Prince Charles: Climate change is alarming

"The facts are plain"

7 March 2008

Prince Charles has criticised climate change sceptics who say that the global temperature rise has been invented as "sheer madness." The Prince has also raised the possibility of setting up a network of environmental campaigners from the business world so ideas and expertise could be shared.

He said the facts were "plain" that drastic action needed to be taken in the face of "urgent wake up calls". Speaking at a reception in Trinidad and Tobago which included the country's president and prime minister, he said that a global effort was needed to tackle the problems. More >>>

Caribbean governments must prepare for global warming

The Caribbean Climate Change Centre fells regional governments they must prepare for global warming - February 28, 2008

THE CARIBBEAN Community Climate Change Centre (CCCC), the regional body with oversight authority for climate change, headquartered in Guyana, is issuing a stern warning to governments across the region to move swiftly to put measures in place to deal with the increasing risks posed by global warming.

Examining the impact and implications of climate change for the Caribbean and coastal states at a workshop being held in Barbados, hosted jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, Dr Ulric Trotz, science adviser to the CCCC, said the impact of climate change and its 'knock-on effects' are being felt here and now.

False perceptions

"We (the Caribbean) are plotting our own destruction on false perceptions. The natural variability of climatic change is being compressed into shorter periods of time as a result of global warming, and we have begun to see those changes," Trotz told senior journalists.
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