Prince Charles Flew 16,000 Miles In Just 11 Days Using Three Private Jets And One Helicopter Before Proudly Posing With Greta Thunberg In Davos.
Prince Charles was last night facing embarrassment after taking a series of private jet flights while lecturing world leaders about climate change.
But the MoS can reveal that in the 11 days before his high-profile appearance, Charles took three flights on private jets for official Government business and one on a helicopter.
After his speech last Wednesday, during which he urged world leaders to take ‘bold and imaginative action’ on the environment, he took a fourth jet to Israel for an official trip.
If the elites take climate change seriously, then they should be setting a good example for the hoi polloi, perhaps, say, by buying their $11 million mansion somewhere inland, rather than on the ocean front on Martha's Vineyard.
@Nimbus The royals and such people are special cases, due to security issues surrounding them. And the level of the public explosure meaning their time does have a greater value. Attempts were made to discredit Al Gore in a similar way by suggesting he had a lot of lights on at home and had a large power bill. The question is, what did he do to offest his power bill by investing in carbon credits and what was he doing with his time to save the planet. Greta has been canny in being very careful not to use planes to travel and dodged that criticism.
@Thinkerbell Transparent nonsense really doesn’t need a rebuttal. Omg rich people buying oceanfront property that will be totally unaffected by the 1-3ft expected sea level rise by the end of the century. How short-sighted of them.
@Nimbus I think Ms. Pelosi once had issues with "carbon footprints", granted, back in '09-anything really change since then re: her foot print concerns? http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/nancy_pelosis_giant_carbon_footprint.pdf
@jackjjackson The speaker using USAF planes is normal policy for many reasons, including security.
And more importantly, the policy these people set is massively, dramatically more impactful than any of their personal numbers.
It feeds the monstrously retarded narrative that you can’t acknowledge the reality of climate change or its impact unless you live as a monk.
Elon Musk is doing more to put a dent into our greenhouse gas emissions than a million off-the-grid hippies, and this would still be the case if he took a private helicopter everywhere, by himself.
That’s why the President specifically honored Mr Musk over the weekend. There are no laws about who flies how. Perhaps a custom at most. Customs are constantly subject to change as society evolves. @QuixoticSoul
@jackjjackson The president thinks global warming is a hoax, he’s monumentally retarded anyway. He also seems to think an American invented the wheel 🤔
Individual impact is tiny anyhow. In all of these things, industrial trends and policy absolutely dominates.
The climate improvements is the US basically are a grains of sand compared to the unrestricted. emissions from Asia and subAsia. The President’s point was that inventors throughout history most recently Musk should be protected and encouraged. The history of the world is better for it. , @QuixoticSoul
@jackjjackson No they aren’t, we are still disproportionate contributors, not to mention our vastly outsized cumulative impact. But more importantly, we are undermining efforts at any sort of structural changes - starting with the bizarre lack of scientific literacy among our senior leadership.
Musk is not an inventor. He’s an entrepreneur. He shepherds inventors, an important faculty many lack.
Transparent nonsense really doesn’t need a rebuttal. Omg rich people buying oceanfront property that will be totally unaffected by the 1-3ft expected sea level rise by the end of the century. How short-sighted of them.
Oh, only 1-3 feet by 2100...? Tell Greta and that guy in Seychelles to quit worrying. The Obamas' mansion is safe, "totally unaffected", um... unless of course one of those super climate-change-hurricanes strikes Martha's Vineyard. 😨
@Thinkerbell The worst-case scenario from IPCC is 60-110cm rise by 2100. Martha’s Vineyard will be just fine, people who buy those properties can afford to insure them against storm damage - and most of the buyers are only looking at 20-30 years left on this planet anyhow.
