Dismal ratings for DiCaprio's Global Warming Epic 'Before the Flood' – beaten by 'Bubble Guppies'

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The weekend ratings are out, and they aren’t good news for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood‘, which we reviewed yesterday on WUWT. Showbuzz Daily has listed the top 150 TV and Cable programs for the weekend, and in ‘the hottest year ever’, discussing the ‘most important topic ever’, Before the Flood came in at #61 for the weekend.

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Ironically, the kids show “Bubble Guppies” beat it at #53. Ouch.

Perhaps this snoozer didn’t do so well because of the stellar cast of characters?

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I mean, who wouldn’t want to tune in and have a jet-setting actor-millionaire, a government handout beneficiary, a Pope, the globe-trotting Secretary of State, the lame-duck president, the ‘Horndog-in-Chief” and the leader of the U.N. come on for 96 minutes and berate you for doing things like driving your car, eating hamburgers, and just not caring enough about the planet like they do while looking down on us from their private planes?

This review on IMDB, says it all:

Al Gore says it’s so and therefore it is?

30 October 2016 | by pete-801-834182 (United States) – See all my reviews
Basically DeCaprio was told by Al Gore (who has made a hundred millions of dollars by preaching global warming after he retired from political life, gained a bunch of weight and had nothing to do) that anthropological global warming is real, and from that point onward DeCaprio was convinced. LOL! Then DeCaprio presents the ole “97% of scientists” lie that has traveled around the world. In reality 66% of scientists have no opinion about AGW — Those opinions were conveniently thrown out of the messaged John Cook study. Then DeCaprio presents cherry picked anecdotal evidence, without ever questioning whether it’s a case of Texas Sharpshooting. Why didn’t he present the Vostok Station / Greenland ice core data to put the last 100 years IN PERSPECTIVE versus the last 5,000 years, 11,000 years and 420,000 years? And if he’s such a big fan of anecdotal evidence over temperature data then why didn’t he mention that Greenland used to be green? That 20,000 years ago New York was covered by a mile thick glacier? Why didn’t DeCaprio interview Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who is not part of “Big Oil” and doesn’t buy into AGW? Because DeCaprio suffers from confirmation bias. The rest of this propaganda piece (I mean movie) continues under the ASSUMPTION that humans are causing the planet to warm and we all need to agree to tax ourselves more. No thanks.
Here’s the trailer, you can count how many times smokestacks (venting steam), gas flaring, and other images of petro-doom are presented.

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Resourceguy
November 1, 2016 11:10 am

It would be a lot more shocking to see a movie about the hometown of Obama and Hillary. The Wolf is nowhere to be found when real trouble comes along.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161031/BLOGS02/161039991/state-gets-more-awful-news-from-teachers-retirement-system

Svend Ferdinandsen
November 1, 2016 11:11 am

Does DiCaprio ever look out the windows when he is flying around the world?
Then he would see how small the human influence on Earth is regarding factories and smoke stacks.
The calving glaciers is a good and dramatic picture, but some history and relations would help.
If they were not calving we would really be in trouble. The ice cap would grow or it would be a sign of no precipitation. What would you prefer. The calving is natural for an ice cap to be in general balance.

Resourceguy
November 1, 2016 11:15 am

Plan 9 from Political Space

ossqss
November 1, 2016 11:17 am

Should have been named “Before the Dud”, just sayin…….

November 1, 2016 11:19 am

It’s really too bad that it wasn’t beaten by a South Park rerun of the ‘Manbearpig’ episode.

OneUp1234
November 1, 2016 11:21 am

I am so trying to stay open minded of both sides of this argument…..but trash like this makes it very difficult.

Reply to  OneUp1234
November 1, 2016 1:28 pm

Staying open minded about Bubble Guppies would probably be a more constructive use of your intellectual time. Leon’s crowd are peddling total fantasy without a scrap of supporting evidence. When they get around to presenting some we can then all so try to be open minded about it.

