Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The Prince of Wales has criticised "corporate lobbyists" and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a "dying patient", in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming.
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He added: "The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying."
Hosting a two-day conference for forest scientists at St James's Palace in London, the heir to the throne – who is taking over from the Queen at this year's meeting of the Commonwealth in Sri Lanka – savagely satirised those who stand in the way of swift action on the climate.
He characterised them as "the confirmed sceptics" and "the international association of corporate lobbyists". Faced with these forces of opposition, "science finds itself up the proverbial double blind gum tree", he said.
His audience included Owen Paterson, the Tory secretary of state for the environment, said by some who know him to be sceptical of the scientific consensus on climate change, and who pointedly left climate change out of his speech and focused on other environmental issues such as biodiversity.
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A conference of forest scientists or lumber jacks? Renewable fuel standards imposed by the AGW crowd has the UK converting coal to wood requiring a forest the size of Rhode Island to keep it fed in a sustainable manner. Wood represents half th renewable fuel overall in Europe. Indonesian rainforests are being cut down to make room for palm oil plantation for biodiesel. Brazilian rain forests are coming down to make room for sugarcane based ethanol. The forests are suffering tremendous damage at the hands of the greens.
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