Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Prince William demonstrating Prince Charles and Prince Harry are not the only woke British Royal Climate Change Hardliners.
Prince William’s personal warning on ‘drastic’ effects of climate change
Sunday 4 October 2020, 6:59pm
Chris ShipPrince William has spoken about the dangers of climate change and how it’s a threat on all of our doorsteps – including his own.
The Duke of Cambridge has allowed ITV cameras to follow his environmental work over the past two years and spoke on the Norfolk coast about how rising sea levels will engulf whole communities.
He was speaking on the Sandringham estate, where both he and The Queen have a home.
The Prince warned of a “very drastic” change from rising sea levels caused by melting ice sheets.
“We’ll lose the whole lot and it’ll sweep in and stay. When sea levels rise it will stay. It will not go back out again like everyone thinks it will”.
The consequences he said, in the documentary to be aired on Monday night, will be permanent.
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William said: “My grandfather, my father have been in the conservation, the environmental work for many years. My grandfather’s well ahead of his time. My father ahead of his time.
“And I really want to make sure that, in twenty years, George doesn’t turn round and say ‘are you ahead of your time?’ Because if he does, we’re too late.”
Read more: https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-04/prince-williams-personal-warning-on-drastic-effects-of-climate-change
I notice when I post articles on Prince Charles, some people express the hope that the British royal succession will skip a generation. The suggestion is Prince William would somehow be a safer pair of hands for the monarchy than Prince Charles.
In my opinion this is likely a false hope. If you dig into some of the things he says, it seems likely Prince William’s views on climate change and many other issues are likely at least as woke and out of touch as the views of his brother Prince Harry and his dad Prince Charles.
In October 2019, Andrew Neil of the BBC interviewed Zion Lights of Extinction Rebellion and pointed out to her that there is no scientific basis for the claims of massive sea rise this century, as espoused by ER and here by Prince William.
He explained to her that the average rise from the 4 UN scenarios was half a metre by end of century.
None of this has made any impression on catastrophists who insist we “follow the science.”
“Do as I say not as I do.”
I suggest a tiny house and to work from home for the prince to reduce his own massive co2-footprint.
There’s very little intelligence in any of the male side of the royal family. Princess Ann is the only sensible one of her generation.
“ It will not go back out again like everyone thinks it will”.”
Everyone? Who?
This might not be the stupidest statement ever, but it is close.
It is kinda telling that he thinks what he said is even worth saying.
At some point in time he must have been on the other side of the belief … that ‘it would go back out again’. Then he became very smart and enlightened and realized ‘it wouldn’t go back out’. He still hasn’t realized that he was pretty much alone in his initial understanding/assumption.
Funny thing is, William warned Harry not to endorse Biden because that was “political”, yet he feels emboldened to lecture everyone to change their entire lives, as if what he is doing is exactly the same.
For a number of years I was puzzled by the lack of intelligent presenters and guests on the BBC.
I could not understand, why a publicly funded body with virtually endless resources, would favour presenting the views of the uninformed as a priority and allow the views of their uneducated presenters to be aired.
Consider the fact the highest paid presenter on the BBC until they uplifted Zoe Ball’s salary by £1 million a few weeks back, was Gary Lineker. He is an ex football player, and is paid £1.75 million/year to host a late evening football show based on highlights of the days play. To be fair here, he has been so wounded by the criticisms of his insane salary, he volunteered to take a cut which allowed the uplifted Zoe Ball’s package to just become the top earning presenter at roughly £1.4 million. I could mention that Zoe has been so successful at presenting her show, she has lost as many listeners as her salary increase i.e. 1 million fewer in less than a year of presenting.
I mention this, simply to give an insight into what the BBC values. You can guess it is not scientific rigour.
As for the Royals. Well anyone who has been following the news coverage over the years, will understand they are a pretty dysfunctional lot. I could mention Prince Andrew, but singling him out would suggest current bias. His former wife is as mad as a box of frogs, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of the Queen, can’t wait for reincarnation as a deadly virus. Prince Charles the next King, regularly talks to the trees. It seems the trees always win those intellectual encounters. Prince Harry is off with the fairies somewhere, and no body even cares.
