Hannah Furness, Royal Correspondent
11 July 2019 • 9:00pm
The Prince of Wales has warned global leaders they have 18 critical months to solve climate change and restore the balance of nature, ensuring the survival of the human race.
The Prince, addressing foreign ministers from around the Commonwealth, said they were “uniquely positioned” to lead the world by example, urging them to match ambition with “the practical action that is required”.
Speaking as the future head of the Commonwealth, a position which was confirmed during a convention in London last year, he emphasised that the next 18 months would see “critical meetings that will collectively determine the global agenda for the coming decade”.
The leaders of Commonwealth countries will gather next year in Rwanda for a week-long summit, at which they will discuss the “unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss”.
In a speech during a reception at Clarence House, the Prince said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.
Prince Charles, photographed in Dorset, is a lifelong champion of the environment Credit: PA
“Next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, therefore, could not be more important and I can only say how much I look forward, I hope, to seeing you and your leaders in Kigali so that we will succeed in raising our level of ambition, while matching it with the practical action that is required.
“I truly believe that the Commonwealth is uniquely positioned to join forces and lead the world by example.
“And your Excellencies, for what it’s worth, I stand ready to support you in these efforts and to seeing the Commonwealth at the forefront of a global solution.”
The Prince has long spoken about his deep concern for the future of the planet, urging leaders to focus on the threat presented by climate change.
Praising the Commonwealth’s shared values, he said: “This unity and strength will be vital in the years ahead for, as you know only too well, we are facing unparalleled challenges caused by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss.
He must be referring to the climate change that might occur if the UK government continues down the pathological path of egging conflict and war with nuclear capable countries.
I thought he might be referring to the Brexit timetable 🙂
God save the Queen.
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Climate has always changed. The notion that Man significantly affects it is absurd.
Since time immemorial there have been apocalypse myths; this is merely its latest incarnation.
Speaking of incarnation, who but a prince (Charles), would where a suit and tie, complete with a pink carnation to plant a tree?
Lots of people if they are carrying out an official duty since to dress otherwise would be disrespectful.
Melania Trump had stilettos and a $4000 skirt. Come on, it’s a ceremony for the press, not actual gardening.
People are often in seen in $4000 suits plus a hard hat for ground breaking ceremonies. Again, press event, not actual construction.
Just goes to show that money, if one has enough, is a suitable substitute for brains.
Even the shovel is just a prop, shiny new and not a spec of dirt on it
Well, Sheri, I’d frankly much (much, much) rather watch Melania in 6-inch stilettos and a $20 skirt slice bread than spend even 5 seconds of my time on Earth paying attention to any, any thing done or spoken by the unfortunate and deluded Prince of Wales.
The Welsh are lovely folk and must be mightily ashamed to be associated with this defective offspring.
God Save the Queen!
I all seriousness, I’m offended by charlie the bonnie prince. I could care less for anything an “official” DANDY of a descendant of George III does or says! Yes, some of us American’s know our LINEAL HERITAGE too, going way back. At the head of my 7th great-grand father’s grave in North Carolina (Lt. Thomas McCulloch), on his head stone are inscribed these words: “Here lies the body of Lieutenant Thomas McCULLOCH, belonging to Colonel Campbell’s Virginia Regiment, who lost his life in and for the Honourable, just and Righteous cause of Liberty in defeating Colonel Ferguson’s infamous company of BANDITTI at King’s Mountain October seventh, 1780.” >> http://bkmnp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/McCullough-Thomas.pdf
It appears KIng George III is prince charlie’s VERY favourite (english-style for favorite) ancestor !! >> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/9738292/Prince-Charles-names-King-George-III-as-his-most-respected-monarch.html. Well, Lt. Thomas McCulloch is my VERY favorite ancestor as he, with two sons and a brother by his side kicked prince-charlie’s George III’s threatening BANDITTI’s arse. Later, more of my family kicked british arse again 1812 too. I’m also a proud denier of global climate-change propaganda-machine claims.
Proving once again that people who read history have the best BS detectors. Greens on the other hand read ( I think) graphs and believe them without question.
He won’t even make it to be king.
That’s what he’s worried about…
I cringe whenever I see some “Western” nation which finds it necessary to maintain a HEREDITARY ROYALTY system. It tells me, in no uncertain terms, that such a nation is NOT QUITE READY for democracy; where, by definition, it retains some multi-tiered legal system: one for the royalty, one for the lords and another for the SUBJECTS. IOW: NO! In front of the law, as defined by that very law, not everyone is treated equally!
