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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Renowned nature film producer Sir David Attenborough is worried media coverage of Chinese Coronavirus is distracting attention away from the real problem.
Sir David Attenborough: ‘Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages’
The broadcaster and naturalist, who turned 94 in May, said the outbreak has made the issue feel as if it is in ‘the distant future’
ByTelegraph Reporters 25 May 2020 • 12:01am
Sir David Attenborough has said the coronavirus pandemic has swept the problem of climate change from the front pages.
The broadcaster and naturalist, who celebrated his 94th birthday in May, said the outbreak has made the issue feel as if it is in “the distant future”.
Appearing on the So Hot Right Now podcast, Sir David suggested the virus could make the world’s nations see “survival depends on co-operation”.
He said: “The trouble is that right now the climate issue is also seen as being rather in the distant future because we’ve got the virus to think about.
“And so what are the papers full of? The virus. Quite right, that’s what I want to know about, too.
“But we have to make sure that this issue, which was coming to the boil with the next COP meeting in Glasgow, has suddenly been swept off the front pages. And we’ve got to get it back there.”
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Last year Attenborough got into hot water over a false claim that climate change was causing walruses to commit suicide by leaping over cliffs.
Nobody suggests Attenborough’s team caused the deaths of the walruses, but comparisons were made between Attenborough’s effort and the notorious Disney Lemming suicide myth.
The next COP conference will almost certainly be a washout, and efforts to turn Coronavirus recovery into a green money grab are faltering, but climate activists are not about to abandon their efforts to reassert control.
If a so called ’emergency’ gets knocked off the front pages then it’s not an emergency. The reporting of an emergency is not determined by a consensus but solely because emergencies tend to be in your face and inescapable. In addition, reporting tends to come after or during an emergency and not the other way round. While an emergency is happening those on the receiving end will be very pre-oocupied, invariably trying to avoid dying or avoid property destruction.
Imagining an emergency, unless carried out by someone who knows a thing or two, is not much different to script writing for disaster movies. I suppose that’s why Al Gore won an Oscar and a Grammy.
There are weather emergencies such as tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves and flooding, but I’ve no idea what a climate emergency is.
It totally agree with your comments. Real problems are in your face.
We were living in a golden age. The Age of Climate Change was when we were rich and our economies worked.
30% of the population have lost their jobs and many of those jobs are gone or will be gone.
A third of the businesses in Italy are not going to open. A fine dining restaurant cannot survive with maximum 50% seating. A fine dining and in fact most restaurants, thrive/make money because they have 100% full seating, during peak hours, weekends, and during peak seasons.
Airlines lease their expensive planes. The expensive planes have no value until there are passengers to travel from country to country in them. Same problem, hotels, cruise ships, and so on.
A climate emergency was the Younger Dryas abrupt climate change, at 13,900 BP which is cooling from interglacial warm to glacial cold, with 70% of the cooling occurring in less than a decade (at at time of maximum insolation summer insolation at 65N, thereby disproving Milankovitch’s theory). and the cooling lasted for 1200 years.
Fascinating William. Could you give me (and readers) a reference for this please.
How certain are you about the timing?
The fact that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been completely unaffected by the mass and sudden Global lockdowns and haven’t even registered as background noise against the natural cycles, Finally proves that we cannot control CO2 levels as mans portion is so insignificant anyway against nature’s….
I really don’t know why this site isn’t making more of this, as it’s a massive blow for the AGW advocates who have made all sorts of claims about CO2 levels in the past, but Covids unique lockdown have given us chance to analyze mans portion and is minute
I can stomach the shows Sir David Senile-alot hosts, as long as I mute it.
I hadn’t thought of that, how perfectly sensible. Maybe I can go back to enjoying the visual feast after all!
Good…..it is always wise to focus on REAL dangers than false ones.
Well, we have a large number of crash-test dummies (the ones not wearing masks and not socially distancing themselves in public) mingling socially again, so this will give us an idea of just how infectious the Wuhan virus is. Let’s hope it proves to be a problem that can be corraled quickly. We ought to know soon.
My State’s number of infections has increased, but our governor said last week we should expect an uptick as testing here is going to increase by 50 percent over the next few weeks. I think that might be the case in other States that are reporting increased infections in the last few days.
We have an interesting experiment going on right now.
Destroying China’s stranglehold on supply chains will go a long way in containing China’s blatant disregard for creating massive environmental catastrophies in their own country but also in Africa where their quest for dominance reminds me of how the Soviet Union destroyed the environment of their Eastern European satellite nations!
Attenborough used to host some great programs… Terrific photography, fascinating animals and information. Loved the series with disguised robot cameras including a lifelike camera disguised as a female Adelaide penguin, which got its head knocked off by the returning mate of a male penguin who started getting a bit too cummy with the robot. The film of the newly hatched marine iguana sprinting through the racer snake predator obstacle course on one of the Galapagos islands (available on YouTube) is one of the best action scenes in any movie period.
Sad that none of his newer shows are watchable since he joined the Doomsday Cult. Should have retired about 10 years ago to his garden.
Notorious Fake Nature Film Producer Sir David Attenborough has noticed that the real crisis of Covid-19 has pushed the fake ‘Climate Change’ crisis out of contention on the World Stage. He could take time now to consider the evidence and reassess ‘Climate Change’.
Funny how a real emergency displaces a fake emergency.
I can remember back before Madonna was a virgin.
The problem is that both amount to bureaucratic bungling. One is imaginary and has been turned into a political nightmare and the other is real and has been turned into an economic nightmare. Cand we call that neo-socialism? We should not forget that a decade after the Spanish flu the world entered into the Great Depression and that WWII started a decade later. Are we heading toward WWIII or have we learned from the past?
If human beings had ever at any point in time learned anything from past mistakes then that time is long gone.
The respect shown to the wisdom of age has gone. Young people rarely give those with a wealth of experience the time of day. Once they might have said, “what would you have done”? Now it’s likely to be “what would you know?”
I know a Attenborough is just another moronic celebrity but surely even he remembers the hundred months has passed and nothing has happened so it was just another scientific theory like flat earth. Perhaps he should look at the map in this link and explain how fossil fuel use miraculously gets heat everywhere except where it is actually used. What is even more amazing it does so with no heat rise in between.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6454607/Collapse-civilisations-horizon-without-climate-action-Attenborough.html
Well D, you only have to look at the picture of the globe with all the red at the top of the picture (implying the hot spots) to work out that hot air rises of course! /sarc
Ought not the title of this article read “Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change and David Attenborough off the front pages”?
Every cloud has a silver lining….
Let’s see a show of hands. How many are more concerned about their climate agenda message over a pandemic? Now be honest David and Charles.