{"id":256593,"date":"2023-05-09T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256593"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:10:03","slug":"king-charles-iii-has-a-climate-record-to-live-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256593","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III Has a Climate Record to Live Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"714\" data-attachment-id=\"256595\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=256595\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?fit=754%2C745&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"754,745\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0charles\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?fit=723%2C714&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?resize=723%2C714&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?w=754&amp;ssl=1 754w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/Tallbloke's Talkshop\">Tallbloke&#8217;s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 6, 2023 by\u00a0<strong>oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Climate alarmism with an end date is asking for trouble, to say the least. Gems such as this from 2008 \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/theroyalfamily\/1961719\/Prince-Charles-Eighteen-months-to-stop-climate-change-disaster.html\">Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 spring to mind.<\/em><br>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<br>This Saturday\u2019s coronation of King Charles III marks a significant moment in Britain\u2019s history,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2023\/05\/04\/king_charles_iii_has_a_climate_record_to_live_down_897662.html\">says Rupert Darwall<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No previous constitutional monarch has expressed his political views so openly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike his mother and grandfather, whose opinions, if they had any, remained unknown to the general public, the king\u2019s record-setting seventy years as heir apparent to the British throne saw him define himself as a deeply committed environmentalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">. . .<br>Father and son clashed on wind farms. In 2011, a wind farm developer reported that Prince Philip had told him that wind farms were \u201cuseless, completely reliant on subsidies, and an absolute disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his movie \u201cHarmony\u2014A new way of looking at the world,\u201d Charles speaks of wind energy \u201cworking with nature\u2019s freely-given forms\u201d and the need to \u201cend our dependence on fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the film\u2019s opening sequence, showing a wind turbine in a meadow, Charles intones, \u201cTime is running out.\u201d<br>. . .<br>A 2021 paper on extreme climate forecasts tabulates 79 predictions of climate-caused catastrophe dating back to the first Earth Day in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles has the distinction of being the only individual to be featured three times, with separate predictions of climate apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the paper\u2019s co-author David Rode of Carnegie Mellon University comments, alongside Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, Prince Charles has \u201cwarned repeatedly of \u2018irretrievable ecosystem collapse\u2019 if actions were not taken, repeated the prediction with a new definitive end date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their predictions have repeatedly been apocalyptic and highly certain . . . and so far, they\u2019ve also been wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s hoping that the reign of King Charles will be a happier affair than his failed forecasts of climate doom. Long live the King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Full article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2023\/05\/04\/king_charles_iii_has_a_climate_record_to_live_down_897662.html\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate alarmism with an end date is asking for trouble, to say the least. Gems such as this from 2008 \u2014\u00a0Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster\u00a0\u2014 spring to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":256595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819134,691819352,691819353],"class_list":{"0":"post-256593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-doom","10":"tag-king-charles-iii","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0charles.webp?fit=754%2C745&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14KB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218855,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=218855","url_meta":{"origin":256593,"position":0},"title":"Time: UK PM Liz Truss has Shown \u201cStrikingly Little Interest\u201d in Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Time Magazine picking up on the potential climate policy conflict between King Charles and Britain\u2019s new Prime Minister Liz Truss.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-713.png?fit=750%2C505&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-713.png?fit=750%2C505&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-713.png?fit=750%2C505&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-713.png?fit=750%2C505&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":256190,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256190","url_meta":{"origin":256593,"position":1},"title":"King Charles III has a climate record to live down","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s hoping that the reign of King Charles will be a happier affair than his failed forecasts of climate doom. 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