Essay by Eric Worrall
Professor of wildlife ecology Euan Ritchie expressing his dismay that mainstream media doesn’t pay attention to the issues he cares about.
Why did the Queen’s death receive saturation media coverage while the future of the Earth goes largely ignored?
Euan Ritchie
Fri 16 Sep 2022 11.29 AESTJust one day after the Queen’s death, another deeply sobering study related to the dangers of exceeding 1.5C of global warming was published
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I am not here to argue about the merit and contributions of the Queen and the royal family though, nor a long overdue transition to an Australian republic, or the far too often overlooked, disregarded and darker history and confronting issues, including maintenance of power structures and the ongoing damage and ravages of state-sanctioned colonialism. That is not my place nor area of expertise, and I genuinely want to extend my sincere condolences to all who are saddened and suffering, whatever their reason, and whatever cultural background, political and personal persuasion they may have.
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On 9 September, just one day after the Queen’s death, yet another landmark and deeply sobering study related to the dangers of exceeding 1.5C of global warming for triggering multiple climate tipping points was published. Like so many scientific publications and warnings before, this paper makes abundantly clear that collectively our unsustainable existence has us hurtling towards a truly diabolical future. This places human lives and livelihoods at increased risk of severe, prolonged suffering and, at worst, being extinguished.
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But it paled into insignificance and near obscurity relative to the saturation coverage of the Queen’s passing.
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Euan Ritchie is professor in wildlife ecology and conservation at the Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2022/sep/16/why-did-the-queens-death-receive-saturation-media-coverage-while-the-future-of-the-earth-goes-largely-ignored
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The queen’s funeral received more coverage because the queen’s funeral is a real thing.
That, and a funeral is not something that may or may not happen 80 years from now … it’s today.
Monday actual
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Sarc
Rest assured, when the Climate Crisis dies, it’s funeral will garner similar coverage
I think it’ll be more like, “We never said global warming was a dangerous thing!” After all, they literally deny ever squawking about global cooling in the 70’s.
So very true, Mathew.
Or when it does cool so significantly they can’t deny it anymore, they will say they were right all along about CO2 and it’s just as dangerous as before but they got it slightly wrong because it causes cooling, not warming.
The funeral is on Monday, three days time. It has one nice thing – a rest from climate nonsense.
The future of the Earth will continue, while the future of the Queen will not. Climate is also no where close to the importance of the Queen, and the Queen is rarely in my mind.
And there’s a better than 97% consensus that she’s actually dead.
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… Queen Elizabeth’s passing and her funeral were at least real
There is a lot of coverage of the queen’s funeral though. She’s dead. It’s sad.
But that situation hasn’t changed all week.
And he’s right to complain that the climate message – which has nothing new to say either – isn’t also given blanket coverage.
”And he’s right”
No, he’s an idiot.
Simple. One is reality; the other is fiction.
You nailed it, that was my exact first thought on reading the headline. Now if the idiots in charge of whatever would only act that way.
Yep…The Queen didn’t either exist or die in a model
Truly unhinged (YouTube)
“That is not my place nor area of expertise” and neither is climate science. 😉
And yet, strangely, he goes on to pontificate on both subjects; he should either read what he’s written of stfu – people cannot have it both ways, the man is delusional if he thinks he has some automatic right that, when he’s talking, everybody must immediately stop whatever they’re doing and listen to him.
Perfect example of a radicalised militant Marxist, guess where he got his degree?
James Cook University.
And now he’s at Deakin University? Is that any more a real university than James Cook?
There are no real universities in AU anymore.
You misspelled D*ckhead.
His Ph.D is in conservation of the Wallaroo…..seriously…..
The Wallaroo needs a PH.D to save it? Save it from what I ask?
That explains a lot!
… or stfu …
Thank you – I missed that when I read it through. My fat fingers on a phone keypad!
Typical narcissist
Narcissus would be proud.
Yup, he establishes his unbelievable wholeness in the first paragraph. No reason to read further, we all know the narrative.
Because 99% of climate alterations boil immediately down to incorrect, abusive, destructive and wasteful alterations directly to the environment and the only ways to stop them are to tell people they cannot have roads and houses or start killing a LOT of people.
About 24% of the land and 73% of the Ocean have been destroyed and it will take decades and a reduction of about 3 billion people permanently to make any headway.
Not a popular news item. Eight cities in California would have to immediately be slaughtered and collapsed into crushed rubble, for example.
You make a good case, but the Democrats are already ahead of you in dismantling CA cities…
73% of the Ocean Is not even surveyed
And hear I thought that it is 22.7% of the land and 76.7% of the ocean have been destroyed. I will tell you where I got my numbers if you tell me where you got yours.
