Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate advocate Leonardo DiCaprio has called for climate “deniers” to be banned from public office. President Obama, sharing a stage with DiCaprio, did not object – Obama’s words in my opinion appear to actually lend some support to DiCaprio’s outrageous demand, for limiting the US people’s freedom to choose leaders who represent their views.
DiCaprio: Climate change doubters shouldn’t hold public office
Politicians who don’t believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.
“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”
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“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.
“The political system in every country is not well-designed to do something tough now to solve a problem that people will really feel the impact of in the future.”
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Read more (includes a video): http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/leonardo-dicaprio-barack-obama-sxsl-climate-change
How many tyrants and dictators through history have used the pretext of an imminent disaster to seize control, to deprive people of their freedom?
It is one thing for a hypocritical jetset climate clown like DiCaprio to say something outrageous and anti-democratic. But it is an entirely different issue, when the serving President of the United States, who took an oath to defend the US constitution, fails to discharge his duty by speaking up against a high profile verbal attack against the liberty of the people he swore to protect.
“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically…….”
Peversely designed? By whom Mr. President?
I interpret that statement as an admission that the climate change issue is in fact manufactured and did not come about naturally. It’s an admission that there is more political opposition to it than was expected when the climate end-of-the-world-gloom-and doom campaign was created. All of the financial, political activist and scientists’ careeer-enhancing vested interests involved here are not being advanced as well as planned, are they Mr. President?
Yes indeed. The faultiness of the whole thing really creeps up on you and gives you a hard time when you intended climate alarmism to be used to achieve goals that have nothing to do with the Earth’s climate, eh Mr. President?
Well put.
Quite so. CAGW is a perfect example of Unintelligent Design.
In the real, non-government world, sometimes “perversely designed really hard to solve issues” are called wild goose chases. You know, those type of problems that sound really bad on the surface, but after a lot of time and effort to solve them, you eventually conclude that the problem isn’t as bad as it initially sounded, there are good reasons to leave the issue as-is, and the best approach for everyone going forward is to just stop chasing the goose.
The passage of time usually brings clarity to these issues. So when do you stop chasing the goose … rational, open people who are willing to look at all sides of the issue just know when it’s time to stop chasing the goose. Single minded people or Government with an agenda on the other hand does not know when to stop chasing the goose.
When you aren’t paying for the chase, and in fact your employment depends on the chase continuing, it’s not surprising that government officials don’t want the chase to end.
here comes the goose –
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/04/al-gore-to-campaign-for-clinton-hoping-to-galvanize-young-voters-on-climate-change/?utm_term=.fe34bdd20063
“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically…….”
Peversely designed? By whom Mr. President?
By God, of course.
Who was that UN official who declared that it didn’t matter if global warming was true or not, since it gave them the excuse they needed to do what they had been wanting to do.
That being a one world government and the elimination of capitalism.
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony … climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
— Christine Stewart, (BSc. in nursing), former Canadian Minister of the Environment, in an interview in the Calgary Herald, December 14 1998.
“What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
— Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation and member of The Club of Rome.
— Statement made whilst U.S. Democrat Senator for Colorado in 1988.
Methinks this second rate actor is getting to big for his boots. There was I thinking that America is/was the land of the free, indeed isn’t that in their anthem? It would seem one is only free when one toes the line and agrees with the scare tactics of a dictatorship.
He’s been to big for his boots for a long time but hey, according to the Hollywood scripts all he has to do is change his boots, he just asks for different ones and the flunky will have a pair ready.
DeCaprio is just the tip of the coming iceberg for the Climate Gestapo-led suppression of free speech on the internet. The Left controls the MSM and the climate propaganda lies they spew.
The problem is for them less than 40% of people believe Climate Change is a serious problem. The Left blames the free access of information on an open internet for that. Which is probably true. Propaganda doesn’t work against a population when freedom of speech and the press is protected and the population has ready access to websites like WUWT, Tony Heller’s, JoNova’s etc.
There are plenty of elites who think like DeCaprio and are more than willing to impose their views and suppress the masses via control of not just politicians but all forms of free speech on the internet.
Now that ICANN is free from the Department of Commerce, it will likely become a part of the UN’s ITU.
Then we’ll see the UNFCCC, WMO, WHO, UNHCR jointly petition the World Court (ICJ) for a declaratory judgement that Climate Change “d3nial” on websites is a “crime against humanity.”
This declaratory ruling will allow the ITU-ICANN to order websites that publish skepitcal content to take down that content or face domain name global internet death.
Welcome to 1984.
It seems that the discussion is too political: is it just “the left” that supports the consensus on warming? I’m generally left of center but I don’t support the consensus, and I have to say that it irks me that this is cast in a “liberal” light: it’s the liberals, stupid. No, it’s not: it’s the corruption of the science, stupid, and that should be the focus. Should we have an open and free discussion of the science? Yes. Is the reason we don’t have one because of the left-leaning greenies? No. The reason we don’t have an open discussion is because Mann and the U of East Anglia have succeeded in convincing everyone that they’re right, and yes, this is a cause for the greenies but the whole scenario isn’t due to liberals or greenies: it’s due to bad science. So please, keep your eye on the ball.
