Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has stepped in the climate issue again, by suggesting that climate change in Syria is the root cause of their barbarous civil war.
According to Charles;
“And, in fact, there’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” Asked if there was a direct link between climate change, conflict and terrorism, he added: “It’s only in the last few years that the Pentagon have actually started to pay attention to this. I mean it has a huge impact on what is happening.
“I mean the difficulty is sometimes to get this point across — that if we just leave it and say, well there are obviously lots of, there are endless problems arising all over the place, therefore we deal with them in a short-term way, we never deal with the underlying root cause which regrettably is what we’re doing to our natural environment.”
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/prince-charles-climate-change-to-blame-for-terrorism/news-story/409c6a0191b9dcbd028d07a1d697928f
California is suffering a severe drought, yet very few Californians are flocking to join terrorist groups or commit atrocities. Perhaps there are factors other than the weather, which motivate some people to murder and brutalise their neighbours.
The war in Syria has nothing to do with climate change. The British oligarchs, led by men lacking morality such as this old princeling, have caused terrible death and suffering through their collaboration with the Saudis in funding isis and the wahabist jihadi terrorists. Typical British empire move, funding the jihadis to spread terror
I heard it was all down to shape shifting lizards but you could be right after all.
Agreed, plus his buddy in Turkey is going to learn what real heat feels like.
You know I seem to recall the start of the unrest throughout the poorer parts of the world, was the sudden increase in the cost of food.
Brought on by the ill-conceived food to fuel mandates.
Was this not the “cause” of the “Arab Spring”?
Starving unemployed people might cause some resentment.
As for Climate Change being a contributing factor, OK.
What evidence of a change in Syrians Climate does the Prince have?
Maybe eating meat causes this conflict to escalate?
Or allowing skimpily clad females to frolic on Malaysian beaches causes volcanic eruptions.
Or is it allowing inbreed hereditary clans to concentrate stolen wealth that causes these conflicts?
Eric,
OFF Topic specifically, but relevant to you and generally related to scapegoating.
read briefly,
Mimetic triangulation as per Rene Girard, recently deceased.
This is at play here. Both the need to mimic desire wrt to green behavior, and the human need to triangulate on a person and group. aka scapegoating.
First the judges are quoting Obama….now the Prince is quoting the Pentagon
What’s going on over there?…..scared to quote your own people or something?…still tied to our hind teat?
…anything to divert attention away from the Arab Spring?
“It’s only in the last few years that the Pentagon have actually started to pay attention to this”
Quite strange that interest coincides with a Democrat POTUS massively cutting the DoD’s budget (again), you think those in the five sided puzzle palace might be after an increase in funds by siding with policy makers in the same way NASA has?
I can never decide if Prince Charles is a useful idiot, or just plain idiot.
Just ask yourself this, DDP: Would I want Prince Charles on my side?
There’s your answer.
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And, thankfully, he’s not! You are stuck with him, you “sustainability” hustlers!
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
(singing happily now, as I sit typing merrily): (hmm, hm, hm, hm, hm)
Soprano: Heeeeee’s the…. gift!
Chorus: He’s the GIFT!
S: That keeps on gi -hih -ving! Oh, yes the gift!
Ch: The GIFT!
S: That keeps on gi-VIIIIIIIIING! And we’d really hate to lose him
Ch: Yes!
S: We’d really HATE to lose him
Tutti: For, he says so many very lovely thiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!
S: Soooohhh! Keeeep it — UP! Dear Prince Chah-ruhls, keep it UP and take bow …..
’cause you do more for truth in science than your comrades will allow!
{music stops}
Male chorus member imitating HRH (speaking): “Funnily enough,” I LIKE that tune!
{with music, now}
Tutti: Keep — it — up — and — take — a — booooowwwww!
Male chorus member bowing, and bowing, and bowing…. {curtain falls}
Just ask yourself this, D D P: Would I want Prince Charles on my side?
There’s your answer.
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And, thankfully, he’s not! You are stuck with him, you “Su$tainability” hu$tlers!
