Essay by Eric Worrall
As Australia wakes up to the Iran War reality we still need fossil fuel, King Charles chooses now to push his climate obsession.
The letter from King Charles;
From the ABC;
King Charles praises Territorians, warns of climate change dangers in open letter on ‘devastating’ NT wet season
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King Charles has written an open letter to Northern Territory residents in the wake of a series of recent natural disasters, warning the “increasingly catastrophic effects of climate change are surely a siren-call to the world for more urgent action”.
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It comes after multiple NT communities experienced widespread damage from flooding and ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle last month, leaving hundreds of Territorians displaced, with many yet to return home.
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NT Administrator David Connolly said the king’s letter had come after he wrote to Charles “to share with him the devastating impact of the 2026 wet season”.
…King ‘sharpening his language’
King Charles has been outspoken about environmental issues over many years, even collaborating on a documentary tracking his “personal journey as an environmentalist” released earlier this year.
But journalist and author of The Royals in Australia, Juliet Rieden, said the comprehensiveness of the King’s latest letter set it apart from his previous commentary.
“What is very different about this particular message is its length and its level of detail about climate change,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/king-charles-open-letter-nt-flooding-climate-change-warning/106546988
Bad timing Charlie. Greens have been noticeably pulling back their usual Net Zero rhetoric in the last few weeks, in the face of Aussie fury at wholly inadequate preparation for Iran war fuel shortages. People are asking questions like whether political Net Zero obsession led to our refineries being closed, forcing our green Prime Minister to try to defend his non-existent record of keeping refineries open.
The obvious question, will the King’s crass insensitivity renew calls for an Australian Republic?
Even if there is another referendum, I doubt it will succeed. The holdup is not love for the monarchy, the problem is the selfishness of our politicians. The issue which caused the last referendum on becoming a republic in 1999 to fail is the unpopular new constitution proposed by the government of the day.
The Aussie people wanted a US Presidential style republic with a directly elected president acting as defender of the constitution, but what we were offered was a weak puppet president, with the office of Prime Minister becoming all powerful.
The one function the monarchy still performs in Australia is defender of the constitution. In 1975 the far left Whitlam government was dismissed using rarely exercised royal powers, after it flirted with outright communism and seizure of private property.
The form of republic Aussies were offered in 1999 would have removed the threat of dismissal for politicians who blatantly violate the constitution.
Such a transparent attempted power grab understandably failed to fire the imagination of Australian voters.
It is revolting that Charles is abusing his position to push the blatant lie that there has been an increase in severe weather events caused by climate change. You would think that this is a time for Charles to keep his ludicrous opinions to himself given the problems which the royal family is currently experiencing.
To quote George Costanza:
“It’s not a lie if you believe it”
🙂
And that is how you fool a polygraph
No kings.
now we know why the queen wouldn’t give up the title – she wanted as short a reign for Charles as possible – she knew he was an idiot
Cambridge University does not give good degrees to idiots.
Yes they do. And so do many other prestigious universities around the world. Don’t fool yourself into believing pompous and arrogant intellectuals aren’t idiots.
I note, with particular interest, that Charlie way back in July 2019 declared that he and “global leaders” had 18 months to “save the world”. (see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/07/11/18-months-save-world-prince-charles-urges-commonwealth-leaders/ )
Let’s see . . . working through the math . . . yeah, we are now more than 5 years beyond the time of his prediction that the world could no longer be “saved”. So, why is he still alarmed over an unrecoverable climate situation?
All is lost already . . . or perhaps his scientific acumen regarding climate and climate change is no better now than it was back in 2019.
ROTFL.
What makes anybody think that someone like King Charles should be more immune to the “collective wisdom” that lemming like mortals believe every day?
People have been subject to this propaganda for at least two generations, just as people in their day believed that the earth was flat.
Even though they spent tons of money on your education Chuckie, they failed to include critical thinking. I remember reading about your birth in Life Magazine, and earlier your Mother’s fantastic Wedding.
P.S. My Bride was Lovelier.
You can’t have critical thinking when you live in a 800.000 squarefeet palace(+ a few dozen million squarefeet of other properties around the planet) when telling people to cut down on fossil fuels,
while the public funding you get from them went this year up from a tiny 83 mio to 132 mio pounds.
And when on top your Daddy Battenberg is a dude who wished to reincarnate as virus to cull down the global population,
then your motives about climate change may have an entirely different intention than you officially claim.
