Warming Earth Down to Its 'Last Chance': Charles

Prince warns of catastrophe if world continues to balk at taking action

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted May 28, 2009 9:47 AM CDT

(Newser) – Prince Charles warned yesterday that the world's unwillingness to take action on climate change means disaster is looming, the Daily Telegraph reports. The prince, addressing the Nobel Laureates Symposium, said that although a "mercifully small—if vociferous—number" of people still reject the science of climate change, a far greater number "fail to recognize the real urgency of the situation."

"It seems to me that in many ways we already have some of the answers to hand," the prince said. "We know about energy efficiency, renewable energy, and how to reduce deforestation, to name but a few, but we seem strangely reluctant to apply them. I fear that this hesitation will have catastrophic consequences."

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Prince Charles warned a conference yesterday that saving the world's rainforests is not option, it is an absolute necessity. (AP Photo / Adrian Dennis, pool)

Prince Charles meets with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, right, during a reception for Nobel Laureates and climate change experts, at St James's Palace in London earlier this week. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)

Britain's Prince Charles sits alongside an animated frog in a clip from a 90-second video launched by Britain's Prince Charles in his campaign to protect the world's rainforests. (AP Photo/Clarence House, PA)

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Robert_Dada

May 28, 2009 10:04 AM CDT

Steven Milloy is a known hack and a shill for polluting industries.

Rob

May 28, 2009 7:57 AM CDT

The problem with Global Warming is that the biosphere is a self-correcting system and to date the effects are hidden. But we are approaching the point break here, and when it comes the effects will be fast and devastating. The melting glaciers and shrinking poles, heavy hitting hurricanes and typhoons, and changing weather patterns are all part of the warning signs. Unfortunately, many people who are actually educated in this complex field are convinced it may already be too late for changing things.

Robert_Dada

May 28, 2009 4:52 AM CDT

I couldn't agree more.

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Warming Earth Down to Its 'Last Chance': Charles