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
(singing happily now, as I sit typing merrily): (hmm, hm, hm, hm, hm)
Soprano: Heeeeee’s the…. gift!
Chorus: He’s the GIFT!
S: That keeps on gi -hih -ving! Oh, yes the gift!
Ch: The GIFT!
S: That keeps on gi-VIIIIIIIIING! And we’d really h@te to lose him
Ch: Yes!
S: We’d really H@TE to lose him
Tutti: For, he says so many very lovely thiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!
S: Soooohhh! Keeeep it — UP! Dear Prince Chah-ruhls, keep it UP and take bow …..
’cause you do more for truth in science than your comr@des will allow!
{music stops}
Male chorus member imitating HRH (speaking): “Funnily enough,” I LIKE that tune!
{with music, now}
Tutti: Keep — it — up — and — take — a — booooowwwww!
Male chorus member bowing, and bowing, and bowing…. {curtain falls}
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Second try at posting with all the potentially “bad” words altered… hope this works!
Amazing how climate change only transforms Muslims into terrorists. Is there anything it can’t do?
Obama blames climate change for the war in Syria; I blame Obama.
The Prince of Wales, who is 60 today, is planning a symbolic change when he becomes King by taking the title Defender of Faith to reflect Britain’s multicultural society
The move would mean the monarch, as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, would no longer be known as Defender of the Faith for the first time since the reign of Henry VIII.
The Prince caused controversy within the Anglican church when he floated the idea several years ago of becoming Defender of the Faiths in an attempt to embrace the other religions in Britain.
In a compromise he has now opted for Defender of Faith which he hopes will unite the different strands of society, and their beliefs, at his Coronation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/3454271/Prince-Charles-to-be-known-as-Defender-of-Faith.html
Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Prince Charles urges environmentalists
Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.
In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.
He said the current ‘division’ between man and nature had been caused not just by industrialisation, but also by our attitude to the environment – which goes against the grain of ‘sacred traditions’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285332/Follow-Islamic-way-save-world-Charles-urges-environmentalists.html
The Man who Invented |Global Warming
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100069775/the-man-who-invented-global-warming/
“The market system is not functional,” insisted the chairman, Sir Crispin Tickell, incidentally, one of Prince Charles’ most trusted advisers
http://www.africaclimatesolution.org/news.php?id=6370
Contrary to the statement in first line, this is much more than a symbolic change. I.E. to change from defender of “the” faith, to defender of faith.
Presumably Charles will most vehemently defend the CAGW /Scientism/Green faith of which he is a prime advocate
Ennery the Eighth I’m not, I’m not.
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Off with his ‘ed !!!!
Way too many years of inbreeding.
It is not climate change that caused “Arab Spring”; it is “climate change
politics” which gave us bio fuels and made corn & grain more expensive which led to uprising in the Arab world.
And there, after all is said and done, you have it.
Such a simplistic interpretation of Syria’s troubles indicates that Prince Charles has poorly informed advisors.
These two papers reviewed here indicate that a complex interplay of politics, overgrazing and mismanagement had much more to do with Syria’s woes than did a natural period of drought from 2006-2011.
http://climateandsecurity.org/2014/03/26/review-two-new-studies-on-syria-drought-climate-change-natural-resource-management-and-the-uprising/
Parasitic twit, away with the fairies as usual, must be something to do with the ‘royals’ inbreeding.
Water might bee the cause of Syrian war. Turkey has made some dams to store Eufrats water.
The Swedish king would like to bring some peace to Syria- a few bathtubs of clean water-he never used the water.
This is my letter to the editor, which will be printed in the Daily Telegraph today (so the editor said)……
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Re: Prince Charles and the Syria War
Dear Ed,
Prince Charles says that Global Warming was a cause for the Syria war. Sorry, but this rumour is so untrue it has to be stopped now.
Firstly, there has been no Global Warming for 18 years, and the present Syria dispute started in 2011. A steady world temperature cannot be blamed for something in 2011.
