It could have been worse. King Charles could have ascended to his desert dais and pronounced that we had just 96 months to avert “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse”. But that was the Right Charlie back in 2009, giving us the benefit of his sandwich-board scientific wisdom. These days it is all fashionable bad weather and undefined “tipping points”. The man is now King, and at COP28 he threw away his irksome politically-neutral constitutional role, wrapped himself in Guardianista pseudoscience, and punched down hard on the poor who will be forced to pay for the collectivist madness that is the Net Zero project.
King Charles is no friend of general humanity. Speaking at COP28, he said: “The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.” As with many know-your-place elitists, he appears to abhor the impacts that humans have on the planet. He exhibits, sadly on a world stage, a snobbish distain for capitalism – what used to be dismissed in British aristocratic circles as ‘trade’. This capitalist trend over the last 200 years has harnessed the power of natural hydrocarbons to raise billions to a standard of living and health unimaginable to previous generations. In 2009, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and the “age of convenience” was over.
Not for the new British King, it need hardly be observed. He lives a life of pampered indulgence where no expense is spared to ensure his every comfort. On his accession to the throne, he added considerably to his Palace Portfolio. To spread his malevolent Net Zero fantasies, he has a fleet of cars, private planes and even a personal train at his command. He uses these to call for “transformational action” to be taken to save the planet. In his COP28 speech, he called for the restoration of nature, the need for sustainable agriculture, and co-operation between the public and private sectors.
Few calls could be more political in tone. The restoration of nature and sustainable agriculture is shorthand for largely meat-free diets and massive reductions in nitrogen fertiliser. The latter, in particular, will lead to worldwide famine. COP28 seems set to announce new food and agriculture restrictions using the tactic of demonising methane, a gas emitted by animals and humans that is barely measurable in the atmosphere due to a very short lifecycle. Whenever the subject of ‘co-operation’ between public and private sectors is raised, there is an immediate dash to count the spoons, since it can only signal a large transfer of cash from productive industries to unproductive and inferior green operations.
At one point in his COP speech, King Charles veered into sandwich-board territory claiming that “we are seeing alarming tipping points being reached”. There was no evidence presented to justify this claim, often made by climate extremists using modelled data. In fact, he didn’t even refer to any actual ‘tipping’ event that has been reached. Many scientists have concluded that bad, or extreme, weather events are no worse than in the immediate past. Many categories of natural disasters such as floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity “show no clear positive trend of extreme events”, note a group of four Italian scientists. They argue that the data shows there is no “climate emergency”.
None of these facts seem to matter to a political King, who, like a stuck Guardian record, keeps on pressing on with made-up emotional stories of impending climate Armageddon. At one point he referred to repeated cyclones battering vulnerable islands, something that cyclones have always done.
The King can always cherry-pick individual storms but there is plenty of evidence to show that hurricane and cyclone frequency, along with intensity, has changed little over the recent historical record, as the above graph shows.
Wildfires are a bit of a dud when it comes to whipping up climate hysteria, not least because the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that most conflagrations are started by humans. “Human activities have become the dominant driver,” it observes. But when there is political Net Zero work to be done, the King is only too happy to overlook the evidence. In common with many other countries this year, Canada experienced its worst wildfires for a century, he said.
Despite all the human involvement, the above graph shows the gradual decline of global emissions from wildfires over recent decades. In fact, wildfires are almost impossible to pin on any changes on climate since so many other factors, such as arson and land management, are in play.
Net Zero is rapidly becoming the dominant political issue of the age. Its obvious collectivist nature gathers support from mostly sectional interests in society. It has no significant grassroots support, since it aims to restrict human lifestyles and wealth on a scale never attempted before in history. It is awash with junk science, fake statistics and computer models.
The late Queen, in her infinite wisdom, never went anywhere near it.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
Stop Press: David Cameron at COP28 has said the U.K. will pay £60 million in climate reparations to developing countries. The Epoch Times has more.
Pure BS. As king, he is supposed to stay out of politics.
Same bloke that wants to be reincarnated as a tampon.
He’s already pretty close to being one !
More a “sanitary napkin” though.
Every asshole should have some form of covering I reckon.
But some much more than others.
Do they make King-size diapers?
Defender of the Faith repudiates Genesis 1:28
Not to mention Genesis 1:31 – And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
(Except CO2, of course, and fossil fuels.)
The old man in the Vatican clearly has no faith in the ‘Giver of all good gifts’ either. ‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’ Not on recent evidence.
As a clown, he’s doing a great job.
You mean climate religion?
