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.
Democracy is just so inconvenient for the Climatists. If only they could somehow sidestep the democratic process using an unelected branch of government… Oh wait.
““Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.”
Isn’t this a dense observation? Climate change is hard to solve in fact, leave politics aside. We have no control variable for climate, and no way to manipulate the control variable if one existed. The only solution is adaptation, which to the elite sounds too much like letting the serfs decide for themselves.
Let’s quesry DeCaprio about the right of a Hollywood producer to lie and make slanderous statements in his film in order to deny that JFK was killed by Oswald and Oswald alone (such as the pathetically ignorant Oliver Stone’s JFK film), which can be proven far, far more easily than one can prove that global warming is dangerous. Stone should have been sued by Johnson’s estate , as well as others.
Oswald was a pigeon, who was assassinated shortly after his arrest to prevent him from defending himself.
Johnson had the most to gain and definitely was no fan of JFK and he very badly wanted to be President and Dallas was his turf. The only thing that stood in his way was Kennedy, who had beat his out in the primaries.
From the point of view of J Edgar Hoover at the FBI, he had huge private files on millions of Americans. A file proving that the vice president had ordered the assassination of the president would give Hoover leverage over the President and be much more valuable that arresting the vice president, which would have created huge problems at the time. Such a file would make Hoover the most powerful man in America. These files disappeared after Hoover’s death.
The only other likely suspect was Nixon, who flew into Dallas the day before, had served as a head of the CIA while he was Vice President under Eisenhower, and knew the CIA operatives that hated Kennedy from the Bag of Pigs. CIA operatives that Nixon later used as the “Plumbers” during Watergate. The CIA had a long record of assassination of political leaders, including the leader of South Vietnam 3 weeks before the Kennedy assassination.
The Mafia had plenty of motive. The Kennedys got their riches from working with the Mafia and one thing you do not do with them is bite the hand that has fed you. When RFK Jr went after them they retaliated by removing both of them from power. Jack Ruby who was in debt to the Mafia was summoned to eliminate Oswald. Ruby was dying of cancer anyway so he was able to secure his family’s safety.
I blogged on the Whitehouse climatefest when it was announced last week. Some people may find it interesting: https://cei.org/blog/what-president-obama-will-not-tell-leonardo-dicaprio-about-climate-policy. The question for DiCaprio is whether he was proposing the equivalent of a religious test for office or just urging people to be single issue voters on climate change. If the latter, he’s just venting an opinion common among ‘progressives.’
Both positions are pretty common among ‘progressives’.
What’s the going rate for shill appearances? And what is the bonus amount in the deal for shocking shill?
Progressives in general rarely want to allow the other side a chance to speak and, in fact, actively will try to shut down, or even prosecute, ideological opponents – this is why they are no longer liberal. DiCaprio, himself, is a barely literate moron. But he does demonstrate the standard tactic used, regardless of the issue – set up the strawman – AGW is fact and so ‘denial’ is denial of reality – (or things like ‘Trump is a racist’ and so ‘anti-Trump’ is by definition, ‘anti-racism’, or a million other examples) – and completely sidestep any discussion on whether or not the premise point is valid. It saves the marching broom-followers the trouble of thinking for themselves. Of course, you can’t do this with an honest press, which we don’t have.
DiCaprio is also the classic elitist hypocrite – a totally over-indulgent life of self-gratification and excess, while he spouts self-serving garbage from people like Naomi Klein, and says things like ‘I love money, but capitalism’s got to go’. And then, of course, he adopts some stupid cause to give his empty phony life the illusion of meaning between parties.
I was reading an article which pointed out that if you asked google about racism and races, you would find out that it is impossible for minorities to be racist.
According to them, you have to have power to be a racists, and blacks don’t have any political power.
So according to Google, I have more political power than does Obama.
The other power is in looking the other way on tax avoidance by Google parent company. That is the real power, mixed with periodic lip service at the podium.
‘Power’ is the power to act upon your racism – and that is extremely situational – pretty much dependent upon what room you’re in. If you’re outnumbered 2-1, you’re in the minority.
Progressive philosophy is not much more than a justification for persecution and hate.
Oh, for the good old days when “liberals” were liberal. DiCaprio doesn’t know the difference between science and religion, but since he is probably anti-religion, he cannot use the proper term for non-believers, atheist, and has to use the d-word.
Per Obama:
” “Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.”
“Climate change” is a term is that is incorrectly for many different meanings, sometimes intentionally misleading and sometimes not. Decaprio, Obama, and others know this … if they said “negative outcomes, as associated with changes to regional or world climate as a result of human and societal activities … ” they would lose the attention of their intended audience. Or the audience would ask them about specifics, which they don’t want.
In any event “Climate change” is a thing; like “Sun Rise” or “Evening Mist”, it cannot be solved (politically or any other way). Obama knows this and his comment is perversely honest … he is a weasel and Decraprio is getting nuttier all the time.l
Obama has that Lucifer-like quality of speaking the literal truth while almost constantly lying. I call it lawyer-lingo.
Hello WUWT readers. I respectfully request your consideration for posting a suitable science rebuttal or response to the following assertions presented in thread discussion of the recent Wallace Christy D’Aleo paper on EPA Endangerment Findings and the lack of a detectable Tropical Hot Spot that were posted at the DailyCaller site or Blog by disquis comment user “Bart_R”.
