Prince Charles Sparks Controversy With Climate Speech As Tour Begins

The Prince of Wales yesterday described climate change as the gravest challenge facing man - and became embroiled in a row with America about the urgency of tackling it.

In an interview Prince Charles, who starts an eight-day visit to the US next week, called for world leaders to treat climate change with "a far greater degree of priority" than they were at present. He told Radio 4's Today programme: "I don't want my grandchildren, if I'm still alive by then, to say why didn't you do something about it when you could have done."

Prince Charles was backed by Sir David King, the Government's chief scientist, but a senior US official later responded by saying that the Bush administration did not believe that climate change was the most important issue facing mankind.

"We believe there are a number of important issues, and we have to deal with all of them. We can't just pick one and drop everything else," said Vice-Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere.

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and understands priorities.
No comparison between effects of global warming, worldwide mercury pollution, increased droughts and desertification; declines of oceans,fisheries,coral reefs,sea grass, etc.; melting ice caps and sea level rise, etc.
to terrorism- which is clearly a trivial pursuit in comparison- pursued for political reasons, not because of real priorities; and the war on terror is a scam, not dealing with the real underlying causes or bringing the world together to deal with the roots of hunger, ethnic and religious descrimination, etc. that are the real problem.