Import more squirrels for outside KC’s windows. Make sure the population of squirrels stays high. That should keep the king busy day to day.
Some large fox squirrels would be nice.
The Queen will be turning in her grave. Charlie boy has broken the first rule of modern British Monarchy – do not be political. The fact that he obviously believes that this is “science” not “politics” just shows what an absolute fool this man is. No wonder his idiot son in the US is such a dickhead, it is clearly inherited. I suppose inbreeding has to show up sooner or later.
And in case anyone is wondering p, I am a Scottish born Australian, bought up to respect our Monarchy, but this is an idiot that deserves no respect.
Our King Biden isn’t very smart either. And he should’ve stayed out of politics too.
Better to the thought of as a fool..
… than to open your mouth and prove it !
ie, ST*U, you idiotic clown king !
The ginger dickhead in America sure ain’t Charlie’s son.
Although he is a Charlie.
Prince Charles was denied entry into the Wharton Business School MBA program due to being judged as “unable to complete the curriculum”. Sort of code for not too smart. To top it off he did not learn good manners from his mother, Queen Elizabeth. Prince Charles fell off his polo horse many times and then was kicked in the arm which broke it. Then he traded Diana for Camila. Now he is the King. Of course he says stupid things.
“I am a Scottish born Australian,”
Me too ! 🙂
I’m told by Canadian contacts that there has been a drop-off in interest by recent immigrants there to become Canadian citizens, not least due to the requirement to now swear allegiance to King Charles, instead of Queen Elizabeth.
Obviously Canada is importing a more clued-up type of immigrant than resides in the UK.
I doubt it – thanks to the open borders policy we (don’t) have there is no requirement for these military-age muslims from extremist states to swear allegiance to anyone, least of all Chucklehead Charlie.
This is why we hoped that Queen Elizabeth would outlive Charles. The queen was sensible and knew her role. Apart from Princess Anne, the rest of the Royal Family are as stupid as Charles.
Mind you, she went woke over covid. But no, not nearly as much of a disaster as Charlie boy.
And some are downright vile. Prince Andrew is the vile one. Princess Anne filled in as Princess Royal for Queen Elizabeth admirably for several years. She would have been a vast improvement over Charles who is perhaps as silly as his ancestor Charles !.
And it should be noted that the youngest son Edward Duke of Edinburgh is just fine,very sensible, and actually went out and got a career and job rather than just live off his income granted by Parliament.
G’Day cgh,
“…as silly as his ancestor Charles!”
Charles I, was beheaded.
Charles II, titular head of the Church of England, on his death bed called for a Catholic priest.
Charles III, I really think the name is jinxed…..
Charles I and II were both traitors. The First got what he deserved.
I used to know all the British kings and queens from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, but those brain cells are mostly dead. I also knew all of my U.S. Presidents, but those brain cells are mostly dead too. And I once knew all the states and their capitols, but, alas, those brain cells are again mostly dead. I do remember a mnemonic given to me by a fellow student about the Magna Carta: they signed the document and then sat down to lunch fifteen minutes later–1215. Of course, I don’t think King John was in a “lunchy” mood.
G’Day Jim.
“…from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II.”
History is fun. Something I tripped over a couple of years ago. Francis Drake was the first English sea captain to circumnavigate the world. He was knighted by Elizabeth I. Francis Chichester was the first Englishman to circumnavigate single-handed. He was knighted by Elizabeth II. The same sword was used in both ceremonies.
Interesting!
I was watching a series on Queen Victoria a while back. There was an insurrection that demanded the usual English punishment for treason: hanging, drawing, and quartering. She intervene and didn’t allow the horrible punishment. The US Constitution doesn’t allow such punishments for treason or any crime. It seems that treason is okay in the US.
G’Day Jim,
“The US Constitution doesn’t allow…”
Nor did the English “Bill of Rights” from 1689.
[10] That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;
The English and US versions of a “Bill of Rights” are very similar. The Founding fathers did change a few things. In the English version:
[7] That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;
In the US version the final four words for that Right are “…shall not be infringed.”
Local: 2335 hrs. Back tomorrow…..
“Nor did the English “Bill of Rights” from 1689.”
So the show was wrong, as Queen Victoria lived after the 1600s.
G’Day Jim
“So the show was wrong…”
It may well have happened, or was just something a script writer thought would be dramatic. Hard to say.
A large part of English Common Law carried over into the United States. My main interests have been birthright citizenship, abortion, bearing arms, and jury nullification.
Charlie Boy is a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ person. If he is correct, he won’t be able to talk to his plants. They will all be dying from CO2 starvation. Does anyone know how he heats his many homes? I suspect he will get a few surprises this winter as energy-driven appliances demand exceeds supply.