// Navier-Stokes equations allow calculation of components of energy balance in the atmosphere. These are well-established tools used throughout science and industry, and considered very exact due their successful application in such diverse fields.Navier-Stokes are so successful they allow scientists to find inconsistencies in the data that indicate unknowns, which upon investigations are found — cloud differences previously not realized, weather station moves previously undocumented, missing geographical coverage, and so on.
We know what CO2 contributes (as well as all other Greenhouse Gases — GHGs) because their saturation level and bandwidth has been accurately measured by spectroscopy in the lab. CO2 ‘shoulders’ in its bandwidth — that is, it never saturates, and it widens its width with increased intensity due the structure of the CO2 atom. This, combined with CO2’s bandwidth in an ‘open window’ among all GHG bandwidths, makes CO2 particularly powerful among GHGs other than water vapor.
Water vapor, however, is both saturating and condensing, meaning where water and CO2 overlap, CO2 increase always makes a difference, and more importantly as CO2 warms the air, more water remains in vapor form over a wider geographic area and to a higher altitude, enhancing water vapor’s powerful Greenhouse Effect (GHE). That’s why CO2 is considered the ‘control knob’ on the positive feedback ‘amplifier’ of GHE.
These energy components fed into Navier-Stokes equations gives reliable estimates, alongside albedo changes and circulation changes and trade wind changes and volcano and aerosol changes, allowing fair attribution.
Presently, calculations show that CO2 increase is likely directly and indirectly responsible for 25% more warming than has surfaced in measurement, that 25% hidden by simultaneous cooling from smog pollutants. The thing is, smog falls out of the air pretty much completely within 25 years (most of it within 5 years), while CO2 will take thousands of generations to bleed out of the carbon cycle.
As industry shifts from coal and transport shifts from oil, there will be a quarter-century period of faster warming, where the actual CO2 warming we’ve done by fossil waste dumping is revealed. And then there will be another half century of lag as land ice responds and albedo feedbacks are felt. We’re likely above 3 C degrees of warming as of today, not to be seen until the 2080’s, and there’s nothing that will stop that much global temperature rise.
The last time CO2 levels were this high for more than 70 years, millions of years ago, sea levels were many meters higher than today, and coastlines many miles farther inland. //
Link to comment > http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/05/three-largest-police-unions-endorse-trump-in-crucial-battleground-state/#comment-2916134359
Thank you for your consideration.
Is int his “charity” and movie he starred in and helped produce being investigated for money laundering etc etc
The climate has been changing for over 4 billion years and DiCaprio wants to stop that ?
Say it ain’t so . No one could possibly be that stupid .
The thing is they can no longer even bring themselves to saying what they mean ,
Everyone is supposed to know the code for scary global warming is” climate change ” because global warming prophesies have turned out to be such complete nonsense .
The science fiction is settled and the real science is at the toddler stage .
Any President or Prime Minister that thinks humans are now driving the climate bus
are insulting Mother Nature who will continue to be running the show after global warming alarmists are long gone .
Even a founding father of the great global warming con scientist Lovelock says it’s a religion and anyone who thinks they can forecast beyond 10 -15 years is nuts .
He should know he was one .
I hope DiCaprio sticks with this so his greatest role will be known as a fool .
Then alarmists should not hold public office either because they too do not believe in science. It is a matter of science that there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate. There is no such evidence in the paleoclimate record. There is plenty of scientific reasoning to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is really zero.
For many the AGW conjecture is really a matter of religion so maybe people should not be allowed to hold public office based upon their religious beliefs. All Christians should not be allowed to hold office as well as all non-christians.
If science is the criteria then only people with advanced degrees in science should be allowed to express a political opinion and to hold public office. Does Mr. DiCaprio have an advanced degree in science?
I’m alright then because its climate stability I don’t believe in.
Silence is the wisdom of fools.
I don’t agree with your ‘titanic’ suggestion. It seems you don’t have gut to convince CC deniers. Send them to me, I will convince them without failure. I am not a CC denier. But, I defy GHG idea though. GHE due to gases is impossible. CC has nothing to do with gases. GHG idea is fake, rubbish, metaphorical and that’s why there are CC deniers. Gases are the one and only ‘gateway’ for cooling the heated dry parts of the earth. In the mean time, you may visit devbahadurdongol.blogspot.com (Solution to CC and Power crisis) to learn how to convince those stupid deniers and suggest them also to visit the blog to learn science of CC.
It’s apparent that this guy knows as little about history as he does about science.
Socialism/Communism/Fascism always ends in oppression like this. They lie to you and take away your rights, then they take you away.
Dicaprio and his climate gods are the real climate deniers. These self serving blind primates deny the natural climate change/warming of the Minoan, Roman and Medieval periods that history records and data show. They deny how humanity benefited emensely from these warm periods and how humanity suffered during colder periods. Thus the label of climate change denier has been misappropriated.
Thank you famous actor.
Power hungry politicians (e.g. Hillary Clinton), Hollywood nincompoops (e.g. DiCaprio) and crony capitalists in droves love “Carbon Mitigation” because it makes them rich and powerful at the expense of the poor who have to pay more for energy.