Big m
Reply to  cephus0
November 1, 2016 4:03 pm

Just when I am about to give up on humanity for being sheep I stumble across this great selection of comments by awake and aware common folk.
Sadly, nye, DiCaprio, gore, obummer and their ilk all work for the NWO and their money printing minions. They gladly exchange the freedoms and future of their fellow slaves for a few million shekels. It seems to me it is finally time to totally destroy these inbred freaks who have been running the world for maybe 2000 years. The last generation of so called elite seem so inbred and idiodic to me I think they will bring their entire system crumbling down. I for one will not comply with their forced vaccine and GMO food murder campaigns.
I also recommend folks start watching some flat earth videos and research the NASA space scam and sandy hook, Boston bombing and pulse shooting hoaxes. It is all one big giant total and complete lie. And it is all crashing in on these idiot inbreds who took things too far and now are waking up the sleeping sheep who are going to be $&/@issed.
I’m not an inbred scumbag “elite”. I’m the real deal. The real leadership. The “elite” can kiss my white ass. I can print fake money too, scumbags. You are NOT nearly as smart as you dirtbags think you are. And poisoning our kids with tainted vaccines??? What did the little kids do to you to deserve that???

November 1, 2016 11:24 am

lower than CNN?!! what a downer.

November 1, 2016 11:27 am

‘Bubble Guppies’ is about a make believe underwater city. My theory is that the Alarmists tuned in to that show by accident, saw a city underwater, and just assumed they were watching Dicaprio’s show.

November 1, 2016 11:29 am

Does Leo still think Chinook winds are something that just began a few years ago?

Kevin
Reply to  harkin1
November 1, 2016 12:01 pm

Will there be more or less Chinook winds with a warming planet?

MarkW
Reply to  Kevin
November 1, 2016 2:01 pm

Yes

Reply to  harkin1
November 1, 2016 2:03 pm

Have to say he’s not entirely blank. He still likes chilling on mega-yachts with supermodels brought in by helicopter on a rotation basis. I would too but I would not be telling other people to turn down the AC and car-pool in a Prius.

Resourceguy
November 1, 2016 11:35 am

What is TV again? I forgot.

Harry Passfield
November 1, 2016 11:41 am

Looking at the ‘cast list’ I figured DiCrapio was ‘played’ by Al Bore.

Stevan Reddish
November 1, 2016 11:59 am

video ad keeps pulling page back to it. How to stop?
SR

JohnWho
Reply to  Stevan Reddish
November 1, 2016 12:20 pm

Happening to me, too.
Very aggravating.

Samuel C Cogar
Reply to  Stevan Reddish
November 1, 2016 1:05 pm

Steven , so glad that you mentioned that.
I’ve been fighting that silly assed “ad” for the past 3 days and was beginning to think it was malware in my System10. I finally gave up on reading WUWT, closed it out and played Solitaire.
I got by that hiccupping “ad” 2 or 3 times by end-tasking the Adobe Flash Player and/or re-loading IE.
Even the Fox News website has so damn much “jumping”, ”flashing”, “jiggling” ads and “talking videos ads” on the PC display that there is hardly any space left for displaying the “text” of the News article.

Reply to  Samuel C Cogar
November 1, 2016 3:18 pm

Maybe try uBlock Origin or the equivalent. Don’t leave it on indefinitely as it deprives our esteemed host of earnings. I think it might have an immunizing effect for a while. I’m only getting a well-behaved ad for dot blog; “whatever you make, make it yours”.
Hmmm everything I make is unmistakably mine unfortunately.

November 1, 2016 12:00 pm

I watched the movie just to see what sort of bat to take to the next discussion with some local liberals. The interesting part is that Micheal Mann has completely gone off his rocker and is now a full on “conspiracy theorist” come political commentator (he is also being hunted by nasty threatening inferred to be “right wing crazies”). The other interview that was interesting was one he did in India with an Indian eco-loon who stated the case pretty well for why slowing down the rate of electrification is a hard sell in the developing world.