Quite a bit more of the world doesn’t belong to Charles than the bit that doesn’t belong to me.
And so who told this pathetic excuse for a human being that he has the right to speak for anyone other than himself? His Mother was a very decent and dedicated human being who earned the respect of Her subjects but Charles is not even close to being respected and knows nothing about climate science which is, of course, why he is at COP28.
Pity that the French Reovultion was not more widespread.
Having lived in rural France for nearly ten years I can tell you that those living in the country are fascinated by the British Royal Family. When asked why they can’t explain it.
Lol
Few would dare call Charlie Boy a mental heavyweight, more a mediocre mind obsessed with the idea of “saving the planet” and being recognised as the one responsible for it.
Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s previous monarch, was loved and respected, while her son Charlie Boy is the opposite and widely mocked for his failure to understand the most important lesson of being a successful modern day monarch: You are there to be seen, not heard – no one cares about your opinions.
Unfortunately the heir is just as green as his father. Flying around the world presenting Green Shot prizes.
Unfair to Prince Philip. He was an early supporter of practical steps to protect endangered species and threatened habitats around the world. That did not include endorsing the ‘adopt a tiger and get a cuddly toy’ brigade, nor the oil-clad JSO terrorists.
Agreed entirely, QV. Prince Phillip was a war veteran, the real kind who was actually in a pitched battle and being shot at (Battle of Matapan, signal and lighting commander HMS Valiant.)
Did you misspell Green Snot prizes?
‘Mediocre mind’? Oh you are so kind.
He was a dunce at school. Had to have dedicated extra tuition to make it through.
Queen Elizabeth II was my Monarch.
Charlie is not my king.
Time for a British Revolution.
Qu’il mangent de la brioche !
Off with his head.
Charlie boy said what he was told to say.
He is a bear of very little brain, and he doesn’t understand Big Numbers.
As for a life of pampered luxury – no, that would be Meghan Markle.
Charles lives quite an austere life.
Your definition of austere rather clashes with mine.
He has his personal staff iron his shoelaces FFS!
And to put the toothpaste on the brush…
Is this true?
It’s the same person that turns on the faucet.
And don’t forget his cherished toilet seat!
He should have stayed on it, instead of taking his s**t to COP28
As a citizen of the UK, may I say, oh dear, someone else attacking our monarchy.
p.s. Keep up the good work!
I can relate, but on the other hand, Ian, please do feel free to have at our Dementia Joe!
Now known as King Charles the Stupid…
…and Charles the Turd.
Regards,
Bob
Oh thaht was just me Irish brogue! I said T H I R D – turd.
Charles the Halfwit
Which half would that be?
Well, his brain is in two halves.
In the left half, nothing is right
And in the right half, there’s nothing left.
The half just below his belt buckle.
Chuckie The K
Right up there with Ethelred the Unready
Sorry, it’s Ethelred the ‘unraed’ or ill-advised. A good fit for Chucklehead Charlie but not good for the rest of us here in the UK. What’s he going to do next, start refusing to sign laws that don’t agree with his woke principles?
28th gg father.
He was ready enuf to do what was important to me.
Idiocracy on both sides of the pond.
A King Charles Spaniel is brighter than Charlie Boy who is a total hypocrite
King ‘Charles the Vegan’? I doubt it.
When he was Price Chuckles he decided to tour the UK to promote the Climate Change scare. So to look more Green he decided instead of using either his gas guzzling Aston Martin’s or the Royal Jet Aircraft he would instead take the Train. Only problem the Train was his own, 5 carriages solely for himself and his servants with a diesel loco on the front even when running on electrified lines.
But, but, … it is a very nice colour !! a burgundy known as Royal Claret.
The train journeys made by the Royal Family during the year of the Golden Jubilee in 2002 cost £872,000 of taxpayer money.
In June 2022, royal accounts revealed that the late Queen had spent £100,000 of taxpayer money on the train despite using it only three times.
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6 carriages + 2 locos
Nice photo! For the hobbyists among us, is the train available in HO guage?
Available in OO scale – try here:- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314963861891?hash=item49554f2183:g:dHwAAOSwEXxlVK
And the loco here:- https://uk.hornby.com/products/railroad-plus-db-class-67-bo-bo-67005-queens-messenger-era-10-r30323
Looks like 7 + 2 to me…
Yes you are correct …
One for each day of the week ???
KCIII, a right royal fart! So the CO2 mantra, is losing its influence, so let’s switch to methane.