Further, and reinforcing all of this, there ARE royals — see the subject of this article — who, apparently, see no irony in their station; where, ostensibly, they play this role to the hilt and they do not seem to be ashamed, embarrassed or inadequate — although, by the laws of nature, they should be — in any way.
Yet, the SUBJECTS, overall, seem to be fine with this. And, yes, we here in the USA, where we have our de facto multi-tiered legal system, essentially have similar challenges.
The foto caption reads: “Prince Charles, photographed in Dorset, is a lifelong champion of the environment Credit.” In response, to me, here is the question which jumps out: is he also a champion of the people; and, most importantly, which does he prioritize?
The jug eared troll doesn’t have the slightest interest in humanity beyond his own dysfunctional family.
I have great respect for our Queen, she was thrust into a challenging role when her father died unexpectedly, but that’s as far as my interest goes.
The whole lot should be done away with when she dies.
Charles was a dunce at school; his marriage to Diana was a sham; his aunt was a raging alcoholic, his grandmother a foul mouthed tyrant, his brother has disappeared from sight (allegedly now gay); his father is a diplomatic moron; and Charles remains a dunce as an adult. The only one approaching normal is Princess Anne.
Virtually every despotic ruler in the world imitates them somehow believing the royal family rules the UK instead of us operating under the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world. The Scot’s largely despise them, the Welsh not far behind and a great deal of the English resent the public money wasted on them.
Time for them to go.
As an US citizen, I respect our lineal heritage with Great Britain, however we threw off the monarchy. I always think of the current constitutional monarchies as sustaining the descendants of the LAST MURDERER. As we all know, hereditary monarchies were ALL established and maintained by the sword until such time as they became constitutional, then the kings/queens no longer needed to fear overthrow. What great timing for the House of Windsor!
Reparations are in order.
Prince Charles is analogous to our Al Gore in the USA. They both drone on about dire impending disasters that never happen… and never will. Both are eccentric environmental hypocrites and the spoiled progeny of very wealthy families.
Heap derision on the pusillanimous prince’s predictions for the next 18 months and then ‘exit from royalty’ (Rexit?) at 19 months. No need to look back, Union Jack. Just get yourself free!
Now don’t hold back, HotScot my friend, tell us how you really feel!
Speaking of the serious problems of hereditary royalty, we have that here in Canada too – our two worst Prime Ministers were Pierre Trudeau, the far-left best friend of Marxist tyrants like Fidel Castro, and his village-idiot son Justin – a minor chip of the old block. These two leftist scoundrel/imbeciles have done enormous harm to Canada, and rational analysis suggests that it was deliberate.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/08/claim-failure-to-control-co2-emissions-will-lead-to-global-fascism/#comment-2424478
When Marxists want to sabotage a country, they increase energy costs unnecessarily, which cripples the economy. That is the left’s strategy, and it is working, except in the USA, China and a few other countries.
A key leftist strategy is to cripple the energy industry – examples are endless regulatory snarls and successful anti-pipeline movements – these have cost Canada $120 billion in lost revenues – a huge amount of money that should have been available for industrial re-investment, job creation, health, education, etc.
The leftists were the scourge of the 20th Century – Hitler, Stalin and Mao killed a total of about 200 million people. Then there are the many lesser leftists killers, who like Mao and Stalin almost always murdered their own citizens.
Almost 200 countries that once had viable economies are on a downward spiral – Zimbabwe and Venezuela lead the way, but many others follow. That is the Marxist agenda, and it is working.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
I agree with your sentiments except for the fact that constitutional monarchies are the best and most successful forms of government around. The English chopped the head off their king to show who was boss, but they weren’t very good at being a republic. The constitutional monarchy system came into being when Victoria, the tubby indulgent one, refused her duties for such a long period following Albert’s death that Parliament had to muddle along. And lo and behold, our present system of having a supposed head of state who is allowed to say what he or she likes but is not allowed to do what they want has been a brilliant success closely copied by very many stable states around the world.
Besides, the antics of the royals are good for the economy in encouraging tourism and in supplying copy for women’s magazines.
The USA opted instead for an elected king with virtually unlimited power but only for a short term.
Charles is a buffoon who needs exposure to the realities of the world. His horticultural practices of having ex-servemen crawling on hands and knees at night picking bugs and slugs of his plants is madness. His crops would be too expensive for most consumers if he wasn’t able to subsidise them. As for his ridiculous wild meadows – give me a break. Where do I start to educate him in elementary economics and biology?
