Rio Di Janeiro, March 12, 2009:
Charles Windsor, the heir to the British throne, spoke passionateley yesterday to a group of Brazilian officials regarding the threat of climate change. "As the world's economy heads further into recession, it would be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture; to commit the sin, as we say in England and if you will pardon the terrible pun, of 'not seeing the wood for the trees'. For we are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world's history," he said. "We are facing a series of challenges so immense that we can, perhaps, be forgiven for feeling they are all too forbidding to confront," the Prince of Wales added. "The best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behavior before we risk catastrophic climate change," he said. "If we can redouble our efforts to unite the world in meeting perhaps its greatest and most critical challenge, then we may yet be able to prevail and thereby to avoid bequeathing a poisoned chalice to our children and grandchildren," he said.
You may wonder what qualifies Charles to make pronouncements regarding our prospects of surviving climate change. Well, actually you have the same right, and feel free to exercise it. Prince Charles chooses to exercise his right to express himself, as a well educated non-scientist who is summarizing what the climatology community is saying without his name recognition.
In my view, it is possible to quibble with that figure of 100 months. But his construct is useful. Consider that we were first warned of the menace posed by climate change some 20 years ago in testimony before Congress, and in the intervening time as a nation the USA has done exactly nothing about it. Charles is attempting to apply a timeline, a yardstick, to inject a sense of urgency that has been lacking so far. If you say, gotta fix that within 8 years, you make a vague promise, go back to dealing with the recession, then glance at the calendar in 2017 and say dang, I knew I was forgetting something. But if you are dealing with climate change in monthly terms, you can remind yourself at the end of each month that you failed to replace fossil fuel with renewables yet again, and next month you are going to have to try harder.
Who would be be in favor of a monthly series on that theme, the 100 months of slowing climate change? Feel free to sneer at Prince Charles failed marriage, but that is irrelevant to this issue. As I say, it is already noted that Charles is a non-scientist- but it should also be noted that he is merely echoing the voices of scientists who are not being heard.
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~M
Another Global Warmist jetting around the globe spewing tons of C02 into our atmosphere telling the rest of you and I to constrain our lifestyles to save the planet as they don't.
What is your point by the way.
the IPCC publicly admitted the nearly 8 year (at the time) temperature plateau 2 years ago and was going to investigate, if there was an explanation I'm sure one of you Gather global warmists would know about it and posted it.
You as global warmists have been saying "look the temperature is rising as the C02 level rises so the IPCC science is sound but now that the temperature is not rising many of you say "but you can't base climate change on such a short time frame".
I say it is faith that you have, and if the sun becomes active again (which is likely) and drives the earth's temperature up again you all will say, see told you so and continue the C02 claim.
But how many years of a quiet sun and temperature moderation will it take for the global warmists to admit that the sun and NOT C02 is the major factor in global warming? We are are already at 10 years now.
And still you believe.