A rainforest charity calls on the star to either denounce his connection to individuals involved in a Malaysian corruption scandal and return laundered money he allegedly received or give up his role.
In perhaps the biggest attack on Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental credibility, a rainforest charity on Friday called on the actor to give up his title as UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.
At a press conference in London, the Bruno Manser Funds offered DiCaprio an ultimatum: either he renounce his connections to the “politically exposed persons” at the center of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal now being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and return corrupt money he allegedly received or resign from the position he was given by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in 2014.
“If DiCaprio is unwilling to come clean, we ask him to step down as UN Messenger for Peace for climate change, because he simply lacks the credibility for such an important role,” said Lukas Straumann, director of the Switzerland-based charity, which has a particular focus on deforestation in Malaysia.
Full story here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leonardo-dicaprio-urged-step-down-938314 (h/t to Joe D’Aleo)
Maybe somebody could also get him to stop lecturing us about the evils of CO2 production while flying private jets all over the world.
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The Wolf of the Rain Forest strikes again.
And that’s saying a lot! How can he lack that much credibility? Is Leo like a credibility black hole? He has so little credibility he can’t even represent the incredible? Wow. That’s got to be something National Geographic should be covering. Where’s Scientific American? Nature Climate Change? All the usual suspects? This is big news! Leo DiCaprio is a credibility vacuum! Someone could get a Nobel Peace Prize for this…
…. gets you the ‘Swiss letter’.
WallSt.J. has item today on possible links with clinton Fdn. Can’t copy & paste link tho’ check it out! Cd be fun!
While typing this, I’m watching Django unchained. The connections with Lenny the goats cagw proselytising
are too close to call.
Watch “12 years as a slave”.
But scolding others is sooo much fun!
Now there is an understatement if there ever was one. His experience with Arctic Ice melting is on the Titanic soundstage as he appeared to slide into icey waters to become a popsicle.
That understanding of hypothermia-ice melt qualified him to be the UN’s Climate Messenger of Peace. But you’d think that he would have gotten the message that it is cold that kills, not warmth.
is this the same guy that called a Chinook wind Global Warming?
Chinook winds do cause global warming !
They transfer heat from the ocean to the atmosphere. Since the specific heat capacity of air is less that water this increases the average global mean temperature.
Since this non physical ‘average’ is used as the metric global warming, Chinook winds do magically cause global warming without the slightest change to the energy budget.
That’s just “basic physics”.
Yeah, and Los Ninos also cool the ocean and increase the rate of heat loss. So what does that tell you about the energy budget?
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No ocean in Colorado, Wyoming nor Montana for their Chinooks to transfer heat from.
We should cheer on and encourage Leo to even GREATER acts of criminality. His hunger cannot be denied! Let him eat the raw flesh of his children victims (boys less than 5-years age) on real-time internet video!
My guess is Leo likes his victims in the 16yr old range and female.
THE MAN PASSED THE GED!
How much more credible must one be.
ROFL
Bi BI Len DiPollutant
I’m rooting for him to keep his job, the longer he stays the bigger the joke.
Caprio caught by the ooomegoolies.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2016/10/6/playing-the-fool-josh-383.html
Language quibble.
Unless I’m missing something, the Bruno Manser Funds organization is is no position to offer an ultimatum to DiCaprio. An ultimatum is a threat by one party take some specific action unless another party either takes or ceases taking some other specific action. As in “if you do not resign as “Messenger of Peace” we will have you removed.” The Bruno Manser Fund has no power to do that; all they can do is write more letters demanding DiCaprio do things they have no power to compel.
It’s rather like a policeman chasing a suspect and shouting “Halt, or I will should ‘halt’ again!”!
Now if they said “either resign or we will release photographs of you in flagrante delicto with the underage hieress to a coal-energy fortune”, that would be an ultimatum.
my fab leonardo dicaprio😘
I certainly hope DiCaprio doesn’t step down from his self promotion role as the actor trying to stop the climate from changing . The videos of him are going to be funnier than Monty Python reruns .
DiCaprio left school at 16. It shows. He has a chip on his shoulder.
“Left?”
Perhaps kicked-out?
Yes, he has Chipmunk on his shoulder, which wd appear to be his only intellectual possession, judging by his performances (theatrical & self-promoting all).
Seems a Calgary film crew had a little fun with Leo last year and he made a total fool of himself.
Leonardo DiCaprio witnesses a ‘terrifying’ sign of climate change in Calgary — a Chinook
National Post, Tristin Hopper – December 10, 2015
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/leonardo-dicaprio-witnesses-a-terrifying-sign-of-climate-change-in-calgary-a-Chinook
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attracted widespread derision from the people of Calgary after he cited the city’s famously unusual weather as “terrifying” evidence of climate change.
