Prince Charles Blasts America's Corrosive Anti-Environmental Action Beliefs
GreenTracker| Prince Charles blasted climate change skeptics in a speech make before the European Parliament in Brussels Wednesday, especially citing doubters in the United States who are having a “corrosive effect” on public opinion.
“Their suggestion, that hundreds of scientists around the world … are somehow unconsciously biased, creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine and deliberately destroy the entire market-based capitalist system,” he said.
Charles asked: “How are these people going to face their grandchildren and admit to them that they failed their future?” via Europolitics
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Prince Charles Addressing Climate Sceptics
The Economist weighs in with their own analysis in Why don’t Americans believe in global warming? apologizing for the trick headline because in 2011 Rasmussen Energy Update reported that 58% of Americans do believe in climate change.
It’s correct to say that the numbers have declined. The Economist explores American attitudes about climate change on these fronts:
Psychological: The consequences of climate change are too awful to contemplate. Therefore, we’re denying the issue, as we used to deny monsters in the room by hiding under the blanket. If you don’t look at it, it can’t look at you.
Economic: The costs of a large-scale effort to fight global warming are too steep to bear. Therefore, we’re trying to ignore the issue, or pretending it doesn’t exist, or we believe that the economy (including development) is more important.
Political: The fact that Democrats are always hammering on about climate change and Republicans aren’t suggests that this is a political issue, not a scientific one. This creates a feedback loop: if climate change were real, why is it so polarising? Because it’s so polarising, it must be slightly suspicious.
Epistemological: Why should we believe in climate change? Where’s the evidence? All we know is what scientists say, and scientists are sometimes wrong. And don’t even get me started on Al Gore.
Metaphysical: God isn’t going to let millions of people die in an epic drought.
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Planetology is an infant science, and to say infant is actually an overstatement, it is an embryonic science. Is the climate changing? Yes. Is it technology causing the change? Perhaps. But when expressing the amount of money at stake (money: the current time-unit for measuring human life and effort) starts needing exponents in the exponents I'm going to be very skeptical of claims made by folks I've never met based on numbers I didn't collect.
Prince Charles, you whose countrymen own a huge (at one point the largest) share of my sold out and utterly betrayed nation, considering all things known worthless to have been hustled on the innocent by media mounted lies professionally crafted by the mad men of advertising it is not hard at all to believe the entire affair is nothing more than a profit based plot hustling yet another "oh my god buy our product or die" co-sponsored onto the airwaves by the alliance of corporations competing (aka, at war with) the alliance of corporations that just brought us all the delightfully violent and beautifully counterproductive reign of Dubya the Greaterist.
Is the climate changing? Yes, it is, cause irrelevant. How to deal with it is quite the question. The ecofreaks have been conditioned to blame technology, and equally conditioned to ignore the fact that without technology the net result will be a human die off to make any and every other act of genocide ever perpetrated miniscule by comparison. There is a good chance mother nature has that thought kicking around in the back of her mind anyway, beautiful lady that she is she's a tough old gal as well, not at all above pruning and culling when there's a need. Setting all numbers from all sources as equally valid it would appear that no technology or to much technology will yield the same result.
Where the conservatives may be continuing on secure in their faith God won't let the climate change that much the ecofreaks are equally a faith based operation, their faith that "someone will figure out how to keep me eating fat free fig newton's in air conditioned comfort, someone will, I mean like, you know, someone always has…" is just as blind as the one that supports the conservatives. Neither group is known for producing a particularly high percentage of genuine tech/scientific savvy, and both groups are living on faith that someone else knows what to do, the major difference being the conservatives say pray harder and the ecofreaks say whine louder.
Anyhow, I'm pretty sure we can keep Earth a viable class M planet if all the politically correct drum beating for cause (whichever cause that might be) doesn't set up such a harmonic it unbalances plate tectonics to the point earthquakes kill us off before we have time to cook. When I'm not amusing myself being a nuisance to the socially adept and politically motivated it is not uncommon at all to find me in the realms of alternate energy technologies, they are a long standing hobby of mine. I have figured out how to do several things that would be of great value to the cause of mitigating global warming, equally they would be of even greater value to any cartel that hustled the lie of global warming to shift the econo-political balances of power whence Prince Charles and Dubya alike derive their power and title. Until I'm convinced the environmentalists are legitimate science and not corrupted pitch men my ideas will stay right where they are, which is in my head and nowhere else. I've run the numbers, they'll work, I'm not going to leave them lying around to be stolen. Until then I'm on strike.