Warming Earth Down to Its 'Last Chance': Charles

Prince Charles warned yesterday that the world's unwillingness to take action on climate change means disaster is looming, the Daily Telegraph reports. The prince, addressing the Nobel Laureates Symposium, said that although a "mercifully small—if vociferous—number" of people still reject the science of climate change, a far greater number "fail to recognize the real urgency of the situation."

"It seems to me that in many ways we already have some of the answers to hand," the prince said. "We know about energy efficiency, renewable energy, and how to reduce deforestation, to name but a few, but we seem strangely reluctant to apply them. I fear that this hesitation will have catastrophic consequences." (More global warming stories.)