Kerry, another charlatan, wants to triple nuclear
He has no idea what that implies
Excerpt from
BATTERIES IN NEW ENGLAND?
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/batteries-in-new-england
Tripling Nuclear? During COP28 in opulent Dubai, Kerry called for the world to triple CO2-free nuclear, from 370,200 MW to about 1,200,000 MW, by 2050.
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-triple-nuclear-power-cop28.html
Based on past experience in the US and EU, it takes at least 10 years to commission nuclear plants
That means, plants with about 39 reactors must be started each year, for 16 years (2024 to 2040), to fill the pipeline, to commission the final ones by 2050, in addition to those already in the pipeline.
Nuclear would be 11% of total generation in 2050, certainly far from a big deal
That would require a major increase in infrastructures and educating and training of personnel.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/electricity-sources-by-fuel-in-2022/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%2029%2C165.2%20terawatt%20hours,2.3%25%20from%20the%20previous%20year.
Existing Nuclear, MW, 2022
370200
Proposed tripling
3
Tripled Nuxlear, MW, 2050
1110600
New Nuclear, MW
740400
MW/reactor
1200
Reactors
617
New Reactors, rounded
620
Reactors/sire
2
Sites
310
New nuclear production, MWh, 2050
5841311760
Conversion factor
1000000
%
New nuclear production, TWh, 2050
5841
11
World total production, TWh, 2050
53000
Meanwhile, while Royalty and the Pope ramble on about how we’re all going to burn up from climate change. Bavaria gets slammed with the 10 year snow storm.
Unfortunately, too many people see high office as evidence that the incumbent is the smartest person in the room. We see this applied to politicians too. The fawning in the UK media yesterday was nauseating, all were praising Chuck’s “insight” and “wisdom”. Call me a cynic, but I couldn’t see past the result of centuries of inbreeding and the resultant destruction of intellect.
“ is the smartest person in the room. “
In a room full of “climate scientists™“..
.. he may well be. ! 🙂
The Italian regnal name for our Charlie, seems very appropriate. Il Tamponi. Not sure if that should be defined as ‘the first’ but hey lets not get too fixated on such details.
His desire to occupy dark spaces before being dumped in the trash sort of sums up his standing in real society.
We should also remember he likes talking to trees? We are not told which tree is his favourite? My bet is it is the Ash. The final ceremonial sentence of existence uttered, dust to dust, ashes to ashes, probably inspired him to think those Ashes talk to each other so why not….
He is just not very bright.
“His desire to occupy dark spaces before being dumped in the trash sort of sums up his standing in real society.”
We’re getting a lot of mileage out of those ‘beaver’ articles by Kip.
The Windsors are not an advertisement for inbreeding.
Ha ha, they’re committing 60 million quid? That’s enough, in 2023 dollars, to help about 60 people!
Kamala Harris said yesterday the U.S. was contributing three billion dollars to the climate reparations fund.
I doubt that is going to be enough to satisfy the activists.
. . . which just goes to show how much elevated King Charles’ IQ is above that of US VP Harris.
Some may have thought the race would be touch-‘n-go, but Kamala touched bottom first.
Who’s bottom did she touch ??
“Show me on the doll where the bad lady touched you.”
She couldn’t even tell you how many zeroes are in 3 billion.
one?
nope … thats a letter not a zero.
King Charles III is attempting a revival of King Edward VII’s Entente Cordiale, speaking perfect French at the Paris Senate.
Looks like Charles is running foreign policy, as did Edward.
And by 1914 the result was for all to see.
Have Macron and Sunak any idea of what is going on?
Le rage d’espérer franco-britannique ? Mais non, c’est une Entente Cordialle!
Looks like Berlin voters were simply not interested in Royalty, this time around,
Last time Kanzler Wilhelm was King Edward VII’s cousin as was Russia’s Czar Nicolas.- result WWI.
So you think Charles is smart enough to direct a conspiracy?
Charles isn’t smart enough to direct a train and there are only 2 directions.
It is beyond my comprehension why anyone listens to anything a constitutional monarch says. The Saudi king, sure, he has power. But Charley III? Why pay attention to anything he says? Architecture, politics, science? No.
“I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival”, Prince (now King) Charles speech at a Reception for Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, July 11, 2019
[note: July 11, 2019 + 18 months = mid-January 2021, so we passed that point-of-no-return nearly 3 years ago].
Substitute “infirmly” for the third word in the above quote and it truthfully becomes something Charles could have stated in his COP 28 speech.