You may be one of the honest left.
But it is not Mann and others that have fooled your compatriots … if they are fooled then they did it to themselves, they have biased themselves in order to embraced the catastrophic BS, to use it as a tool to get what they want. If you can’t recognize this aspect of the whole deal then you are fooling yourself as well.
Take a look at your liberal friends. Are they gullible dupes … are they so much more intellectually challenged than you that they can’t see it while you can?
(and no, Mann hasn’t succeeded in convincing EVERYONE)
if you focus and only keep your eye on the science ball they will change the rules and kick you off the field as soon as they get a chance, as Joel has pointed out.
Don,
“The reason we don’t have an open discussion is because Mann and the U of East Anglia have succeeded in convincing everyone that they’re right…”
Then why would “Climate Change” consistently poll at or near the bottom of long lists of general concerns people have? And why would it be entertained as necessary to outlaw those who don’t share that concern holding public office? Wouldn’t it be political suicide to resist the multitude that is ostensibly convinced Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity?
Now, perhaps you meant everyone in certain classes of people, like UN officials . . but please bear in mind that the UN is a coming together of the most powerful people in each country . . not a coming together of the people of the world. It’s an “elitist” affair by definition, and if by “left” you mean concerned for the less fortunate of the world, I suggest that club is actually LINO (left in name only ; ) . . as I believe the mass media corporations/talking heads are too . .
And that’s “the rub” of political leftism in general, as I see it; It’s easily commandeered by those who are anything but champions of the poor/downtrodden, and since it requires strong societal controls to do much of anything to help those unfortunate folks through governance, the strong control inevitably ends up in the hands of wealthy/powerful tricksters . . who are really interested in more wealth and power for themselves.
It would be nice if we could count on only angels and saints to rule over us, so they could see to it that everyone was well taken care of, but that is just not the way politics works in reality-land. I think the American Founders understood that, and came up with a divided powers form of Government, which if kept intentionally weak in terms of societal controls, is our best chance at actually helping the less fortunate to overcome their plight eventually, with some help from “leftists” who want to help with that process . . which actually includes many considered to be on the “right” too, it seems to me.
One of the first things leftists do when they achieve power, is to restrict the ability of the people to access information that is not government approved.
As I recall, Soros and /or associates was one party pushing for removing the internet from U.S. control?
Can go back to this issue if anyone wants to.
CIGI, Ontario, Canada
Global Commission on Internet Governance, Established January, 2014
More at:
http://www.cigionline.org/series/global-commission-internet-governance-paper-series
Scroll down to articles: 2013 & 2014.
Also on the internet: CIGI + Internet
LAWFARE, January 22, 2014
‘Global Commission On Internet Governance’
Chair.: Carl Bildt, Sweden
Lists the U.S. Commission members at:
http://www.lawfareblog.com/global-commission-internet-governance
Straight from the “here we go again department”:
What defines whether or not someone “believes”? If it ever comes to the point of someone attempting to legislate for it, this is where the whole notion of banning “them” (or doing anything else to “them”, for that matter) will fall apart
A little hint: actors are paid to say their lines.
Question for Anthony:
Why is D3nier (spelled correctly of course) still moderated word?
It is in the title of this thread.
And like “Deplorable”, I wear it as Badge of Honor in this most dishonorable of political times.
Note I have a comment post stuck in moderation, which is frustrating.
Is this the same bloke that confused the normal weather event, the Chinook wind with climate change? And had the audacity to say the locals had never witnessed this before. I wonder if Obama tells him climate change is affecting his golf game.
Anything that exposes Obama’s incompetence (which is almost his entire 7 1/2 yrs of executive blunders), Obama either blames on Republicans, or if that doesn’t work (like his Syria blunders) he then blames on CO2 levels.
Obama is beyond incompetent. DiCaprio is beyond stupid. Both are Maniacally evil IYI’ers (like menacing clowns with an IVY league degree standing at the edge of a wooded clearing to lure naive to their fate. Psychopath clowns,, like DiCaprio and Obama, are usually high IQ).
@John of Cloverdale
My thoughts exactly! Here we have an individual whom I can confidently say has a Carbon Footprint that
far exceeds my own. After all this individual has several mansions that need to be keep lit, air
conditioned (both heated and cooled), several yachts that require fossil fuels to sail the briny seas, not to
mention the private jets. Do I even have to point out the Carbon Footprint required to make one of his films?
Looking through his filmography I can note that at no time has he acted in a role that even remotely
resembles that of a Climate Scientist.
So why should I listen to him or feel the need to watch this film?
Others have categorized him as a “useful idiot”, though I may argue the quantum of “useful” is debatable.
AussieBear.
While there are not too many people left who deny the fact that man made CO2 is warming the earth, it is the peoples right to sort the wheat from the chaff. If someone wants to look a complete fool and deny that at least some of the warming is ours… well that’s their call and the people can choose accordingly (isn’t one of the current presidential candidates denying man’s influence?). That’s democracy. So I guess in a round about way I agree with EW.