For Prince William to engage in the fear mongering drive, which the BBC has been championing for the past twenty years, informs us, even the future King is lacking any sense of personal strength or character.
Hey ho, if it mattered it would be a serious situation. Unfortunately the events now building in the world, will make these bizarre climate concerns about nothing, seem like the good days.
Just to underline what you are saying about the BBC, the BBC’s energy and environment analyst is Roger Harrabin who studied English at St Catherine’s College Cambridge. It doesn’t say on Wikipedia whether he got a degree in English, just that he studied it. Nevertheless he appears frequently on the radio, speaking with great authority about climate change and environmental matters.
Jeff,
Whatever level he achieved in English studying at St Catherine’s College, he certainly didn’t get involved in any sciences at any level.
Quote from Green Templeton.
“Roger Harrabin is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College. He is the BBC’s Environment Analyst and a senior journalist on environment and energy. He has reported on environmental issues since the 1980s, winning multiple awards.
Roger studied English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He began his journalism career in print before joining the BBC, reporting for programmes including Panorama, The World At One, The Ten O’Clock News and Radio 4’s Today.
The role of Environment Analyst was created for him in 2004 to allow Roger to work across all BBC media platforms (television, radio and online) as a journalist and presenter. His reporting often involves risk issues and, during a sabbatical at Green College (now Green Templeton College), he produced a King’s Fund paper called Health in the News which analysed how many people needed to experience a health problem for it to make national news.”
How considerate of the BBC to create a role for him all those years ago….
What a silly Willy. Stop following the proper Charley.
Did the Royals’ expensive educations not point out there is a country across the water and topologically-related to East Anglia? A lot of it’s been below sea level for centuries.
They seem to do awfully well, considering.
One can only hope he hasn’t acquired his fathers taste in Aston Martins then…..
This bozo promotes an entitlement environment and a victim mentality.
Sat at a dinner when Princess Anne delivered a lecture on the Battle of Barfleur. Saw that much of her notes were in her handwriting.
What an idiot. You can see the problem with these idiots, their intelligence does not match their ego.
Prince William’s history lessons, which he absorbed at the very expensive Eton college over a period of five years, should have taught him Churchill’s dictum: always read at least one newspaper or column which does not agree with your politics.
Instead, he has fallen under the spell of the silver-tongued Attenborough who is beginning to think he is attaining a God-like status (instead of merely realising that he is getting ever closer to meeting him).
I would dearly like William to get the opportunity to read some of the great posts that have appeared here over the years – especially some of Willis’s. Maybe Anthony could produce a compendium of posts and parcel them up – with stuff from Richard Lindzen and Andrew Montford’s ‘The Hockey Stick Illusion’ – and then post it off to him.
“always read at least one newspaper or column which does not agree with your politics.”
I read the Guardian online every day!
Prince William had a golden opportunity to remain neutral and not get political on any controversial matter. His involvement in the climate controversy is a HUGE mistake, and people like me now see him as just another political hack being used by the climate alarmists.
My psychic vibes are indicating that come the passing of Her Majesty, the future of the Royal Family is in jeopardy. By 2050, the Monarchy will be abolished in favour of a republic with a President, a House of Commons and an upper house Senate of elected members. That’s what I see into the future.
William said: “My grandfather, my father have been in the conservation, the environmental work for many years. My grandfather’s well ahead of his time.
Really?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-day-prince-philip-bagged-a-big-cat-x0sld9pmlqd
“At the start of the 20th century India was home to 100,000 tigers but numbers crashed in the years following independence.
In 1961, on an official visit to India by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh shot a tiger at Ranthambhore while a guest of the Maharajah of Jaipur.”
Turns out there is more than one kind of conservation.
Like keeping the mounted head of a tiger in the study or trophy room.
This hunting trophy will probably be in the family for generations to come. “Conservation”.
I’ve “lost” fights with my sisters 10 pound cat.
The thought of a 300-500 pound cat (tiger) just terrifies me.
Their strength when they go full psycho is amazing.
(And those claws really dig in.)
The royal family is an embarrassment to us Brits, there isn’t a brain cell between them and the way the media fawns over them is sickening. They should keep their over privileged opinions to themselves.
