The Prince formerly known as Artist has Spoken

I always thought there was something fishy, dare I say Frenchy, about Prince Charles. First there was the nose, which I unfortunately share. Why I was stuck with a French nose and small English feet I'll never know. Then there was the hot wife he had. We don't even need to go there.

Now there's this, which seals the deal in my book. He's French through and through:

Prince: Global effort needed to counter climate change

Sheer madness.

That's how Prince Charles described skeptics who view calls for rapid action to counter climate change as overstated or completely invented.

"Unfathomably however, there still seem to be some climbing skeptics, those who view the case of rapid action to counter climate change is overstated or indeed completely invented," he added.

"If I may speak plainly among friends, this is sheer madness. The scientific facts are as plain as they are alarming. Worryingly in the last few months we have learnt that the North Polar ice cap is melting so fast that some scientists are predicting that in seven years it will completely disappear in summer."

Puhlease. Count me as a mad "climbing skeptic." Better to be able to grow more crops because of warming than fewer because of permafrost. Commodities are already at all time highs. Imagine how much they'll be when we can't till the soil.