Johnny: Although an American citizen, I’ve learned that the Monarchy represents and is the symbol of the historical continuity of the British State, once an Empire upon which the sun never set, now part of a Commonwealth of nations governed by traditions derived from English Common Law. The idea of Statehood must be distinguished from nation or country which is shorthand for the people who form and live within a State. As such the British Royalty does not represent the people of Great Britain per se. The representatives of the British people are elected to Parliament, in particular, the lower chamber, the House of Commons, whereas the upper chamber, the House of Lords, once represented the landed Aristocracy. Over time The landed Aristocracy lost political power to the burgeoning Mercantile Class and the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th C. The Party which wins a majority of seats In the House of Commons or in coalition with a second party to control Parliament gets to pick a PM, who selects a Cabinet, and forms a Government, to protect the nation, command the military, collect taxes, create budgets, run various departments, enforce the laws of the land, etc. What distinguishes Government in both a Parliamentary Monarchy as in Great Britain or a Constitutional Republic in the United States from an autocracy in Putin’s Russia or Madduro’s Venezuela, a tyranny or a dictatorship as in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under Marxist-Leninism-Stalinist Communism is not only that it is elected, but that the duration of its time in power is limited according to Constitutional law or settled tradition.
As I understand it, British Government is an amalgam of Monarchical, Democratic, and Aristocratic Parliamentary institutions established after the Revolution of 1688 which followed the English Civil War in the 1640’s with the Ascension of William of Orange and Mary and the final downfall of the House of Stuart to create a stable form of Government after a fairly long period of unrest. If you consider the Branches of Government and the limited and enumerated powers of the Federal government as established by the US Constitution, the tripartite system mirrors the British system.
The long term strategy of the Marxist Left of the Democratic Party is to transform the American State as founded by the United States Constitution by changing the nation or its people through open borders and illegal immigration.
I want to see Meghan Markle become king by proxy.
King Harry: “Yes, Dear. Whatever you say, Dear”.
https://youtu.be/Rdf9-hRt410
Sadly the Prince confabulates the responsible tending and management of the planet with the gross rush to remove the very means we have to do this by cessation of fossil fuel derived energy.
Admittedly he doesn’t say this overtly but it is implied by his reference to an 18 month time scale.
The two objestives are totally incompatible; so what does a Royal do when faced with this dilemma. ? Yes: Couch the words in implied confabulation so the meaning rests in the ears of the listener.
As stated elsewhere in these comments, the foto caption — of course, these are not his words — reads: “Prince Charles, photographed in Dorset, is a lifelong champion of the environment Credit.”
In response, to me, here is the question which jumps out: is he also a champion of the people; and, most importantly, which does he prioritize?
FYI: NO EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SIGNIFICANT ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE
J. KAUPPINEN AND P. MALMI
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf
We have proven that the GCM-models used in IPCC report AR5 cannot compute correctly the natural component included in the observed global temperature. The reason is that the models fail to derive the influences of low cloud cover fraction on the global temperature. A too small natural component results in a too large portion for the contribution of the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. That is why IPCC represents the climate sensitivity more than one order of magnitude larger than our sensitivity 0.24àC. Because the anthropogenic portion in the increased CO2 is less than 10 %, we have practically no anthropogenic climate change. The low clouds control mainly the global temperature.
Not sure why we need the comment post on that paper there is a whole thread on it.
People appear to be excited about the paper and are posting it everywhere, cut and paste style. It seems it’s the new holy grail and everyone wants to be sure it’s out there. Unfortunately, it’s the usual cut and paste fever without thought.
Well at least he is leading by example and downsized from a stately home to an apartment! Oh wait, no, not that. He has many homes. He does have an electric Jaguar though.
I am very glad he’s put his name to the 18 month timeframe, not too long to be completely proven a fool. Oh wait…didn’t he say years ago that there was only 100 days to save the planet?
He’s a bit slippery. This time he said,
Previously he’s been all over the place.
He doesn’t say we will get CAGW in whatever time. He seems to be saying we have that much time to start seriously working on the problem. He never mentions how we’re going to get China and India to go along. In fact, China says the developed west has to pay it’s climate debt before it will do anything. link
Has anyone ever asked Chuckie about the China/India problem? All he’s doing is asking the Commonwealth nations to commit economic suicide.
I’m not saying he can influence India, but it is part of the Commonwealth.
So is Australia and Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations
Speechwriters.
“Has anyone ever asked Chuckie about the China/India problem? All he’s doing is asking the Commonwealth nations to commit economic suicide.”
