{"id":2525,"date":"2010-01-27T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:32:45","slug":"hrh-prince-charles-and-his-political-tin-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/hrh-prince-charles-and-his-political-tin-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"HRH Prince Charles and his political tin ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long-standing &mdash; and safe &mdash; practice for members of the royal family to avoid controversy (at least, controversy in topics not actually <em>involving<\/em> members of the royal family). Prince Charles apparently didn&#8217;t get <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100023889\/wtf-prince-of-wales-tells-disgraced-cru-well-done-all-of-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">the memo<\/a> recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is under government investigation for fraud, data manipulation and withholding or destroying scientific data in defiance of freedom of information requests. Many of the disgraced scientists working at the CRU were closely involved in putting together the now ferociously suspect Fourth Assessment Report for the notoriously unreliable Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) headed by the lethally compromised Dr Rajendra Pachauri.<\/p>\n<p>Is this really the best time, you might wonder, for the future King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to praise the CRU for the \u201cquality\u201d of its work and to dismiss the Climategate scandal as a \u201clittle blip\u201d? (Hat tip: Roddy Campbell)<\/p>\n<p>Well the Prince of Wales clearly thinks so or he wouldn\u2019t have paid a visit to Norwich yesterday to deliver a jolly little fillip to the beleaguered scientists. In his sublime wisdom, Prince Charles clearly believes they have done no wrong at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long-standing &mdash; and safe &mdash; practice for members of the royal family to avoid controversy (at least, controversy in topics not actually involving members of the royal family). Prince Charles apparently didn&#8217;t get the memo recently: The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is under government investigation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65,28],"tags":[245,194,240,39,396],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-environment","category-media","tag-climatechange","tag-fraud","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-EJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}