Posted on 06/27/2007 4:34:02 AM PDT by theothercheek
An annual accounting of Prince Charles’s households - printed on recycled paper in vegetable-based ink – finds that he has cut his annual carbon emissions by nine percent, to 3,775 tons, between April 1, 2006 and March 31 of this year. He achieved this historical feat by cutting back on helicopter jaunts and converting his Jag and Landie to run on used cooking oil, reports The Associated Press. The prince offset the other 91 percent of emissions created by his households - the Highgrove estate in western England, Clarence House in London and Birkhall in Scotland - by investing $60,000, in an agency that promotes tree planting and sustainable energy projects, meaning that his royal lifestyle is now "carbon-neutral."
Meanwhile, an online poll suggests that most of the err-to-the-throne’s subjects think he’s rather daft on the subject of global warming. The survey of 4,000 people found that 71 percent believe global warming is a natural phenomenon and not caused by carbon emissions, and that 65 percent think that climate scientists’ doomsday scenarios are tommy-rot. The poll was conducted by Pocket Issue (a British firm that publishes three "Cliff’s Notes"-type briefs: "The Energy Crisis," "Global Warming" and "Middle East Conflict").
Alarmed that the Orwellian brainwashing techniques used by the BBC and other mass media are inexplicably ineffective, Pocket Issue publisher Emma Hardcastle says, "[T]he poll highlights the need for government and influential bodies to concentrate on getting the public to understand the facts about global warming and ‘why’ rather than ‘how’ they should reduce their carbon footprint."
[Editorial Note: Not only trees spew methane into the atmosphere, but earthworms living in the soil surrounding their roots produce greenhouse gases 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to a German study of commercial composting of organic waste (the "green" alternative to landfills). Further, the very concept of offsetting one’s carbon footprint is bogus. Buying carbon offsets has become the secular equivalent of buying indulgences – and neither purchase will turn a sinner into a saint.]
They have no idea what's going on with the earth, but think their actions will save the planet from global warming.
Good grief!
Prince Charles is Al Gore with a title.
Who knew the Brits had such a good handle on things. Hopefully this will become the trend here, as well.
Consensus is all the Global Warming types have going for them. They have no evidence. They have no physical mechanism they can point to. If 70% of the people say they are full of BS, they are, by their own definition, full of BS.
Prince Charlie is lucky he dowsn't live in North Carolina, USA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849048/posts
Yup.
Keep in mind it is an online survey - not scientific.
But it does suggest that a majority (if not as high as 71 percent) does think this is all a bunch of hooey. I bet if a similar survey were done in the US (a randomized scientific poll, with margins of error and everything) you’d find the same result. Sometimes collective commonsense is impervious to political correctness.
We all know how and where “Prince” Charles wants to spend the rest of his life.
The whole Monarchy is a waste of energy.
Farting earthworms?
Jeeezzzzee!! we rally are doomed!
Diaz praises these people for their lifestyle and comments that we've grown too soft and dependent on all our things (that use power)
I don't get why people don't shove it in her face everyday that she talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.
I don’t know about birds and insects, but every other animal on the planet farts - as do humans. With all that farting going on at ozone level - not to mention solar activity warming the outer reaches of our atmosphere - no amount of carbon offsetting can offset this. I’d like to buy stock in a carbon offsetting company though. With all these suckers, I’d be rich.
Tommy-rot, indeed. LOL.
Why doesn’t she move to one of those places. Would be like Paris Hilton in jail - wouldn’t last three days. (And speaking of which, Paris spent nearly a week of the three in the more comfortable surroundings of the prison infirmary and the other two in a cell she did not have to share with a farting and snoring prisoner. Yes, she did get special treatment, I don’t care what anyone says.)
Great business to be in. A lot of rich people are buying into that nonsense. BTW, unfortunately I don't believe that on-line poll has an merit.
Hear, hear!
Other results include:
19 percent think that they are balderdash.
9 percent described them as "bunkum".
4 percent used "folderol" as their adjective.
2 percent used "poppycock".
1 percent referred to them as "twaddle".
One person referred to them as "inconvenient truths", but he was ushered back inside the Royal Academy of Pompous Scientists.
There's no cooking oil left for the peasants? Let them use dog piss. - Charles Antoinette.
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