How do they heat the palace and Parliament? Gotta be some of that free green energy, right?
Buckingham Palace uses gas for heating.
There’s a lot of hot air coming from Buckingham Palace, but it’s not due to the combustion of natural gas or propane.
Heating of Buckingham Palace may be the ultimate proof of how useless green energy actually is.
I always aspired to get rich enough to become a lefty.
Alas . . .
And industry-heavy wind and solar power are “Nature-based solutions?”
[“And when on top your Daddy Battenberg is a dude who wished to reincarnate as virus to cull down the global population,“]
And Charlie wanted to be a tampon …Tampongate scandal December 18, 1989,
Charles”Oh. God. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!”
Camilla “What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers.”
Charles”Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck !”
That’s the sick bastard who’s our head of state, & tells us how to think. (:-((
Nonetheless, the “Crown” was riveting!
Next up on ABC –
“At Home With Joe And Jill”
Is critical thinking a skill to be learned at school or a habit of certain personality types?
I have been a monarchist on the basis that who needs another elected idiot running the country. But Charles is making me question that preference. He has no idea what he is talking about and even if Australia had met every climate target, the growth of Chinese and Indian emissions in a month crowds out our annual emissions. He should keep his mouth shut. Parts of the territory flood whenever there is a thing called a wet season – usually once a year! Worse if we get cyclones – that’s hurricanes for northern hemisphere dwellers. We have NOT had a lot of cyclones by Aussie standards in recent years.
Worse, even, he nostalgically comments on the damage he observed over 50 years ago while claiming that the “climate” is rapidly changing for the worse.
I too used to be in favour of the British Monarchy, but Charles III’s recent conduct has turned me into a fervent Republican. Recently he gave a grovelling address to the Muslim community for Eid al-Fitr, but failed to do the same with the Christians for Easter..
Uh-oh, maybe he’s converted?
Or a Liverpool fan?
He certainly makes a great case for the AI models for informed leadership roles. A bumpy training period is better than this consistent rot.
Chilla has obviously never read Dorothea MacKellar’s classic ode “My Country”.
Australia – a land of drought and flooding rains
He is always at his best when he keeps his mouth shut.
Princess Anne, his younger sister, does just that, concentrating quietly on doing charitable work behind the scenes. No one has a bad word to say about her as a result.
He didn’t even pass O-level science and talks to carrots, what do you expect!!!
He talks to himself?
I say old chap, bit a dick are you not ?
That made me CHUCKle.
So Charlie, what our 1.2% emissions are driving the entire planets climate?
What is next Charlie are you going to give Australians Romantic and Marital advice?
Hopefully the clowns son takes more after his mother.
sadly NO hes all in on the climate bullshit as well ;-( I had hoped…but dashed
A simple check of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology will show that both number and severity of cyclones in this area of the world have DECREASED over the past 50 years.. but why let the truth get in the way of a cultist ideology…
I know, right? If only they had done more about climate, the climate would be exactly the same, plus they’d be a lot poorer for it. Win-win!
Do Australian’s want a strong Obama, or Biden type presidency? Or a Trump, or Bush type presidency? Views seems rather mixed!
Australia does not of course have a president. Speaking only for myself I’m happy to consider changes to Australia’s constitutional arrangements just as soon as somebody comes up with changes which I think might be improvements.
I must say however that the US model is not one I would recommend to even my worst enemy. Then again, it must have seemed like a good idea at the time as no doubt did the Australian model.
Oh, and as for King Charles what can I say. He needs better advisors and letter writers.
Australia can not have any of that it’s constitution does not allow it and we can’t even vote for it.
Australia is a federation of States and the States hold most of the real power and only cede powers to the Federal government by unanimous agreement of all States. Some initial powers were agreed at federation including defense, immigration, currency, and external affairs and others have been given over time.
If you want to dissolve the Federation of Australia we would go back to individual states and then you would have to start from there.
What happened with Covid? Australia went bat sh1t crazy with authoritarian control. Well lots of countries did 🙁
Before America developed its constitution, it also had a “confederation” which was incapable of anything.
Wrong Chuckles…
They should have done more about water storage and potential flood mitigation
that would have been a much better expense than “clean and green energy”
It was the ancestor of Charles III mad King George III of the House of Hanover who started disastrous climate change in Australia by sending all his ‘deplorables’ here starting in 1787.