If Prince Charles does not come down hard on India and China for their continuing increase in the production of CO2 at this coming “summit”and require them to use windmills instead, then he is not really serious about reducting CO2.
The Western nations are not the problem. The U.S. is doing very good on CO2 while maintaining its vigorous economy, and the other Western nations are reducing their CO2 production, albeit at the expense of their economies. So Western nations are not the problem when it comes to CO2.
It’s the rest of the world that is the CO2 problem. The Prince should focus on them.
The clock ran on the 100 month deadline last September. How did we get a two year extension?
Repetition is the key to learning.
Let me say that again, . . .
No, he said we have 100 months.
I thought we had 12 years?
12 years or 18 months doesn’t matter nothing is going to happen on either timeframe .. so I guess if the Church of Climatrosphy is right we are all dead.
We always have 12 years or 10 years or 5 years or whatever is long enough for people to forget.
12 years is to see atmospheric results.
See the 30×30 effort: a global effort to reduce net CO2 emissions 30% by 2030.
Prince Charles is clear that he is talking about 18 months to put in place methodologies to reduce net CO2 emissions.
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?329190/Forests-food-and-land-can-deliver-30-of-solutions-needed-to-tackle-climate-crisis-by-2030
30×30 has billions of dollars committed to it. Here’s more detail:
http://climateinitiativesplatform.org/index.php/The_30X30_Forests,_Food_and_Land_Challenge
How do we know reducing emissions will reduce actual CO2 concentrations?
Who cares it is never going to happen ….. it’s like worrying about spending the millions of dollars in the lottery that you are probably never going to win.
It’s been 10 years or ‘until the end of the decade’ since the 1970’s.
None of us should be here today according to the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
Naming a date is the great failure of doom mongers. As the pesky internet remembers every fatuous statement, one will look like the hysterical fool one always was.
Put it far enough a head and you will not be there to be asked how you got it so wrong in the first place.
The greens are all now competing to who can make a more frightening, i.e. closer, climate doomsday deadline without sounding TOO over the top. They don’t realize that to people who have stopped believing the religion, they all sound over the top.
12 years, 96 months, now 18 months. HRH continues to depart from reality at an exponential decay rate.
Prince ‘chuckles ‘ has a history of predicting ‘doom’ but he has slipped un hear .
18 months to short a period for when ‘doom’ fails to arrive you cannot rely on the fact you are not around anymore or that the story has moved on so people forgot you made the claim in the first place.
He needs to learn from climate ‘science’ that has learnt the best models are ‘end of the century ‘ ones where you can avoid these risks and claim ‘not yet but its going to ‘ for many years .
Although to fair will happen with the 12 year countdown of doom ,and has occurred many times before, he can always ‘reset’ the clock .
This man, and his companions in high places such as Al Gore and David Attenborough, have so much to answer for by adding credibility to the completely false claim that humans are destroying the planet by releasing CO2 to the atmosphere.
I consider them to be far more guilty of Climate Corruption than the young people of today, such as Grete Thurnberg, who have been fed the AGW nonsense since they were born.
When the knowledge that a person has available to work with is at a superficial level then it is virtually certain that the only conclusions that they able to reach may be sincere but will also be superficial.
It’s obvious, that ‘royal’ endogamy takes some time for the consequensies to show… 🙁
To be fair , what he said was 18 months to agree to do to agree on what is required and put that in place
Not that we are all going to fry in 18 months
But it’s so critical that they’ll meet sometime next year to discuss it.
Yeah I got that 🙂
He knows dam well nothing is going to happen and this is all just PR stunt and virtue signalling.
Ah.. So it’s not about the environment but rather about the policies. Policies which will arrest standard of living progress and social mobility around the world.
Centuries ago, monarchies were bastions of conservative orthodoxy and absolute rule. What was done then can only be judged in terms of its history significance. For example, Henry VIII created his own religion to allow him to divorce his wife, with tumultuous effects on European history, which can still be felt today.
Now they are run more or less like corporations and must share (what little) power with the people. So evidently Charles believes that adapting these liberal poses will make him popular with hoi polloi and insure the survival of his monarchy.
I want to know if Charles, along with his brother Andrew, also visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island of disrepute.
I thought this idiot had made similar predictions before – a quick Google found this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html
So, according to him in 2009 we apparently had 96 months to avoid catastrophe – the day of doom was due in 2017.
So, what happened between 2009 and 2017?