It has been a while since I have destroyed any oceans (all or part).
In the future I will track what I destroy, so as to allow up to date record keeping.
I peed in the ocean once.
Ok maybe twice.
Well if cow flatulence can warm the atmosphere, perhaps that explains the oceans warming. ( They have warmed up a bit yes??)
Depends on who you ask, I suspect.
Every waking hour we are constantly bombarded by climate disaster propaganda and this utter …. thinks it ain’t enough?
“”Just one day after the Queen’s death, another deeply sobering study related to the dangers of exceeding 1.5C of global warming was published””
Also in The Guardian…
“Why we should forget about the 1.5C global heating target”
Can they form a coherent argument?
No
“utter ….”
Let me recommend the word “twat” for your missing 4 letter word.
They would denigrate the Queen because of “colonialism” but would grant all powers to narcissists and pedophiles in the name of “globalism.”
Globalism is colonialism on steroids.
Nothing is more globalist and colonial than the global warming cult telling poor countries they must stay poor so that rich liberals can pretend to save their beaches, while really just advancing socialism
And this study is the same as the hundreds of other studies on the looming disaster of going over 1.5 C. Or is it 2 C? Yawn….
Like so many scientific publications and warnings before, this paper makes abundantly clear that collectively our unsustainable existence has us hurtling towards a truly diabolical future.
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From a WUWT article earlier this week:
We’ve been warned of climate tipping points before, so much so that they’ve racked up an impressive record of non-performance.
For example. Google search shows well over a hundred, here is just a few of them:
“”our unsustainable existence””
Says it all.
Force feeding poverty via cutting off the energy supply isn’t a solution to arriving at the carrying capacity of the planet. Maybe you think it is, and if that’s so, please enlighten us with your reasons why. Was that a straw man? Sue me!
Obviously you need a /sarc tag to comprehend the point
Got it now?
OK but it made me come up with: “Force feeding poverty via cutting off the energy supply …” which I will find useful down the road.
A thoughtful and considerate professor would surely ask themselves when asking this question is: why are more people concerned/worried/thoughtful about the late queen rather than climate change?
Perhaps they feel for the queen but do not feel/worry/unconcerned about alleged climate change
I’m a little upset that there isn’t more media coverage of the lower levels of bicycle racing. Why don’t they care?
Bicycles cause heart attacks from 2021 onward.
Read the comments on his Guardian article. There are some serious nutjobs on it
For the first time in a long while I read some of the comments. It reminded me why I don’t read Guardian comments, the articles are bad enough
For the first time ever I read some of the comments. Talk about gluttons for punishment.
But I didn’t think that there were that many people who read the Guardian any more.
It’s mostly the socialist workers party and various other ultra far left outfits – the ones who hate white people above others, men, women, and human beings in general
Almost no one else actually reads the ‘Guardian’.
It is the ‘house’ newspaper for the BBC!
One is uncommon. The other is just the latest in a long line of doom-mongering papers posing as science. Hence the former should be in the news and the other not.
More tipping points? Is that because most of the other tipping have come and gone without anything happening? And we’re still waiting, mostly with unbated breath. for the arrival of the remainder.
I know the reason why we’ll be waiting a while for the rest of the ‘tipping points’ to materialise (all together now) “Oh, it’s a long way to tipper-ary, it’s a long way to go!”
I’ll get me coat.
Here’s your hat; what’s your hurry?
My Tipping Point will occur at about 5 PM tonight.
Why wait so late?
Maybe oeman has to work until 4:30. 🙂
Maybe because there aren’t a climate crises. What is real is a energy crises. It s energy, stupid.
There may be a few climate crises(crisease – pronunciation). The thinkers lack of learning and maybe some of these gullible science types will start to realize that they are making noise, not solving problems.
Actually, due to various political diseases there is very little science going on in the “climate industry”.
The polar regions need to below -20°C each for heat from the equator to escape to space. This is the case This represents the earth energy budget.
-20°C 232 watts per square metre north
-20°C 232 watts per square metre south
27.8°C 464 watts per square metre equator.
If this guy doesn’t know this then there’s something wrong with him.
Queens funeral has higher priority than delusional academics.
Note: Southern polar region average -40°C from June to August.
Antarctica is setting records for stratospheric cold.