Before that the weather in Australia was idyllic, there were absolutely no floods droughts bushfires or any other indications of climate change recorded in Australia before 1787.
Consequently in the same way compensation for historical slavery is now demanded of US citizens of European ancestry, compensation for all damages due to climate change in Australia should be sought from the House of Windsor (née House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) in the International Court of Justice 😎 .
Hmmm . . . just wondering if “recorded by” has traceability to whom, using what scientific instruments, of what climate parameters (beyond perhaps just air temperature*), and to what level of accuracy?
*Note: According to Google’s AI bot, the first accurate and widely used mercury-in-glass thermometer was invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714, but it wasn’t until 1724 that it was further refined with a standardized scale that allowing for reliable, universal temperature measurements in science and medicine.
Not at clear if you meant your comment to be serious or sarcastic.
And as has been said: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
The Un-Science of the King.
Say what? You mean The King ain’t infallible? I’m shocked.
I think he is the King of Pain-in-the-arse. (Apologies to Sting.)
Can any reader find the date on which Price Charles viewed the post-Tracy Darwin wreckage?
While living in Sydney, I travelled often to Darwin 1973-1993. We had 70 employees in Darwin when Tracy struck – fortunately no serious injuries. The name of the game was to immediately reduce Darwin population and so lower stress on supplies of food, clothing, shelter. Geoff S
What about the 1939 Australian wildfires –
https://www.ffm.vic.gov.au/history-and-incidents/black-friday-1939
Black Friday 1939 was the culmination of a dry summer following a drought period that lasted years.
Fanned by powerful winds, the Black Friday fires (13 January 1939) swept rapidly across large areas of Victoria, causing widespread destruction. Flames leaped large distances, and giant trees were blown out of the ground by fierce winds. Large pieces of burning bark (embers) were carried for kilometres, starting new fires in places that had not previously been affected by flames.
Almost two million hectares burned across the state. Large areas of state forest, containing giant stands of Mountain Ash and other valuable timbers, were destroyed. As a result, approximately 575,000 hectares of reserved forest and 780,000 hectares of Crown land burned.
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And who killed the Mungo men?
But that was all before The King was born so there’s no way he could know about it. 🙂
From Monty Python’s “Search For The Holy Grail”
“How do we know he’s a king?”
“He’s not covered in shit like the rest of us”
In fairness to the King, it’s unlikely that he wrote the letter. Public pronouncements of this kind tend to be written by ‘His’ Government: ie Albanese. For the sake of balance, I also think it unlikely that the King hesitated before signing.
Right on! . . . It is obvious that either “learned scholars” in the employment of His Majesty—possibly even assisted by a modern-day AI bot—composed the letter posted in the above article above the typed name “Charles R” . . . it even appears that author(s)/AI bot forgot to include the honorific “HRH” (His Royal Highness) in that bottom line!
Here is the word salad of terms in that letter that are commonly found in communications from high-level “rulers” when speaking to/addressing lower-level citizens, populace, proletariat, plebeians, peasantry, or serfs:
— “profoundly concerned”
— “devastating havoc”
— “every facet of society”
— “deeply conscious”
— “endured the harsh reality of”
— “borne the brunt of its destructive extremes”
— “your cherished homes”
— “hard-fought livelihoods”
— “your essential connections to one another”.
And the above are found in just the first two paragraphs of King Charles’ letter given in the above article! I had to stop there because my stomach was turning from such verbiage.
Charlie Chump is now King of the Chumps.
He’s an embarrassing & very expensive waste of space.
Centuries of inbreeding have diminished his IQ.
His mother tried to live as long as possible to minimize the opportunity for this dimwit to expose his deficiencies to the world. It didn’t work. I’m sure she’ll have a word with him when he joins the choir invisible.
His latest version of “Losing his head”?
I think maybe AI King and AI Pope could do better at thinking and caring than this.
A few days ago, The Holy Father demanded that Trump not bomb the power plants and bridges in Iran. With all due respect to the Holy Father, that’s a topic far out of his domain.
Yep . . . as had been said previously when referring to pronouncements from the Pope:
“You no play-a da game, you no make-a da rules.”
Hey, Mr. ToldYouSo, just saw your handle in a Fox News YouTube video. Must have been you ’cause who else would come up with that handle? I responded to your comment there. Of course the new Pope is American so he no talka like that. 🙂
JZ, you are, not surprisingly, mistaken. I never posted to any Fox News YouTube video with my pen name “ToldYouSo”.
