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
Euan Ritchie, I hope you appreciate WUWT’s effort to shed some light on your lonely struggle to be heard, in a cruel, unfeeling world full of people who care about important issues.
Um, because the queen is a real person and her death is a real thing.
Complaining it gets more coverage than the supposed climate emergency is like complaining it gets let’s coverage than Game of Thrones.
As a Yank, I always thought both QE II & the Queen Mum were great ladies
who were “solid as the Rock of Gibralter”, as exhibited by their own
dignity & the dignity they showed others. They both understood it was
they who were the subjects of their people, not the other way around.
As such, even as teenage girls, they needed to get their hands dirty to
support the British wars of their day. The Queen Mum helped wounded
soldiers convalesce** & her daughter helped maintain Army trucks.
They also understood that as subjects to their people each subject
had the right to form an opinion of them & that the press would hound
them, making them live “in a fishbowl”. They also realized all the
attention they got & pageantry was unearned & quite superficial which
kept them grounded in the fact they were humans just like everyone else.
They realities were just part of being royalty.
Personally, I’m glad I wasn’t royalty as I got to live a normal life as
an unknown & wasn’t a slave to all the whims of society. Those two
handled it very well but I think the more open post-WWII society made
it much harder to do so. This explains at least some of the miscues
by other Royals, with the rest of it being their own immaturity
shining through.
I remember the splash Edward Windsor made in the 80s as that was
his trying to “come to grips” with a full understanding of what being a
Royal was. From what I’ve read lately, it seems like he may have
ended up as being the best of the three brothers (Please don’t slam
me too hard if I’m wrong as I pay almost no attention to the Royals).
** From Wiki, in reference to the Queen Mum-
“One of the soldiers she treated wrote in her autograph book that she
was to be “Hung, drawn, & quartered … Hung in diamonds, drawn in a
coach and four, and quartered in the best house in the land.””
ME- His wish did come true.
Probably, Euan, because the Queen’s funeral is a real thing.
The declared “Climate Crisis” has been an ongoing story for 35 years now. So much ink has been spilled for those purposes, it probably dropped the albedo of the planet leading to the warming they predicted. Damn Them! Damn them all to Hell!
Did this gent write anything about George Floyd having 4 funerals? All that energy used moving him around the states. CO2 emitted.
The queen was a lovely human and deserves it all.
It is quite convenient and saving of time that these academic soothsayers adorn themselves with descriptive titles that they imagine to be credible and grandiose and sagacious. In reality, they are a quick filter for consignment to the cylindrical file.
There is now a whole sub-culture of useless idiots playing with useless topics.
Someone should tell them.
As you age, in retirement, your mind will often ask the big question “What, in your working life, did you do to contribute materially to the benefit of your fellow man?”
It will cause sadness to the remaining years when they class their results as takers rather than givers.
Geoff S
It is rather pathetic to see that, because of the climate change fraud, this nobody (and other’s just like him) has a platform to air his innermost thoughts – it’s just sad to see that they weren’t worthwhile or of any value at all.
Euan Ritchie, perhaps it is because people experience the world rather differently from you when they walk outside their front doors every day?
The palace is a tourist attraction along with the soldiers and ceremony as is the Tower of London. Does anyone need to explain to this guy why the Queen is getting so much attention.
it was because the funeral was a real thing and the climate crisis is fiction,
Eric says:
“Euan Ritchie, I hope you appreciate WUWT’s effort to shed some light on your lonely struggle to be heard, in a cruel, unfeeling world full of people who care about important issues.”
Just to let you know your sense of humor brightens my day. 🍺
The title asks a very stupid question. The answer is obvious. The queen’s passing and the bereavement of the commonwealth are real. The climate crisis is a scientific comedy show put on by buffoons and charlatans for their own selfish reasons. The question makes the ridiculous and disrespectful comparison of a hero dedicated to 70 years of duty, service, kindness, dignity and common sense to a rabble of miscreants who have done nothing but harm for decades.
Why does the sports page list baseball scores and not lectures about how we are killing Our Mother?
They could begin spouting how games were delayed or made more difficult from
weatherClimate ChangeLeftists have a great deal of trouble understanding why people are allowed to disagree with them.
Dr. Joker and Mr. Hide
The exact tipping point of agenda alarmist fads is sometimes hard to pinpoint, especially for historians. At least we have WUWT to help keep track for comparisons later.
Qualifications
Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, 2012
Doctor of Philosophy, James Cook University, 2007
Bachelor of Science, James Cook University, 1999
I was waiting for the study from your tribe that blames the Queen’s demise on climate change. They’re a bit tardy I’ll admit but give it day or so and I’m sure all will be revealed. Then the wait will have been worth it.
Won’t happen. The Queen died in Scotland and Greenies like Scotland because of Sturgeon’s government, support of the Scottish Greens and Sturgeon’s love affair with wind turbines. No criticism of Scotland, directly or indirectly, will be tolerated.
Love one of the “Guardian Picks” comments in his article which states amongst other superior moral and intellectual points, “People are scared of climate change. It’s almost too large for human comprehension, and your average person is not able to do much about it”.
Luckily we have Guardian readers to help us plebs understand the real world. What would we do without these intellectual giants?
Because the Queens death actually happened, for real, in REALITY
I continue to be amazed that these supposedly educated people are so concerned about that imaginary 1.5 degrees number. Why 1.5? Why not 1.4, or 1.6? The matter of what could cause it, and whether we should be concerned about it, is another matter altogether. Especially when it is covered by the Guardian!
“Guardian: Why did Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral Receive More Coverage than the Climate Crisis?”
1> Queen Elizabeth II is a very classy lady – climate scientists not so much.
2> Her death was a real thing – climate science not so much.
3> People like to read (so the MSM puts out the click bait) about real events – climate science isn’t real.
4> The funeral is happening now – climate crisis not so much.
5> Thankfully, Queen Elisabeth’s funeral is a one time event. We are all tired to death of “learning” that the world is going to end hundreds of times a day for hundreds of days in a row.
Your problem Mr. Euan Ritchie is that your plea is no different that hundreds that have been made in the past (some as far back as the 1980s) all of which have not even come close to happening. You are now guilty of crying wolf so many times you have reached your expiration date. Besides every one of this past tipping points have one thing in common: computer modeling. They are not based on scientific data but best guess as to what MIGHT happen. If you really believed the science you would come to realize CO2 is not the bad guy you claim it is. Climate science is so complex it will never be accurately modeled. You ain’t God and you don’t know how it works.
Why? basically there is an actual Queens funeral happening and there is no actual climate crisis outside of peoples fevered imaginations.
Someone should send this guy the Laszo Szarka interview and then get his thoughts on the matter.
cheers
Yawn Yawn. just another PhD.Twat, trashing the reputation of Academia.