, where any subject of Her Majesty may study science and economics, may draw his conclusions from his research and may publish the results, however uncongenial the results may be.
The line has been crossed. No one who has intervened thus intemperately in politics may legitimately occupy the Throne. Your Royal Highness’ arrogant and derogatory dismissiveness towards the near-50 percent of your subjects who no longer follow the New Religion is tantamount to premature abdication. Goodnight, sweet prince. No more “Your Royal Highness.”
Hi, there, Chazza! You are a commoner now, just like most of Her Majesty’s subjects. You will find us a cheerfully undeferential lot. Most of us don’t live in palaces, and none of us goes everywhere with his own personalized set of monogrammed white leather lavatory seat covers.
The United Kingdom Independence Party, which until recently I had the honor to represent in Scotland, considers – on the best scientific and economic evidence – that the profiteers of doom are unjustifiably enriching themselves at our expense.
For instance, even the unspeakable Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has accepted advice from me and my fellow expert reviewers that reliance upon ill-constructed and defective computer models to predict climate was a mistake. Between the pre-final and final drafts of the “Fifth Assessment Report,” published late last year, the Panel ditched the models and substituted its own “expert assessment” that in the next 30 years the rate of warming will be half what the models predict.
In fact, the dithering old fossils in white lab coats with leaky Biros sticking out of the front pocket now think the rate of warming over the next 30 years could be less than in the past 30 years, notwithstanding an undiminished increase in the atmospheric concentration of plant food. Next time you talk to the plants, ask them whether they would like more CO2 in the air they breathe. Their answer will be Yes.
The learned journals of economics are near-unanimous in saying it is 10-100 times costlier to mitigate global warming today than to adapt to its supposedly adverse consequences the day after tomorrow.
Besides, in the realm that might have been yours there has been no change – none at all – in mean surface temperature for 25 full years. So if you are tempted to blame last year’s cold winter (which killed 31,000 before their time) or this year’s floods (partly caused by the Environment Agency’s mad policy of returning dozens of square miles of the Somerset Levels to the sea) on global warming, don’t.
You got your science and economics wrong. And you were rude as well. And you took sides in politics. Constitutionally, that’s a no-no. Thronewise, mate, you’ve blown it.
On the other hand, we Brits are sport-mad. So here is option 2. I am going to give you a sporting second chance, Charlie, baby.
You see, squire, you are no longer above politics. You’ve toppled off your gilded perch and now you’re in it up to your once-regal neck. So, to get you used to the idea of debating on equal terms with your fellow countrymen, I’m going to give you a once-in-a-reign opportunity to win back your Throne in a debate about the climate. The motion: “Global warming is a global crisis.” You say it is. I say it isn’t.
We’ll hold the debate at the Cambridge Union, for Cambridge is your alma mater and mine. You get to pick two supporting speakers and so do I. We can use PowerPoint graphs. The Grand Debate will be televised internationally over two commercial hours. We let the world vote by phone, before and after the debate. If the vote swings your way, you keep your Throne. Otherwise, see you down the pub.
Cheers, mate!
Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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God forbid that this man becomes king of Canada! I’ve just been tipped into the Republican camp.
James,
Tell us more, we need to have you present us some facts to better understand you.
Thanks,
Whew!
What you need to know about Princess Charles is below. He is sincere (as one commenter advised me and I believe that commenter 97%). Let’s make it “it cool to use less stuff” [Princess Charles].
http://youtu.be/zhpNJAKq7dE
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/01/chicken-al-la-still-not-a-king/#comment-1556413
Charles blowing it like that opens up some interesting possibilities … Is it Charles personally who loses his claim to the throne, or is this a bigger deal? After Edward VIII abdicated, a 1936 Act denied throne access to any of his descendants. Sorry, Wills and Harry, but you may have just lost out too. But let’s face it, the Windsor line is in real trouble anyway if Scottish devolution goes ahead, because that would de-legitimise all royal lines from the Stewarts (James VI/I) onwards. So it looks like the next monarch will be from the Tudor line, and will be King Simon I (Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun) from Wangaratta, Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Real_Monarch ….. Oops! ….. Loudoun is a Scottish earldom, do we have to go back to the Plantagenets? This inheritance thing is really rather tricky.
In my youth little prince Charlie spent some years in a private boys school near Melbourne Australia. I do remember the boys having fun with Charlie.
This Aussie experience may have damaged the poor dear, perhaps some fault on our part
caused him to be some what peculiar. Genetics and the house training at the palace may also have had a detrimental effect.
Good to see Chris telling it like it is, headless chickens indeed. The prince has put his head way outside the parapet.
Prince Charles on wind turbines ‘horrendous blot‘
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132878/Royals-1m-wind-farm-hypocrisy-45-wind-turbines-described-Charles-horrendous-blot-built-Crown-land.html
James Abbott says: February 5, 2014 at 4:20 pm;
If you were planting Roman grapes in Merry England, it would be Global Warming. As the scouring Ice Sheets bear down from Scandinavia … it’s of course Global Warming.
In fact, “predictions” were otherwise, weren’t they?
[Didn’t I alert you to this dynamic, Lord Monckton? ;]
Perhaps Charlie Boy can talk with his plants, and ask their opinion?
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/prince-charles-enjoys-talking-to-his-plants
fobdangerclose
Thanks but not sure what info you need.
The main point is that Monckton is not a credible person on climate science. So for example in his letter he says
In the UK “there has been no change – none at all – in mean surface temperature for 25 full years.”
As was pointed out by Zeke Hausfather earlier in this thread:
The claim of 25 years of zero trend in the UK seems to run somewhat counter to the data: http://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/regions/united-kingdom-(europe)
Is there anything that is not consistent with predictions of what would happen in a warmer world?
