Charles, there's a reason you're not king

And the reason is that your mum isn't a batbelfry like you are.

Prince Charles urged the world Tuesday to fight climate change, saying that while the global credit crunch will be temporary, the effects of the "climate crunch" were irreversible. ...

"Given the current turbulence in the international financial system and the immediate and damaging effect it is having on the whole world, the credit crunch is rightly a preoccupation of vast significance and importance," Charles said.

"But we take our eye off the 'climate crunch' at our peril," he said in a speech at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. ...

"The scale of the challenge is clear, nothing less than an urgent, full-scale transformation to a low-carbon society is needed," he said.

So don't get too exercised about the looming worldwide recession, folks, because Charles wants to plunge the worldwide economies into the abyss by urgent transformation into a "low-carbon" society.

Meanwhile:

A nor'easter into Wednesday will continue to slam the Northeast with snow, rain and wind, causing more headaches for Major League Baseball. ...

Expert Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson says, "This is a big storm by October standards." More a foot of snow will fall in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania and the Adirondacks in upstate New York.

And also meanwhile:

Near-record cold, and mountain snow

Snow is accumulating this afternoon in the North Carolina mountains, and the rest of the Carolinas is shivering in the first cold outbreak of the season.

Temperatures that are more than 15 degrees below normal for this time of year, combined with strong northwest winds, are making today uncomfortably chilly in the Charlotte metro region.

I blame global warming and the "Charles effect."