http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2242/While_Washington_SleptThe Queen of England is afraid. International C.E.O.'s are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear.
Ten months before Hurricane Katrina left much of New Orleans underwater, Queen Elizabeth II had a private conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair about George W. Bush. The Queen’s tradition of meeting once a week with Britain’s elected head of government to discuss matters of state—usually on Tuesday evenings in Buckingham Palace and always alone, to ensure maximum confidentiality—goes back to 1952, the year she ascended the throne. In all that time, the contents of those chats rarely if ever leaked.
So it was extraordinary when London’s Observer reported, on October 31, 2004, that the Queen had “made a rare intervention in world politics” by telling Blair of “her grave concerns over the White House’s stance on global warming.” The Observer did not name its sources, but one of them subsequently spoke to Vanity Fair.
“The Queen first of all made it clear that Buckingham Palace would be happy to help raise awareness about the climate problem,” says the source, a high-level environmental expert who was briefed about the conversation. ”
definitely concerned about the American position and hoped the prime minister could help change .”
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The Queen, says King, “got it” on climate change, and she wasn’t alone. “Everyone in this country, from the political parties to the scientific establishment, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to our oil companies and the larger business community, has come to a popular consensus about climate change—a sense of alarm and a conviction that action is needed now, not in the future,” says Tony Juniper, executive director of the British arm of the environmental group Friends of the Earth.
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thank you Queen