Prince Charles - enviro-loon

Royal Tree Hugger Prince Charles doesn't miss an opportunity to wade into issues about which he knows little, and climate change is one of them.

"But we take our eye off the 'climate crunch' at our peril," he said in a speech at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

"While we hope and pray that the underlying strengths of the global economy will once again enable it to bounce back, the effects of climate change will be far from temporary and will, indeed, be irreversible," he said.

So that's irreversible in the sense that countless other climate changes that have taken place over millions of years of earth's history are "irreversible"?

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