Secondly, Assad’s father had exactly the same uprising with the same people back in 1982, and put it down in the same ruthless manner – the Hama massacre. Was that uprising caused by Global Warming? Really?
Thirdly, this is actually a sectarian dispute that goes back 1,300 years. Why do you think the Syriac Christians have backed Assad all this time? Assad’s Alawites were no better than serfs and lived in the gutters of Syrian society for more than a thousand years, until put into power by the French in the early 20th century. The Sunnis have always resented that rise to power and wish to put the Alawites back in the gutters once more.
This is the true reason for the Syrian civil-war, not a non-existent Global Warming. But how can Western leaders resolve this desperate situation, if they do not know what the problem is? Indeed, were their previous inept actions and inactions responsible for the situation in the first place?
Ralph
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Charles is the worst nightmare of any royal family. He’s not mental enough to get locked away (like Ferdinand I of Austria or King Talal of Jordan), but he’s both feeble-minded and mad enough to do lots of damage to the monarchy.
Global hysteria facilitated by the U.N., an unelected bunch of bureaucrats, (salaries tax free), an organisation which has long since outlived its usefulness. It should stick to issues such as infectious disease, vector born illness etc. and leave all else to the diplomats. Prince Charles is nothing more than a useful idiot, (Lenin).
Newsflash folks:
Climate change also caused the Persian Gulf War of the 1990’s.
Step back just 18,000 years and there was no Persian Gulf.
So – had the climate not changed via global warming and sea level rise – then no war.
Well – maybe a war, but no gulf. So no gulf war.
Speaking of gulfs – has anyone noticed the growing gulf between bullshit AGW memes and the reality of shit that is actually occurring all around us on planet earth.
Here’s a BBC timeline on events in Syria, from the days before imbeciles decided that all problems could be blamed on the emergence of the world from the LIA.
I previously thought that war, famine and pestilence were thought to be linked to periods of cold.
This shit is simply embarrassing. Or at least it would be to a man who had not taken leave of his senses.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14703995
We in the UK all know a village somewhere is missing its idiot.
I am a supporter of the monarchy (I am English), but truly I fear the succession of this foolish man. His absurd (and deeply reactionary) environmental views are only part of the problem.
One of the titles that he will inherit is Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith), which refers to the monarch’s role as head of the Church of England. Charles has in the past suggested that this should be changed to Defender of the Faiths (I’m sure you can guess which other faith he has particularly in mind).
Apart from the folly of pandering to the permanently offended, this shows that he has no understanding of the role he has to fill – none – despite having had decades to grasp it. His position in the Church of England is real – not some empty multiculti posturing.
Who knows, maybe Charles will imitate one of his distant ancestors, Henry V. Henry V, or so Shakespeare tells us, set aside the follies of his youth when he became the king. Okay, Charles isn’t exactly a youth. As to Syria, I had the impression that there was a civil war going on that had nothing to do with terrorism, although Assad was accused of using certain methods which might be regarded as a form of terrorism. Then along came IS, ISIS, or whatever it’s called. They had nothing to do with the civil war but just wanted to impose their version of Islam on every body else. Is that anywhere near correct?
OK so what Prince Charles said was ridiculous, but didn’t Barack Obama, Hilliary Clinton and Bernie Sanders say exactly the same thing? Prince Charles may be viewed as Forrest Gump, but Obama, Clinton and Sanders, what is their excuse?
Obama, shameful opportunist.
Clinton, head wound leading to mental incapacity.
Sanders, don’t know who he is.
Let the warmists rave on, that men will know them mad.
“Apart from the folly of pandering to the permanently offended, this shows that he has no understanding of the role he has to fill – none – despite having had decades to grasp it. His position in the Church of England is real – not some empty multiculti posturing”
The monarch is required to maintain the posture and appearance of being ‘above the fray’. Unfortunately for Charles and even more unfortunately for his subjects Charles seems unable to do that, so we have the recurring spectacle of a man who merely parrots the politically correct banalities he’s learned from his friends and the circle of people with whom he associates.
Prince Carles is completey crazy.
Oups: Prince Charles, of course!