Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – UN Messenger of Peace for Climate Change Leonardo DiCaprio is finally taking his responsibility to set a personal example seriously, with news that he plans to flight share his private jet with other passionately green A-list celebrities.
What planet are you on, Leo? DiCaprio flies his LA friends 6,000 miles around the world so they can listen to his speech on GLOBAL WARMING
When Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio hosts a reception for a string of A-list stars, supermodels and wealthy philanthropists later this month, he will make an impassioned plea for more action to be taken on global warming.
But instead of holding the event in Los Angeles, where most of his guests are based, they will fly halfway around the world to the glitzy French resort of St Tropez – at enormous cost to the environment.
Last night, green campaigners were quick to criticise 41-year-old DiCaprio, who in February used his Best Actor acceptance speech at the Oscars to warn about the dangers posed by climate change.
The reception – the grand-sounding Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Annual Gala To Fund Climate and Biodiversity Projects – will be held on July 20 at the Bertaud Belieu Vineyards on the French Riviera.
Celebrities including Kate Hudson, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Spacey are all expected to attend, along with a host of international rock and pop stars, supermodels and tycoons.
And while a table seating 12 people at the gala costs up to £125,000, the real price will be paid by the environment.
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The Daily Mail claims some greens have criticised DiCaprio’s extravagant long haul global warming gala, but I think they are being unduly harsh. After all, as far as I know DiCaprio normally doesn’t share his jet with lots of other celebrities.
Imagine the carbon footprint if all those green A-listers flew their own private jets.
By flight sharing on DiCaprio’s jet, those A-listers might still be collectively clocking up the same carbon footprint as a small city, but the saving over what could have been represents a win for nature. We should all recognise and applaud the heartfelt sincerity of DiCaprio’s baby steps towards setting a green example we can all aspire to.
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Hypocrites.
Why not blow out all of the windows, and half fill it with dirt (soil/earth/loam/whatever) and plant poppies in it, or California or Iceland Poppies.
Then you could take the engines and dump them in some not too deep tropical waters to start an artificial reef. Drain all the petrofluids out first.
Then we’ll have some idea that you are serious.
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Of course. You can’t be left wing without being a hypocrite. You can’t expect them to live like they expect us to can you. Thought they all flew in separate planes like the Royal family in case of an accident some of the Wankerati will survive.
It’s time these phony actors went back to doing what they do best–filling tabloid pages with salacious photos and tales of them cavorting with scantily clad bimbos. No one should take them seriously. Having a “cause” is just a fad they’ve embraced to keep their mug in the paper between films. They’re nothing but “stage people.”
I think we need a new law requiring them to all fly on the same plane, just in case there is an “accident”.
Disclaimer for those w/o sense: I do not actually wish harm on anyone. I just want a lot of people to shut up.
Wankerati LOL
Wankerati indeed.
Is ” phony actor ” an oxymoron, or a tautology ??
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You have to remember that Leo was not acting when he played Howard Hughes. He really is that insane and arrogant. He believes he is infallible and a genius — all knowing. In the next few years he will have locked himself in a hotel peeing in a bottle waiting for doomsday.
C’mon, you all know the mantra by now. Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others. Haven’t you got the message through your thick skulls yet?
the vlasti are entitled to their perks, given the exhausting w*rk they do, gallantly leading us forward to our glorious green future comrade!
My thought exactly – All Animals Are Equal But Some Animals.PIGs Are More Equal Than Others.
Warmist mantra -Whats mine is mine – Whats yours is mine!
typical Hollyweird: all show, no go.
i loathe these scum, and the ruin they have helped make out of a once great place to live… #Failifornia
i aspire to not holding such meetings and not doing any more COPs. use the INTERNET please.
..I noticed that nowhere does it say that he is going to “flight share his private jet” for FREE !!
I think it would be required to be free, otherwise he would be considered to be running an airline and be subject to all kinds of restrictions, like going through TSA to get on his plane.
I have twice ridden on Corporate jets; well one was actually a turbojet. Got a free trip for a week in Baja on a plane owned by some world travelling international uberexecutives.
Well I had to show one of them how to fish, and lend him some expensive fly fishing gear (which he damaged).
The other was a Sabre-liner owned by Monsanto Corp and flown almost exclusively for the benefit of the head of their Central Research Labs. That was some kind of a ride.
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Hypocritical clowns like DiCaprio and many others who say climate change is such a dangerous catastrophe would be more convincing if they actually acted like it’s such a dangerous catastrophe.
KKDave…
While agreeing in principle with your assessment, skeptics are in danger of a similar ‘hypocrite’ accusation:
“…they will fly halfway around the world to the glitzy French resort of St Tropez – at enormous cost to the environment.”
Well, my position is that there is basically zero cost to the environment. He says there is, but I say not.
I don’t like the hubris over the difference between their words and deeds, which sets the mark of the man. But I cannot claim it is ‘harmful to the environment’ because I think it makes diddly squat difference. Increased CO2 has only a weak forcing capability when starting at 380 ppm.
