Prince Charles: 'My duty is to save the world' | Mail Online

But the Prince has previously come under fire for hypocrisy over his eco-values. Last year he commandeered a jet belonging to the Queen’s Flight to attend the Copenhagen climate change summit, generating an estimated 6.4 tons of carbon dioxide - 5.2 tons more than if he had used a commercial plane.

Critics condemned his words as ‘delusional’.

The Met Office's climate change report: between denial and alarm lies reality – Telegraph Blogs

Gardner uses in his book as an example of the more alarmist tendencies an ad for the World Wildlife Fund, showing a boy playing baseball in water up to his shoulders. The IPCC actually warns of sea level rises between seven and 23 inches. “That is serious”, says Gardner, “but it doesn’t lend itself to public campaigning, because a picture of someone shin-deep in water isn’t going to catch the attention”.

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Anyway, at least five now concede that we may not even reach last year’s low. Strangely, after July’s slow melt, some have grown even more pessimistic. Then again, optimism has never been a trait one finds in climate “science”.