From the NASA Goddard Facebook page, 4/29/16:
Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited Goddard Saturday to talk about NASA Earth science with former astronaut Piers Sellers, the current deputy director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
They discussed NASA missions studying changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, water and land masses for a climate change documentary DiCaprio has in production.
Using Goddard’s Hyperwall high-definition display system, they viewed presentations based on actual science data captured by NASA’s fleet of satellites orbiting Earth, as well as climate and ocean-current modeling done by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard. The background visual shows the biosphere with data from a NASA satellite instrument called the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS).
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10704
Mr. DiCaprio also viewed the clean room where the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is being developed.
I have to wonder, did Piers Sellers tell DiCaprio what he was actually looking at? That image from SEAWIFS shows the greening of the planet thanks to increased CO2, as documented on WUWT back in 2008, and corroborated by a recent press release from NASA Goddard: NASA: Carbon dioxide fertilization greening Earth, study finds
My bet is both were oblivious to what was behind them on the big screen. If they weren’t, I doubt they considered it important information.
From another photo:
Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited Goddard Saturday to talk about NASA Earth science with former astronaut Piers Sellers, the current deputy director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
They discussed NASA missions studying changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, water and land masses for a climate change documentary DiCaprio has in production.
Using Goddard’s Hyperwall high-definition display system, they viewed presentations based on actual science data captured by NASA’s fleet of satellites orbiting Earth, as well as climate and ocean-current modeling done by the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard.
Mr. DiCaprio also viewed the clean room where the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is being developed.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
From People Magazine:
DiCaprio, 41, has been working on a climate change documentary, having traveled to Baffin Island in the Arctic last summer. In 2007, he created, produced, co-written and narrated The 11th Hour, a documentary that gave viewers a look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.
DiCaprio’s last climate film, The 11th Hour, was a total bomb, earning just $985,207, and in limited theater release with just 111 theaters. In the USA, it earned only $707,343 and was ranked 259th for the year out of all films.
Source: Box Office Mojo http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=11thhour.htm
With a poster like this, it isn’t hard to see why people didn’t react well to it. After all, who wants to see a film that makes the audience look like jack booted Gaia thugs?
Meanwhile the movie Climate Hustle is gaining steam. Go see it Monday night.
What will this one be called?
“TIME’S UP; We’ve Reached DOOM O’CLOCK?”
Leonardo should join one of he political parties. He’s doing pretty good for someone with no post secondary education.
What is Leonardo’s purpose in making these documentaries if nobody sees them? Does it just give him the excuse he needs to fly all over the world in his private jet and not feel guilty about his own enormous (and growing) carbon footprint? How about he make a documentary showing us how he is practicing what he preaches by reducing his own impact on planet earth? These self-appointed elites always think they are exempt from the rules they want to impose on the rest of us.
Is it me or is Di Caprio slowly morphing into Mann
DiCaprio and male, two words not often seen in the same sentence.
Care to lay odds that when the observations didn’t match claims, NASA substituted their day dream climate simulations instead?
Typical NASA, fill in the empty spots and overwrite the unpleasant data with made up foolishness.
And DiCaprio…?
He won’t be the first stone brained Hollywoodite to believe in fairies and spend all their money chasing false idols.
Piers Sellers with a classic deer in headlights look. Piers is probably envisioning who will portray Piers in DiCaps next movie bomb. Considering how badly DiCaprio portrayed Hugh Glass, maybe Piers should hope the bear fills his role.
That footprint could be Crapios carbon footprint
That is the goddamdest, stupidest, ugliest movie promotion poster I’ve ever had the misfortune of laying my sorry eyes on. That is also the goddamdest, stupidest, ugliest piece of graphic design crap I have ever seen.
I realize those former two statements are nothing other than ad hominem attacks. But, I worked as a commercial artist for over 30 years so there’s at least a little bit of intelligence behind them (my sister, my older sister, would dispute that, though).
The composition doesn’t break any rules (eco freaks are fascists, after all), but there’s no movement, no directing of the eye, no action, no real center of interest, no originality to it. But then, I guess that’s exactly the kind of lifestyles our eco superiors have in mind for us (but not them). Hmm; maybe the composition’s appropriate after all. DiCaprio’s big Freudian slip
What are the odds Sellers corrected him on some of the nonsense he obviously came out with if they discussed “climate change”?.
See see science and activism hand in hand like this is concerning to say the least. NASA are truly political. There is no doubt. They are not even trying to hide the fact, and offer it as a “good thing” except any philosophical examination would lead to the logical conclusion science and activism cannot coexist without one influencing the other.
Leo has 2 great skills, maybe 3.
First is the ability to pretend to be something he’s not
Second is the ability to properly recite the lines that others told him to say.
Third is the ability to think that rules that he is willing to impose on you and me should not apply to him and not realize what that makes him.
I like your list. Applicable to, well, lots of people.
But, the third item is only a skill when you can repeatedly get away with such through the manipulation of others … he doesn’t have that skill. He only gets away with it because of the popularity that he has gained through the use of the first two skills.
🙂 I hate to see him get more credit than he deserves.
Put a bent cigarette drooping from his lips and he would be a dead ringer for Andy Capp.
Any person with a brain would have asked ” why is the planet so green”
One day, billions of years from now , when the sun is a obut to go super Nova, the last alarmist on earth, the great, great, great, great, great,………. grand child of a love in between Michael Man and Al Gore, will say ” see, told you, the earth is going to fry!”
Di Caprio’s best movie success was getting raped by a bear. It was grizzly..
Meanwhile, “Years of Living Dangerously” Season 2 has been postponed until late 2016. Showtime and Nat Geo Channel won’t set a date, yet. My colleague was approached about being a ‘talking head’ for the show until they found out he was a skeptic. Since then, they haven’t contacted him to be interviewed. Why let the truth interfere with a good story.
Reminds me of Hollywoods preference for movies that are anti-soldier.
They get great reviews and win all kinds of awards, but always bomb at the box office., but they keep making them anyway.
Sometimes it seems they are more interested in making movies for each other, than for the masses.
I remember reading an interview with George Clooney (not a fan of his politics) where he told of a visit between himself and some of his friends and DiCaprio and his entourage. Clooney said DiCaprio and his buddies kept challenging Clooney and his guys to a game of basketball, and were bragging about how good they were. Clooney said they didn’t want to play but the trash talking got so irritating that they did, and Clooney’s team proceeded to demolish DiCaprio’s team in three straight games of 11-0 or 11-1. Clooney said its important to have someone in your life who will tell you what’s what, and not just feed your ego, and its obvious DiCaprio doesn’t have that. I think of that whenever I read about DiCaprio’s Global warming crusade. It all seems so one sided and obvious that he’s not getting a balanced story on the subject, or doesn’t want a balanced story, and he has no one around him who will tell him the real facts on global warming, probably because he won’t hang out with anyone who does tell him whats what.