Prince Charles advises that just as we listen to scientists in other fields we should also listen to the climate scientists. THEN WHY DOESN’T HE LISTEN TO THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON HOMEOPATHY? He now advocates for homeopathy. when the consensus says it’s no better than a placebo.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hes-at-it-again-prince-charles-accused-of-lobbying-health-secretary-over-homeopathy-8723145.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10003680/Homeopathy-is-nonsense-says-new-chief-scientist.html
PS Princess Charles has a long reputation for talking to his plants.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286883/Prince-Charles-revealed-instructs-plants.html
You see here is the problem. When you are born with a diamond studded gold spoon in your mouth (on super steroids) you often get deluded. You have no grounding, no sense of no, no sense of freezing to death, no sense of a lack of air conditioning. If anyone disagrees with me then please tell me WHAT Prince Charles has a real world view of understanding???
James, (ok if I use just “James”, anyhow…
This Berkley info, do they want me to farm and ranch with less CO2 to feed my wheat, oats, and grass? Or do they have another thing I and others can use for plant food.
Thanks for your response/responses
Why bother Chris, everyone knows Charlie is a nutter.
goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of a$$holes sing thee to thy rest…
charles will probably come back with “proof” he’s right!
the following is attributed to AAP at the top, & AFP at the bottom
6 Feb: Australian: AAP/AFP: 2013 was the sixth-hottest year on record, UN says
LAST year tied for the sixth-hottest on record, confirming that Earth’s climate system is in the grip of warming that will affect generations to come, the UN’s weather agency says.
“This is confirmation of the trend of global warming of the planet,” World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) chief Michel Jarraud said on Wednesday.
Last year equalled 2007 as the sixth-warmest year since reliable records began in 1850, with a global land and ocean surface temperature that was 0.5 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, the WMO said in a statement.
Thirteen of the 14 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century, Jarraud said…
Jarraud acknowledged in a statement that “the rate of warming is not uniform” in every country.
Last year, for instance, was the hottest year on record in Australia, while the United States measured record highs in 2012. But, Jarraud said, “the underlying trend is undeniable”.
“Global warming … is occurring. There is absolutely zero doubt. But more important, it is due to human activities,” he told AFP, pointing to record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
“Our action, or inaction, to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases will shape the state of our planet for our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” he said…
The agency released the temperature data in advance of its Statement on the Status of the Climate in 2013, which will be published in March.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/was-the-sixthhottest-year-on-record-un-says/story-e6frg8y6-1226819287966
Princess Charlie Boy has has “161.1 full-time equivalent staff” and 4 “homes in England, Scotland and Wales.” Clarence House – 40,000 sq. feet, Highgrove Estate – 900 acres. Princess Charlie girl also likes to fly to receive environMENTAL awards in the USA. What is there not to like? If Charles kept his mouth shut I would not attack as he would be deemed to be just lucky. But he wants to preach therefore I attack. Charles should not preach to anyone about anything. Global warming or fidelity or anything else. Now do not get me going. Charles, [snip].
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/the-prince-of-wales/residences
Jimbo,
Thanks for your input, take Air Conditioning, why is it that Michael Mann, Al Gore etal have not gone full in investing in airconditioning manf. on the stock exchanges, seems the “met” retirement funds should have gone there if they would just have folllowed their own ideas on global warming and all that.
thanks
Ted Clayton
No, its not the predictions that are the point – its the fact it is actually happening and that is consistent with the science.
If the climate was cooling, sea level was not rising and storms were not getting more severe the sceptic community would have some evidence to back up their claims.
But its the other way round.
Rising sea levels and increased severity of storms are having serious impacts in the UK in terms of coastal erosion, damage to property and infrastructure. The rail link to Cornwall was badly damaged by the storms this week and will take probably months to rebuild. Coastal town proms and piers have been damaged, people have lost their homes to the sea or been flooded out by sea water overtopping the defences.
For the UK sea level rise is probably the most serious threat from climate change in the short to medium term. Decisions are going to have to be made about which areas are defended and which not as there is not the money to do it all.
Pretending its not happening – which I think Prince Charles was getting at – is just delusional.
The King is dud.
Charles doesn’t seem so environmentally friendly when it comes to making a few quid:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charless-farm-accused-of-ecovandalism-6256927.html
fobdangerclose says:
February 5, 2014 at 4:01 pm
You make no interruption of the thread at all. As a Texas rancher and farmer, you live weather and know when you’re being hornswoggled. Good to hear from you.
James,
Is sea shore trouble new to us now or are sea waves pounding on the sea shore a billion year old thing?
and here’s more “proof”!!!
6 Feb: Bloomberg: Eric Roston: Mid-Century Heat Will Be Tough to Beat in U.K., Study Says
Hot weather disruptions are projected to rise as decades pass — they already have — taking metropolitan areas dangerously past historic high temperatures, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.
A study of the U.K. this week in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, sees a rising probability of dangerous heatwaves as the century progresses. Heat-related deaths could rise by more than 250 percent by mid-century, with some of the most dramatic increases occurring in London.
Researchers from two British institutions studied the relationship between weather and mortality between 1993 and 2006, then combined their findings with 21st century warming projections…
The study emphasizes that its projections occur “in the absence of any adaptation of the population” — an assumption already wearing away, as cities and companies reinvent themselves for a changing world.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/mid-century-heat-will-be-tough-to-beat-in-u-k-study-says.html
Wow! Way to go! Charlie-boy doesn’t stand a chance! 😀