Why doesn’t the “Press” press him on what he is personally doing to avoid the tipping points? Obviously he is doing little or nothing…his speech could have been a video and saved tonnes of CO2….he could live in a nice apartment and shut down the mansions….do it or shut up!
Not just shut down the mansions… I’d much prefer watching a mansion or two be blown up than the destruction of perfectly good coal or nuclear plants.
In other news, collectivist Pol Pot killed millions – of his own people. And they loved him for it. At least for a while. For some would-be leaders, total control is appealing. Period.
Pol Pot was a huge fan of Rousseau, who, whether they realize it or not, is the patron saint of all radical environmentalists.
There you go, Rousseau again! Still it probably needs saying – there is a legacy of bad thinking which still needs to be overcome – Rousseau and Malthus among them.
That bad thinking started with Plato. It has a long and dismal history of justifying authoritarians.
Greece was the biggest slave owning society in the world – all city states had great numbers of slaves but in Athens there were more slaves than free men. No wonder there was an increase in art, philosophy and so on, they had slaves to do all of the heavy lifting. And people call it the birthplace of Western Civilisation – which is probably why we’re in this mess today!
The abomination that is slavery was common throughout the world before the 20th century. One could justifiably say that the Greeks at least started the ball rolling toward the Enlightenment, and eventually to the economic liberalization that lead to the Industrial Revolution. The former, of course, damned slavery; the latter, in reality, doomed it.
Thank you! I think the pairing of Plato and Aristotle in primary / secondary education is analogous to that of Locke and Rousseau – a way to get the nose of the collectivist / statist camel under the tent at an early age.
‘There you go, Rousseau again!’
Yep. Full disclosure, I’ve never taken a course in Philosophy, but I do recall from elementary school onward that whenever the subject of the Enlightenment comes up the mantra is always Locke AND Rousseau, as if their ideas are interchangeable parts on an assembly line.
They’re not, and my specific issue with Rousseau, besides all the Noble Savage nonsense, is his collectivist ideal that ‘the general will’ overrides individual rights. While I’m aware that his proponents believe that he was innocuously referring only to the ‘rule of law’ here, there’s been enough ‘bad thinking’ on this, as you say, to conclude that he really did favor an early form of what Marx eventually defined as the dictatorship of the proletariat. It’s no coincidence, then, that political movements based on Rousseau’s ideas turn into bloodbaths.
Not to mention that the creep forced his common law wife to turn his five children over to orphanages…
Net Zero is rapidly becoming the dominant political issue of the age. Its obvious collectivist nature gathers support from mostly sectional interests in society.
That’s what they said about ‘socialism’ when Mr. Lenin and Mr. Trotsky were organizing their murderous mobs to promote a dreamy collectivist heaven. His Majesty is not the organizing equal of Lenin, but we who dumped his predecessors in 1776 might well revive some revolutionary moves to upset the knavish tricks the Netzeristas propose to use, in headg off our use of liberty for self-betterment. Down with His Nibs, and the new Politburo who twitch and twiddle his puppet-strings.
The IPCC can’t find significant change in extreme weather events either. See Willis on his IPCC analysis this site
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Inbreeding. You can see why he was so concerned about the skin color of his grandchild.
It’s unfortunate that generations upon generations of this royal concept have produced someone so infantile intellectually that he sees nothing wrong with perpetuating religious nonsense at the cost of energy security for the masses he claims to represent.
It is long since time to get rid of the royals. And the popes, for that matter. They’re better suited for the presidency of a formerly elite university than any position with real responsibility.
You know of an ‘elite university’?
A truly pompous & clueless idiot. Must be inbreeding.
Like many or most of the bigwigs who fashion themselves as enviro-experts, Charles III’s proclamations are greeted with derision, and as long as people like him are given excessive media coverage, the less credibility the climate change movement will have.
Charles should have stayed in his dustbin instead of distributing rubbish all over the world.
https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/prince-charles-as-student-at-cambridge-university-in-a-news-photo/80752057
Has any other country sent its head of government and head of state to Dubai?
Will King Charles in a fit of repentance for his carbon emissions getting to Dubai, pledge not to return to the UK?
Let them eat cake and shiver.
story tip
Gas network already at maximum capacity as cold snap hits (yahoo.com)
He is an hereditary monarch, not a scientist, not a maths wiz, not a policy leader, and not even someone who was ever gainfully employed. So why are his words worth broadcasting to the world as if they meant anything more than his idle musings on something he knows nothing about?
King Charles is a rather strong argument against monarchy as a form of government.
It’s very clear why Queen Elizabeth II never wanted to abdicate with her woke son waiting in the wings! Unfortunately William doesn’t look much better. I despair….