Hmmm . . . so ready to conclude anything that will support you confirmation bias.
As to your assertion, why did you fail to post here what your claim I posted on that particular Fox News YouTube video as well as your response so that any WUWT reader can check out what you claim? Or at least to provide a URL link to such??? Hmmmm . . .
Finally, perhaps you are unaware that Pope Leo speaks fluent Italian (in addition to fluent English), which he uses as his primary language for his duties as Bishop of Rome and for addressing crowds at St. Peter’s Square, so he indeed could talk-a like what I asserted.
Of course he speaks Italian- the most beautiful language on this planet. As for your silly handle, I guess you’re not the only one who invented that one. Maybe it’s popular in your crowd. 🙂
I’m actually surprised he’s fluent in Italian- that certainly would not be necessary as a cardinal. Speaking Latin is required if you want the top job. I wish I could speak Italian since all my grandparents care from Italy, legally! I’m not sure sure the Pope speaks English- but he does speak American, being an American.
And, of course, you have shown repeatedly have very little you actually know about “my crowd” . . . I need not respond further.
I don’t care to know about your crowd- but if it’s worthy information, be sure to include it.
Then why did you bring up the subject in the first place?
The King is a wanker. 🙂
What more could be said of a Human Male who would prefer Camilla over Diana.
Same could be said of Macron.
Don’t you Aussies know that if you sacrifice your standard of living- almost going back to the level of your aborigines 1,000 years ago, you’ll have perfect weather every day?
The use of the King to introduce anxiety into Australian weather patterns is yet another example of how determined the climate alarmist community are to push their flawed concerns onto others.
The willingness of the Palace to embrace Climate Change as a thing and openly claim all the bad things happening are climate change while ignoring the good things when they happen no doubt putting such circumstances down to weather.
The easy statement Charles issues suggesting extreme weather events are now happening regularly, is something easily challenged and easily dismissed as hype. That simple reality does not seem to trouble the Palace script writers. They clearly must push King Charles’s pet anxieties even when they are clearly nonsense.
The ignorance of the left side of politics and society generally is expanding and becoming ever more vocal. It is difficult to see what agency will change this decline in our capacity to think and to study facts. Civilisation is in danger, our past trust in facts and truth are being dismissed as irrelevant in these woke focused times. The sad thing is William is every bit as dedicated to the woke and the green ideology as his father is.
Churchill issued his thanks to all in Britain and to the empire in 1940 resisting the invasion from Nazi Germany, little did he know that his laudable claim “If the empire should last a thousand years they will record, this was their finest hour” that prophesy, along with the nation, would be in tatters along with the empire in less than 100 years hence. How would he speak to Charles today a boy he had seen grow into a youth? Could he ever have imagined such a privileged child could end up so delusional and so wrong?
He always suffered from a desperate desire to be relevant.
His desperation gets more intense as he approaches his dotage and he has to acknowledge his irrelevance.
Wait … “siren-call” … as in “siren song,” a magical, tempting song in Greek mythology that leads men to their deaths?!
The king’s allegory is more realistic and appropriate than he understands. I guess they’re not teaching Classics at Cambridge anymore.
Yes, “more urgent [climate] action” does lead many people to their deaths and should be avoided, just like the “siren-call.”
powers of dismissal , well we NEED that to be used..NOW!.. it wont be cos GG is right up albos butt a hefty payrise sure didnt hurt huh?
and as for the POS laughingly called our constitution?
its all about what THEY control- what WE have to do=- and F ALL about ANY rights of the people its a disgusting list of power and control OVER the populace which are treated as the criminal society they ( pommy overlords) targeted it for and added to ad nauseum
needs ripping up
With Australia about to run out of diesel fuel in a few weeks, maybe His Majesty should start thinking about rebuilding the Royal Navy so that oil tankers can pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The UK sent one battleship, which had to stop for repairs. Brittania doesn’t rule the waves anymore!
The Northern Territory of Australia is a normally dry land (desert) that gets occasional heavy rains. There have been other places in history that have faced the same problem, such as Egypt during the time of Joseph in the book of Genesis, the Roman Empire, and modern California and Utah. Civilized people throughout history have dealt with this problem by building dams and aqueducts to store water from heavy rains or floods, and use it during dry seasons to irrigate crops.
If an area has a climate similar to that of the Roman Empire, why not do as the Romans did? It’s much easier and cheaper than trying to change the weather!