Saturday, March 3, 2012

UK's Prince Charles blasts climate-change skeptics

BRUSSELS (AP) — Prince Charles lashed out Wednesday at climate change skeptics, saying they are playing "a reckless game of roulette" with the planet's future.

Skeptics are having a "corrosive effect" on public opinion, the British heir to the throne added.

"Their suggestion, that hundreds of scientists around the world ... are somehow unconsciously biased, creates the implication that many of us are secretly conspiring to undermine and deliberately destroy the entire market-based capitalist system," he said.

Many doubters — particularly in the United States — have dismissed scientific evidence supporting warming of the earth due to human activity, arguing that the large …

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