Should you be getting your climate "reality checks" from the Prince of Wales?

Fueling Station | tampabay.com - St. Petersburg Times and tbt*

* His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, provided a useful reality check at lunchtime, albeit in a pre-recorded video, which the Prince described as a "virtual, virtuous low carbon" appearance.
He praised Crist for his "courageous determination" to get things moving in Florida. Even so, not enough was being done to combat global warming. The Prince dedicated his presentation to highlighting the impact of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions. He described the world's forests as "giant global utilities" which store carbon and act as "a natural thermostat" for the planet.
In the last 50 years he said we have lost 50 per cent of the world's rain forest, "and the destruction goes on relentlessly," he said.

"We are destroying our planet's air-conditioning system," he added. The Prince said that time was running out. "There is just the smallest window left to stop catastrophic climate change."

Note that this is the same Prince of Wales who toured the Caribbean on a 246-foot yacht a few months ago...