“We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come,” DiCaprio told Variety.com, describing it as a “scary” vision of things to come.
“It’s terrifying, and it’s what people are talking about all over the world. And it’s simply just going to get worse.”
While Alberta winters do seem to be getting warmer lately, sudden shifts of temperature have been a Calgary winter staple for centuries. Known as Chinook winds, they are sudden gusts of warm, coastal air that coarse over the Rocky Mountains, leaving a trail of instant snow melt.
“Those who have not the warm, invigorating Chinook winds of this country, cannot well comprehend what a blessing they are,” reads a description of the phenomenon from a 1900 edition of the Calgary Weekly Herald. “The icy clutch of winter is lessened, the earth throws off its winding sheet of snow.”
Chinooks are also the origin of the favourite Calgary phrase “if you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes.”
While the actor did not mention the specific date when the phenomenon took place, it did suddenly reach 17 C on Jan. 25, sending Calgarians to patios in t-shirts.
Oddly, however, DiCaprio reported that Albertan crew members told him ‘this has never happened in our province ever.”
“I wish someone had explained to Leonardo DiCaprio what a Chinook is,” wrote Alberta MP Michelle Rempel in a Twitter Post.
DiCaprio was in Southern Alberta in early 2014 to film The Revenant, a film recounting the true story of 1820s frontiersman Hugh Glass, who mounted an epic journey out of the U.S. wilderness after being left for dead following a bear attack.
He described the warm wind encounter during a media Q&A for the film.
“I’ve never experienced something so firsthand that was so dramatic. You see the fragility of nature and how easily things can be completely transformed with just a few degrees difference,” he said.
The shoot did experience more Chinooks than usual because of a strong El Nino season, according to Global Calgary Meteorologist Jordan Witzel, who acted as a forecasting consultant on The Revenant.
But as Witzel noted on the Global News website, “You cannot make a statement on climate change based on a weather event … weather is what’s happening now; climate is what we would expect to happen into the
future.”
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Having spent over 20 years in Clagary, I’ve seen countless Chinooks. The most extreme (about 1983-4) had the temperature rise from 39 C. (one off the record I eremember) from -24 C. to +15 C. I walked to work in an artic parka; dressed-up in it to go out at lunch, and found everyone at street-level in shirtsleeves.
(For the intellectuaully challenged of this World — say no name! — here are the Fahrenheit translations: rise 70 F. from 11 F. to 59 F.)
There’s no counting for the gullible, and a fool boprn every minute…..
Shouldn’t that be -11F?
But thanks for the conversion. I do estimates in my head because I am too lazy to do the actual calculations.
Thanks to philjourdan, that shd read “-11 F. to +59 F.
Got me remembering….!
Above Chinook was prob’ly 1982.
Add: the biggest snowfall I ever saw in Calgary was on May 31st., 36″ +/-, about 1989? Turned into major city-flooding 24 hours later!!!
Before my time, but queen visited Calgary after Her Coronation (about 1954??) and it snowed during Stampede (which is usually early July, but I seem to remember was in August at the specially laid-on rodeo event).
Hard frost one mid-August killed a field of potatoes, circa 1990.
Poor Leo …. he missed it all!
Hi Ross,
I move to Calgary in 1984 and soon thereafter we had -40C (also -40F) temperatures on Halloween – the kids and I were running from house to house, freezing to death.
Since then our winter temperatures have moderated somewhat – and some idiots say this is bad?
Some thoughts below…
Regards, Allan
http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/greening-the-electricity-grid-comes-with-major-challenges
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Warm is good and cold is bad, for humanity AND the environment. Excess Winter Mortality globally is about 2 million people per year, including about 100,000 per year in the USA and up to 50,000 per year in the United Kingdom. Excess Winter Mortality rates are high even in warm countries like Australia and Thailand.
Reference: “Cold Weather Kills 20 Times as Many People as Hot Weather” by Joseph D’Aleo and Allan MacRae, September 4, 2015
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
And S. Alberta — prone to Chinooks — has been naturally denuded of forest cover since time immemorial because of the huge temperature variations caused by Chinook winds. The trees that do survive nestle into sheltered area, such as coulees, and are specially adapted.
Hallllllloooooo…..??? ….. Leo???? Chinooks b’in around a long time before the Industrial Revolution! (But your grasp of History & Geography is not your strong-point, is it?
Hi Allan:
Yes! The infamous Calgary Halloween, -40 !! … forgot that one!