The Queen of England is afraid

[donsu]

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2242/While_Washington_Slept


The Queen of England is afraid. International C.E.O.'s are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear.




Ten months before Hurricane Katrina left much of New Orleans underwater, Queen Elizabeth II had a private conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair about George W. Bush. The Queen’s tradition of meeting once a week with Britain’s elected head of government to discuss matters of state—usually on Tuesday evenings in Buckingham Palace and always alone, to ensure maximum confidentiality—goes back to 1952, the year she ascended the throne. In all that time, the contents of those chats rarely if ever leaked.

So it was extraordinary when London’s Observer reported, on October 31, 2004, that the Queen had “made a rare intervention in world politics” by telling Blair of “her grave concerns over the White House’s stance on global warming.” The Observer did not name its sources, but one of them subsequently spoke to Vanity Fair.

“The Queen first of all made it clear that Buckingham Palace would be happy to help raise awareness about the climate problem,” says the source, a high-level environmental expert who was briefed about the conversation. ” definitely concerned about the American position and hoped the prime minister could help change .”

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The Queen, says King, “got it” on climate change, and she wasn’t alone. “Everyone in this country, from the political parties to the scientific establishment, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to our oil companies and the larger business community, has come to a popular consensus about climate change—a sense of alarm and a conviction that action is needed now, not in the future,” says Tony Juniper, executive director of the British arm of the environmental group Friends of the Earth.
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thank you Queen

[acmavm]

1. She has some kind of crazy idea that Tony can influence blivet. Hasn't

she been paying attention. The system works the other way around. Tony has been the neglected spouse in this relationship. He gives and gives and gives and what does he get in return?

Nothing.

[WolverineDG]

5. Note the date on this

October 2004. In late May-early June 2005, I was in the UK while Blair was in the US visiting shrubbie. All of the newspapers & TV news shows reported on this visit, & how Blair was expecting shrubbie to back in 100% on countering global warming because he (Blair) had backed shrubbie 100% on the Iraq war. Things really got bad when Blair came back to the UK empty-handed. Over here, no one seemed to know that Blair had even visited or what the purpose of the visit was. Why? Because Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba. I didn't know about that until I got home. There as nothing about it in the news in the UK that I remember seeing.

dg

[enid602]

2. the Queen

Why did she single out Bush's policy on global warming? She must approve of torture, domestic spying, massive corruption, huge interruptions to global markets, evangelical theocracy, unilterally attacking other countries and WWIII.

[donsu]

3. she could ignore all that but global warming will ruin her gardens and

swamp a good part of England

[roguevalley]

4. or just maybe she's damned aware that if the oceans rise, half

her country will be underwater. give her credit when she's right. she's right on this and speaking up. what more can a person be asked to do? she's doing it.