Scroll past the Greenland news, and see the unprecedented SH cooling…
https://electroverse.co/greenlands-record-gains-major-stratospheric-cooling-event-over-southern-hemisphere/
“I am not here to argue about [stuff which I then proceed to argue about] … That is not my place nor area of expertise [but that didn’t stop me either] …
On 9 September, just one day after the Queen’s death, yet another landmark and deeply sobering study”
Well there’s yet another clue for yet another brainless idiot. Maybe if there have already been thousands of landmark studies which are about as deeply sobering as 180 proof vodka, none of which have come true, maybe people have learned to tune you out. Maybe 50 years of crying wolf calls for less media coverage than the death of someone who held down the same boring job for 70 years without once crying Look At Me!
It’s such a curious thing to watch, people have been seduced by the cult of Climate Catastrophe and use it as a vehicle to express their own mental health issues. We’re not debating science at this stage, this is a cultural and ideological struggle between people who are seriously challenged in life and others who are well grounded and recognize there has never been a better time in earth’s history to be alive. It’s my contention that the CAGW cult is a weapon created and deployed by communist forces as a way of defeating the western free world.
Mental health issues brought on by a delusional belief in fantasies maybe but I think many of these academics have underlying personality disorders as well; a martyr complex in some, some form of frustrated megalomania perhaps where they are the only ones who can fix the world so they should be leading us all except few take them seriously. The therapy bill after the climate change farce collapses will be enormous.
Who dreamed up the 1.5°C figure in the first place.
There seems to be disagreement about what the start date should be and what the correct starting femperature is, especially following homogenising (aka fiddling) the earlier figures.
There has been a tipping point every ten years in my lifetime, none of which have come to pass.
The only real emergencies in that time were the Cuban missile crisis and the incredible waste of money on the so-called ‘climate crisis’ which would have been better spent on mitigating the effects of weather events and reducing real pollution, not CO2.
When you think how much money has been wasted on climate change crap rather than used where it is still needed then it really is heartbreaking. Those academics and vested interests that have pocketed such vast sums at the expense of the poor and desperate have all got blood on their hands – blood up to their shoulders dammit.
Agreed.
Mr. P.: here’s my Kamala Harris imitation:
“1.5 degrees celtic is what science tells us is very dangerous, and it is between 1.0 celtic…..(puts hand to earpiece) celsius and 2.0 celt….celsius, about halfway, which is math, and there is very strong consensus that math is science. Every day.”
Ecologists were wrong about polar bears and elephants
OMG you mean they’ve found that they can mate after all? Offspring are to be named ‘Polar Opposites’ a new hybrid species!
No, they will be white elephants.
No wait, we have many of those already, wind farms for one
Good one…
Maybe because the level of antarctic ice not so bad … compared to 1986 …
If it was up to me, I’d have an ice-free Arctic and the benefit of an open Northwest Passage.
You can’t always get what you want. No-one seems to have a say in the matter.
Climate change scares are just a scam
It’s fraud or extortion with menaces. It would be illegal if it wasn’t political and also used by our elected representatives as well.
Because the climate crisis is a background scam (one most people don’t care about), and the queen’s death a real event, even if her ‘rule’ is 99.99% symbolic.
But then, the Guardian should really know better.
The Guardian (writers and readership) wants a UK Republic, in the main. In small communities across London, their fellow travellers are nodding in agreement, sagely thinking that the whole Royal family is irrelevant and should be scrapped in favour of a political, wasteful and inordinately expensive token figurehead who will screw things up then walk away with a fat retirement package and many tv and book deals.
Tony Blair?
Any ex-PM who thought they could have another couple of terms on exorbitant pay, former BBC presenters and anyone that could con their way through an election. If you think Blair would be bad, imagine Attenborough.
Remind me not to add Professor Euan Ritchie to my Xmas card list.
And for the record, the Queen was the patron of many wildlife charities, and King Charles III is no shrinking violet on the environment.
Easy. Because QE2’s death is real where climate change is not
Virtue signal much, Professor Ritchie?
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“Dear Diary. Today I showed the World, or at least the remaining 2,776 Grauniad readers, how much I really, really, really care. I care. Nobody cares as much as I care. I care so much I trashed the Queen. No-one can top that for caring. Tomorrow is another day to show how much I really care.”
Sad pathetic narcissist throwing a tantrum…
Grow up, grow a pair and positively contribute to the world.
Yeah that comment really doesn’t look right, it needs a little rewrite: “But it paled into insignificance and near obscurity because it was garbage and failed on it’s own (lack of) merit.”
Maybe because the Queen was a real person who seemed to be kind and dedicated to her people while the “climate crisis” exists only in the fevered dreams of megalomaniacs who wish to enslave and control the world and does not exist anywhere in reality.