Prince Charles slams climate-change deniers
Source: Associated Press
Prince Charles has called people who deny human-made climate change a "headless chicken brigade" who are ignoring overwhelming scientific evidence.
The heir to the British throne, a dedicated environmentalist, accused "powerful groups of deniers" of mounting "a barrage of sheer intimidation" against opponents.
He made the comments at a Buckingham Palace awards ceremony on Thursday.
Charles said it was "baffling ... that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything until, that is, it comes to climate science.". . .
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/prince-charles-slams-climate-change-deniers-161325107.html
If Prince Charles thinks we all have "blind trust in science" he's never met a Freeper.
Nevertheless, I applaud his calling it like it is. Hear, hear, what ho, and all that rot.
alsame
(7,784 posts)apology yet?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)for open-heart surgery.
They don't understand that the same kind of methodology that makes open-heart surgery possible predicts that the coming climate change is primarily due to human causes.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The same ones who dragged Tony into an illegal war.
raccoon
(31,112 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)While I personally don't care for the man (anyone who couldn't see how assume Diana was is a fool), the royal family is in a really awkward political position. They are figure heads who are not supposed to take official positions. That must be really hard to do.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Prince Charles faces scrutiny by MPs over veto on laws
Parliament to examine heir to the throne's little-known veto over any laws that affect his private interests
The British parliament is to investigate Prince Charles's controversial role in helping to shape government legislation in a move likely to increase pressure on Whitehall to reduce the secrecy around alleged royal lobbying.
MPs will examine the heir to the throne's little-known royal veto over any new laws that affect his private interests next month. The move follows a Guardian investigation in 2011 into the secretive constitutional loophole that revealed how ministers have been forced to seek permission from the prince to pass at least a dozen government bills.
The House of Commons political and constitutional reform committee, chaired by the Labour MP Graham Allen, will ask whether there is a risk that the requirement of royal consent, which is also granted by the Queen depending on the nature of the law being passed, "could be seen as politicising the monarchy".
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/12/prince-charles-scrutiny-mps-lobbying
Prince Charles criticised for 'planting moles' in government departments
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/18/prince-charles-moles-government-departments
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Wow! I had no idea.
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)through it all has always been an intelligent gentleman
worthy of his position and more than quite intelligent.
"headless chicken brigade"? LOL Good one, Prince Charles!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Ugh.
Theyletmeeatcake2
(348 posts)Go Chuckie!!!!woohoo! Tell them where to go!! e
Cha
(297,467 posts)that!!