Flying 100 jets to a conference on anything is just putting money in the pockets of pilots and airports and fuel vendors. It’s better than what they used to do which was buying cocaine to support the drug cartels of the South.
If CO2 and H2O were the only byproducts from jet fuel, you might have a point. But burning jet fuel also produces CO, C, NOx, and various toxicologically relevant compounds including carcinogenic substances. So it’s really quite difficult to claim that there is “zero cost to the environment.” Besides, it’s failure to live by your own rules that makes you a hypocrite, not a failure to live by someone else’s rules. These hypocrites are working hard to get government to force the rest of us to live by their rules while they ignore them completely.
On Independence Day, Crispin celebrated independence of mind- the backbone of real courage.
You don’t have to face death to be brave. You have to face LIFE – and choose it.
Mocking retards is all very well- they are, indeed, nature’s clowns.
But maybe if people stopped paying them to do what they do – there’d be just that much less hypocrisy going around.
Courage. Just do it.
Increasing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a net benefit. Neither animal nor blade of grass would exist, absent CO2. Increasing CO2 extends growing seasons & lets plants move higher in altitude & Latitudes; just as it helps to shrink deserts, plants using H2O more efficiently. Rising temperatures also extend growing seasons, help babies of nearly every species, increase net rainfall & save lives; because cold kills. The Earth is greener, more fertile & life sustaining than it was 40 years ago.
Well your last paragraph is just a variant of the ” broken window ” fallacy.
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That’s OK, he’s causing BS meters to go ding!ding!ding!!! all over the world . . .
DivestInvest, Toronto, June 7, 2016
‘Canadian Foundations Join Global Fossil Free Movement’
“A global coalition, Divest-Invest Philanthropy includes iconic foundations such as, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Leonardo Di Caprio Foundation, …”
More at: http://www.divestinvest.org/philanthropy/Canadian-Foundations-join-global-fossil-free-movement
Does that mean that Canada will no longer be allowing paleontology? Will the country’s museums be liquidating all fossil collections?
They had better give the Smithsonian its T-rex back before they start “divestment” or whatever.
Canadian foundations who joined DivestInvest from the above DivestInvest article are:
Toronto Atmospheric Fund, Toronto
Catherine Donnelly Foundation, Toronto
Comart Foundation, Toronto
AllyKat July 4, 2016 at 5:39 pm wrote: “Does that mean that Canada will no longer be allowing paleontology? Will the country’s museums be liquidating all fossil collections?”
That’s funny, AllyKat!
These people are flakes
Rules for me and rules for thee. I will take CAGW seriously when those who say it is a problem live the way they command me to live. Lead by example.
Agreed.
The point is not to lead by example. It never has been. The point is to remind you of your proper place.
Peasant.
I’ll believe CAGW is real when they order everyone to stop consuming new clothes, ration food, stop all civil air travel and order corporations to set their staff up to telecommute. I’ll believe silly actors are serious about it, and the IPCC besides (more actors!) when they SKYPE these meetings instead of flying to resorts.
The elite are about to get their comeuppance–the peasants have started to figure a few things out.
One would think he would have a staff member who could figure out how to start a go fund me type account. Of course, online giving does not have the same potential for virtue signaling…
I’ll believe CAGW is real when/if real science says so.
Still waiting.
Simply take NOTHING from out of the ground; for ANY reason.
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“I will take CAGW seriously when those who say it is a problem live the way they command me to live.”
I NEVER WILL.
Thanks, Eric, but lets invite DiCaprio et al to the London Climate Conference at University College on September 8&9 – he and his guests might just learn something most worthwhile.
In the meantime, the CO2 contributed will help some plants grow!
Happy Independence Day WUWT gang,
To assuage their Aircraft guilt, this earth worship video is on the movie screen…
Keep them away from Six Flags New Jersey—the 15,000 trees being razed for solar power will the death of all of them. Even if it is to “save the planet”. (Yeah, right…….)
Realitycheck
I had heard nothing of this in the UK but it seems to be true
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/redevelopment/2016/03/23/jackson-six-flags-great-adventure-solar-farm/82168606/
Not quite as mad as our drax power station importing wood pellets from the states but it Is almost in the same league. The protestors had wanted to build a solar canopy over the theme park car park which seems a better solution but that was turned down
Tonyb
Yeah, I think they’re removing the trees to convert them to wood pellets…I think?
How many (acres of) trees does it take to publish just one issue of the Sunday New York Times ??
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In response to this video I walk out to the back lot, fire-up the trusty ole Stihl 391, and make a large wooden object fall over …
…even they don’t believe it
Oh this kind of crap is nothing new for Leo ( the idiot ). You do remember this one dontcha?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656850/Leonardo-DiCaprio-borrows-one-largest-superyachts-earth-treat-pals-World-Cup-style.html
I feel left out.