You’ll notice, I’m sure, that it’s always the rich, powerful and privileged who are exhorting us to give up the little we each own and grovel in the dirt, wearing our hair shirts, for any crusts they may deign to causally toss our way once they’ve ruined all commerce, manufacturing and normal means of earning sufficient living to keep our own bodies and souls in close contact?
Personally, I see it as an illness, a mental illness, that has them thinking they have the right to dictate to the rest of humanity, those of us not born into or admitted to their “inner circle” of marvellous, woke individuals.
I’ve also seen this attitude described as a sickness of the soul. Perhaps that’s closer to it.
As the old Colonial saying, “The fruit is not far from the fruitcake”. When the Queen passes, so should the the Kingship and allow the Brits to finally grow up. Plus if, if they confiscated their property but allow each one of them 20K pounds/year “pension”, they’d help their NHS.
Quite a lot of Royal coastline, which just happens to be full of wind turbines, is threatened by “sea levels”.
Looks like the Royals have skin in the game.
As for grandpa, he founded the WWF with ex-SS officer Prince Bernhard, starting the entire post WWII environmental snowball. The kid should know grandpa wants to be reborn as a deadly virus to do something about population (direct quote). Maybe the kid is already immune?
Quite correct, they are looking after the family business:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/17/offshore-wind-auction-could-raise-millions-for-queen
“Industry experts expect the complex bidding process to raise record sums, which could increase energy bills and hand a windfall to the crown – potentially generating hundreds of millions for the Queen.
The Crown Estate, which manages the monarch’s property portfolio, holds exclusive rights to lease the seabed around the British Isles for wind and wave power. Its profits go to the Treasury, which then sends 25% back to the royal household in the form of the sovereign grant.
The sovereign grant was increased two years ago, from its previous level of 15%, in order to pay for extensive renovations at Buckingham Palace. It is to stay at 25% for a 10-year period, meaning the royal household should benefit directly from the money raised from the new leases.
The Crown Estate does not make its forecasts public. However, if the government’s 2030 target is met, the Queen [or King Charles, or King William] could be collecting more than £100m a year within a decade.”
“I notice when I post articles on Prince Charles, some people express the hope that the British royal succession will skip a generation.”
I don’t see why the British don’t just imprison the entire family in the Tower of London and keep the loons from making the entire nation look stupid. Europeans think President Trump is bad, most Americans I know think the Royal Family is a collection of morons.
I like the Queen. I’m American.
Occasionally, I will see old world war II videos featuring the young Queen Elizabeth. She is an impressive woman, then and now.
Too much inbreeding
The real issue here is that the profiteers and authoritarians who are the beneficiaries of Global Warming Cult policies are so powerful that they have infiltrated advisers not only into the Royal Family but also into the Papacy. I am reluctant to abandon hope for Britain. Someone has to point out the insanity of fuelling the Drax power station with lumber imported from the USA. Someone has to point out that each windmill is a giant step towards national poverty.
Britain may have to learn the lesson the hard way.
Maybe California or Germany or South Australia will crash and burn first, and give Britain a good example of what *not* to do with regards to fighting the imaginary demon of human-caused climate change.
I don’t have much hope though. There are a great number of delusional politicians on the political Left, and it looks like they are the ones in charge in these locations that are struggling with wind and solar implementation.
Eventually everyone will see the light. The question is: How much damage will these delusional people do in the meantime?
Btw, I saw the tv program “Life, Liberty and Levin” on Fox News yesterday where Levin interviewed U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Every American should see this interview and every person on Earth who values freedom should see this video. I guess I’m going to have to buy Cruz’ new book “Just One Vote” where he shows us we are just one vote away in the U.S. Supreme Court from having a Leftwing overthrow of the U.S. Constitution, taking away free speech and gun ownership. And doing it legally!!! We are closer to disaster than we think.
Must see interview.
Prince Boy has a bit of a Brian Stelter face going on. Baby face.
His face reminds me of John Travolta, somehow. 🙂
Prince wants to save the world….I want to save the world too….from those who accuse the wonderful CO2 as a pollutant. Of course he never mentioned one of the worst climate warming negatives….hair thinning.
Monkey see, monkey do.