Anger over Prince Charles’s climate change blast

Dr Peiser said the Prince was wrong on the key issue that the West’s economic model was flawed.

“More advanced societies in Europe and North America have a much better track record on environmental policies than other parts of the world,” he said.

“But also the prescriptons he is promoting, such as biofuels, are part of the problem and have been the cause of food riots around the world.”

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Americans should brace for higher food prices this year now that demand for corn has pushed U.S. supplies to their lowest point in 15 years.

Higher projected orders from the ethanol industry sent corn futures soaring Wednesday, as corn supplies became the latest commodity to plummet.

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“First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.

“It’s hard once such a programme is put in place to deal with the lobbies that keep it going.”

He explained his own support for the original programme on his presidential ambitions.

“One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.”