One might ask how many seats Leo has to share. The seats in a luxury jet are not exactly squeezed into every available spot as one finds in “steerage” class on commercial flights. The greenies may believe that Leo is offering 100 of his closest friends and ride to St. Tropez, but the actual number is more likely less than 10.
This assumes that his jet has ten seats, instead of a sofa and coffee table and a theatre sized TV.
My guess is he does not have it set up for maximum seating.
Why would he?
Try 3, at most.Even a Gulfstream g650 is usually configured to carry 5 passengers “in comfort.”
I think the Monsanto Sabre-liner (circa 1966/7) had comfortable seating for at least six, and it might have been eight. Two pairs of facing seats and a table between on each side. I just remember that on take off from Sacramento to come to SFO after having to stop for fuel due to big headwind over rockies, on St Louis to California hop, everything on the table went flying into my lap, as we went up at about 45 degrees. Whereas at Lambert Field in St Louis, we used all 11,000 ft of runway and maybe then some.
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I’ve always postulated that the brain of a liberal, progressive, enviromentalist never matured to the point of reality. This is a perfect example of the disorganized, incoherent firing of synapses in the brain. Having a mature brain it is impossible for me to comprehend this type of childish, emotional behavior. They obviously need a “safe place” to recover from the trauma of downed tree.
In order to take on roles that are typical of Hollywood drama one must lack a certain level of development in their personality. Try taking any line in a recent chick-flik and say it with a straight face … if you are a functional, well-developed adult it is impossible to do.
Take a line from any action flick and get the same result. Let’s be real, no one is going to see Independence Day 2: Moneygrab for the plot.
No, I know a good number of liberal, progressive environmentalists of decent intelligence that truly want to help humanity as best they can. The problem is that they do not hold seats of power and are too rational to attract media attention.
They are ashamed about this sort of thing as well.
Maybe after 30 years of bad grant science the CO2 game is up?
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/crippled-atlantic-conveyor-triggered-ice-age-climate-change
Concur with everyone’s comments. The arrogance and hypocrisy is not surprising. It is human nature to adopt an attitude of moral superiority to others to gain power, and to feel you have figured out how to solve the worlds’ problems and relieve guilt about “sinning against nature”, and/or having more wealth than others. Unfortunately many in the developed world have beem indoctrinated their whole lives to feel guilty about being human, about being wealthy compared to developing countries, and impacts on the environment. We must make amends is their mantra. But all of these activisits, who are virtually all from the developed world, do not sacrifice a thing. I’m sorry, sharing your private jet with others is not a sacrifice. These people want to ease their conciences, and maintain power and control, by denying affordable energy to the developing world. It is human nature to not trust other groups of people you do not share a language or other cultural norms or values with. Hence, they don’t want China or India to develop into superpowers like them selves. I believe this is a core, but largely sub-concience feeling of many in the human-caused climate change establishment, because they don’t trust other nations to develop responsibly. I do trust developing nations, and am happy to see them achieve a good standard of living, as we have. They may create some environmental problems along the way, but they will amend them as we did and are doing ( we solved the acid-rain issue, leaded gas,, have cleaner running cars, and a myriad of environmental regulations, more and more parks, sustainable logging practises, etc.)
Fundamentally, this isn’t about the climate, it’s about developed nations maintaining control, and maintaining their advantage, thereby maintaining their way of life. Virtually all in the climate establishment would be indignant about an accusation such as this, because they feel they are doing somewthing good for the world and easing their conciences. But they should look deeper and closer at what they are truly advocating. You don’t help developing nations by denying them the energy to develope, but you help the environment righ?, Which to AGW advocates is more important than humanity. After all, these folk and their ilk think there are too many people in the world. Hence, no energy for developing nations, and they themselves sacrifice nothing, knowing full-well they will retain use of fossil fuels if necessary to always maintain their standard of living. ,
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Ah , Fourth Follies .
Not clear that Leo owns his jet or just hires them as he needs them .
It is a sacrifice. Letting random Hollywood types onto your jet is like riding the subway with the world’s lowlifes. They are dirty, smell bad, and leave a mess behind.
Just getting the plane cleaned up again must be a tremendous effort for the work crews. I know it is symbolic and all, but I would never do it.
I doubt Leo is Letting random Hollywood types onto his jet.
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S
Leo – Education: John Marshall High School & Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles, CA. Yep, I always listen to high school Hollywood “geniuses” like Leo for all my science lessons. After all Leo is still traumatized from “personally” witnessing climate change in Calgary – or as we call that incident – a normal seasonal Chinook.
Too bad it wasn’t a Grizzly! 😉
It’s sad that someone who made their fortune from the media hasn’t heard of video conferencing.
Will he be buying bus ticket offsets??
Nothing more than a useful id*ot.
The only “green” is the naivety of people who are still in the Pro-choice Church of selective principles, science, etc. Can someone with a pro-choice religious/moral philosophy technically be classified as a sanctimonious hypocrite (i.e. bigot)? Plan another baby to the mortal gods from the twilight zone. The liberal and progressive departure from the strictly constrained scientific domain is unprecedented.