According to the OECD human wellbeing index, human wellbeing greatly increased. The planet has been getting dramatically greener, primarily due to increased CO2. Food production, human life expectancy and health has been steadily increasing, there has been no increase in extreme weather or wildfires, and a fall in the overally intensity of hurricanes. Oh yes, and most of that period was dominated by the global warming pause.
Sadly, there has also been an increase in unfounded climate change hysteria that is causing the world to squander trillions of dollars incompetently trying to solve an imaginary problem. People like Prince Charles are the problem, not the solution. I think they are not just wrong, they are criminal. It’s the moral equivalence of shouting fire in a crowded cinema.
Chris
What happened between 2009 and 2017?
Massive agricultural change.
In the US plowed cropland was down to 80 million acres out of 300 million acres. (By plowed I mean the soil turned over. Not disced or furrowed, which are less intensive than plowing and release less carbon from the soil.)
Further, true no-till land management was up to ~30% of cropland (not plowed, disced, or furrowed). Perhaps shockingly Tennessee was leading the way with 75% of their cropland being under no-till land management in 2017.
I don’t know global no-till adoption rates, but it is a global change to how farming is done and when billions of acres are considered it changes net CO2 emissions significantly. Just not fossil fuel based CO2 emissions.
Fyi: the above is from the USDA 2017 farm census. Thus fairly reliable data.
Ever since Climategate, Prince Charles has been impervious to facts, reality and news of Earth’s recovery or lack of change.
Prince Charles frequent adherence to “urgent action” and cries of “wolf” over time along with the Prince’s desire/penchant for seeing disaster everywhere in healthy environments indicates that the Prince has apparently lived in an insulated fantasy and echo chamber for too long.
End result of the Prince announcing yet another “urgent” deadline!?
YAWN!
My first thought was of the Buddha whose father, it is said, protected him from all knowledge of human frailty and death. After that, my brain descended into a maelstrom of confusion.
The wolf’s at the door…again and again. Poor prince couldn’t protect himself from a real wolf if one were at his door. I’d like to see him try to outrun a lion in Rwanda, however.
I find Charles impossible. I am sure he has a complete disconnection between what he says and any reasonable analysis of climate! I would love to question him on the actual science, but I might get a rather blank look.
Rather? Very more like. He might have to phone a friend like his mate Sir David Attenbollocks.
Way to go Chuck! I’m with her, ahh him.
Long live the Queen!
yeah, not a royal devotee but hope shes around for some time to forestall chas being able to do much, prob is the sons and dippy megan are also true believers
“…We have 18 months to save world…”
Funny. I thought it was 12 years.
If you pick a date sufficiently far in the future, you won’t ever get called out on it. But people aren’t very scared by being told that the world will come to an end in 2500.
If you pick a date very close to the present, you can get a bit more urgency into your scam. But then, people can show you up as this date passes with nothing happening.
There must be a sweet point around 18 months? Perhaps Willis could do the maths for us?
Willis could. I expect Wills couldn’t.
18 Months? Isn’t that about how long till the next US Presidential Election?
Ah well, probably just a coincidence. Surely Gang Green doesn’t view the impending reelection of Trump as the inevitable end of their Climate Religion.
^¿^
I wonder if the Royals are in bed with Goldman Sachs, who just announced 2 sustainablity indices, the CDP Environment World EW and the CDP Environment Eurozone EW – private sector structured sustainable instruments.
CDP from the Carbon Disclosure Project has done ratings of 77 selected companies.
“We are convinced that sustainable finance enables financial markets to play a virtuous role in the economy.”
Rather a virtuous Royal prerogative, what?
In other words, is Goldman Sachs the appointed Commonwealth High Commission?
Goldman stands to gain any time a transactional market develops, they just take their trading cut. They are uninterested in the underlying reality of the marketplace, they just want the marketplace. About 80% of the metrics that Wall Street banks publish have no merit at all, just a marketing ruse.
When Prince Charles applied to the MBA program at the Wharton Business School he was politely told that his academic focus was not appropriate to the demands of the MBA program at the Wharton Business School. This is a tongue-in-cheek way of stating something that becomes more obvious day-by-day. I’m agreeing with above post “Long Live The Queen”.
When was the last time someone predicted “we have only 18 months”? I am sure it was more than 18 months ago.
When the transition of monarchial power from Queen Elizabeth occurs, so too will come the
Australian republic fulfilment
Charles has long ago set that scenario and lit the fuse.
Oh my, the dangers of inbreeding!
Lucky for Harry that is not a problem.
I see what you did there!
Are! But did he say which 18 months?