Reply to  fossilsage
November 1, 2016 2:11 pm

I saw the first fifteen minutes, it’s narcisistic and boring. It seems dI Caprio really believes what he says, doesn’t realize it’s way overdone. And incredibly boring.

TA
Reply to  fernandoleanme
November 1, 2016 3:41 pm

“It seems dI Caprio really believes what he says, doesn’t realize it’s way overdone. And incredibly boring.”
I think you are right, DiCaprio does seem to be a true believer, and a pessimistic one at that. And the video *was* incredibly boring.

Brian R
November 1, 2016 12:00 pm

I think what’s even funnier is that Truck Tech on PowerNation beat it by 4 places. Not saying that Truck Tech is nearly as bad as DiCrapio’s dribble, but that a show that is really the antithesis of CGW gets a higher rating.

Bruce Cobb
November 1, 2016 12:30 pm

DeCarpio should write a book. He could call it “Blathering Heights”.

Gamecock
November 1, 2016 12:38 pm

‘Before the Flood came in at #61 for the weekend.’
Good enough for an Emmy!

Big Bear
Reply to  Gamecock
November 1, 2016 3:46 pm

And the Nobel Prize!

Ken in Kelowna
November 1, 2016 12:41 pm

I watched it! The whole thing! It got me thinking that Leo is possibly the stupidest man on the face of the earth…or…this was a very subtle and cleverly construed comedy. Factless, ridiculous, and I hope NatGeo is totally embarrassed for broadcasting this garbage propaganda.

stpaulchuck
Reply to  Ken in Kelowna
November 1, 2016 3:55 pm

NatGeo went to the dark side years ago. Same with the History Channel and several used to be science magazines.

Raul
Reply to  stpaulchuck
November 1, 2016 5:29 pm

I agree totally… haven’t read Scientific American in years and even American Scientist is starting to suck out loud with junk science and alarmist innuendo.

Reply to  Ken in Kelowna
November 1, 2016 4:20 pm

LOL, well said.Why do dumb as bricks actors believe they are as smart as the parts they play???

November 1, 2016 12:52 pm

DiCaprio just needs a better soundtrack. How could he possibly compete with this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lslcw4QKM

Brian R
Reply to  Henry Matusek
November 1, 2016 3:12 pm

Maybe they could speed up the video 2-4 times, play “Yakety Sax” and make it like the Benny Hill show.

stpaulchuck
Reply to  Brian R
November 1, 2016 3:54 pm

LOL

Alan Robertson
November 1, 2016 1:12 pm

Apparently, someone is trying to generate viewership numbers for Leo’s latest, as I just got an offer to rent the movie for free in email, from “fandangonow.com”

rogerthesurf
November 1, 2016 1:44 pm

OMG it is labeled as a “documentary”.
That has to be the greatest misnomer in history!
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com

Reply to  rogerthesurf
November 1, 2016 2:42 pm

Spell Check Alert!
“Doctoredmentory”.
This wasn’t the first.

rogerthesurf
Reply to  Gunga Din
November 1, 2016 9:48 pm

I would have classified as fiction or fantasy:)

November 1, 2016 3:14 pm

Leo will forever be “Bob” from Titanic in my mental image.
http://media.giphy.com/media/YE9A1qSEn0gV2/giphy.gif

November 1, 2016 3:15 pm

Bubble Guppies looks more like a fact based documentary than does DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood’ .

James Fosser
November 1, 2016 3:15 pm

Sitting in a Doctors waiting room yesterday and picked up a 29th October 2016 New Scientist. Expecting to see the words”Climate Change” or ”Global Warming” on every second page, I was surprised that it was actually full of science Never saw ”Global Warming” or ”Climate Change ” anywhere (I was then called in to see doc and no chance to read magazine more closely.

Hyman
November 1, 2016 3:39 pm

I LOVE BUBBLE GUPPIES!!!

November 1, 2016 3:39 pm

LoL.
The warmer’s scam relies on gruber funding.
Should be bankrupt in 6 months.