I don’t believe CO2 is warming the earth. It’s the sun what does it.
Straw man argument. No one denies that there may be some minor warming influence. The fact remains that a) whatever that influence is, it can’t be sussed out of the climate noise, i.e. its existence is merely hypothetical, and b) whatever that influence is, it is insignificant, i.e. we should not be worried about it, If we want to worry about climate, we should worry instead about cooling, which is far more dangerous.
Bruce Cobb
“If we want to worry about climate, we should worry instead about cooling, which is far more dangerous.”
If you want to look the other way be my guest, but given every single data set is almost guaranteed from here to have 2016 a record year…. I’m going to look in the other direction.
Record year? Since the first one 4.5 billion years ago?
How does the 1930s compare with 2016 in the RSS and UAH data sets?
Perhaps you meant to say that we have no clue what a record year is, or a record year only in the past 30 odd years. So what is 36/4,500,000,000?
I see simple Simon is back and still having to lie about what others believe in order to make himself sound reasonable.
“I see simple Simon is back and still having to lie about what others believe in order to make himself sound reasonable.”
Really….. which part is a lie?
You already know.
Nope I don’t. Please explain. I think I am being extremely honest and accurate. Pretty much no one now denies (except fools and one guy running for president…. sorry same thing) mans burning of fossil fuels is contributng to the present warming. The only question is how much.
Simon,
When did Gary Johnson say he doesn’t think burning fossil fuels is contributing to the present warming?
And did he address your how much question?
“When did Gary Johnson say he doesn’t think burning fossil fuels is contributing to the present warming?”
I meant the chump Trump. But you knew that.
simon,
Nope I don’t. Please explain. I think I am being extremely honest and accurate. Pretty much no one now denies (except fools and one guy named simon . sorry same thing) Johnson is a fool. The only question is how big of a fool.
Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically.
Coming from a man with a record of executive over reach who has demanded that his security departments all provide him with a consensus report on climate change before he leaves office, that’s a bit ominous.
Ok Leo, you need to be denied access to the public and put into a straight jacket. That’s my HUMBLE opionion you freak. Go climb another water tower like you did in Gilbert Grape.
I have never heard of Professor DiCaprio! Could people her perhaps direct me to of his papers on climate change?
I will rewrite that. ”I have never heard of Professor DiCaprio! Could people here perhaps direct me to some of his papers on climate change?”
Don’t worry, we figured it out. We’re not all DiCaprio’s after all.
Can’t speak for the US, but many a UK actor has often admitted to having a poor academic record! As people have said, they are paid toread lines from a script, to effectively tell lies on stage & screen, toexist in a fantasy world!
I looked his biography up and am surprised that in the USA one can be an academic with only a general equivalency diploma (GED) qualification. I informed my window cleaner of this and she now wishes to emigrate from here in the South Malaccas and appear on CNN to pontificate about what came before the big bang!
To see a highschool dropout who needs to surround himself with models to feel worth something, talk about empiricism, ha. And Obama, Mr 57 states lol
Hayhoe is no scientist either, she’s a batchit crazy evangelical who is terrified of being questioned openly
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” is a classic example of a Hegelian dialectic oxymoron. No true science can exist within an agenda driven ‘consensus’,… but it can if the science is faith based. It appears we are dealing with a new religion called climate change. Any deviation from the dogmatic consensus is heresy,… therefore prepare for the latest inquisition to begin.
As I understand it Obama’s school records are sealed, maybe not so impressive as he proves everyday. Now DiCaprio, me thinks you failed critical thinking.
Obama, “It Was A Political Vote.”
Hey you could reintroduce segregation. You know deniers are not allowed to use the same bathrooms, eateries or entrances as believers. Now that is a step forward for the Land of the Free!! Good on you Leonard. Reverse the thought and what would you say if your films were outlawed?? Oh the outrage.
What if I were a Trans-Denier?
Ask the patrons of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
The Universities beat you to it.
“No whites allowed” safe spaces already on campus.
The democrats pulled off more secret segregation…who’d of thunk?
They know how to keep people of color on the plantation.
Memo to Leonardo: May you enjoy immediate sexual prosperity…
STFU and return the stolen Marlon Brando Oscar to the committee, you rich tax avoiding fake.
My guess is Leo pays no tax on all his travel to warn the po’folk about the danger of them spewing tons of CO2 and the resultant global warming.
And Obama the Nobel peace prize winner stayed silent – what a farce!
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.”
― Karl Popper, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
Ignorance makes dogmatism much easier.
Welcome to The McCarthy Era, Part II: The Sequel: Climate Change is Gonna Get You..
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the Resurrected Senator Joe McCarthy.
One difference is that there actually were communists in the state department.
The high school dropout was once in contention for climate prat of the year in 2014. I feel he’ll make a much stronger showing this year.
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/the-pratties-2014-the-race-is-on/
Pointman