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

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.

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?

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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Budsbuddy

November 1, 2016 8:13 pm

Al Gore is a scam artist and DiCaprio is an idiot to believe all this garbage! They should both be put in jail, and have all their money confiscated!

Anthony

November 1, 2016 8:22 pm

I am glad that this was another flop by one of hollywoods self professed know-it-alls that wants everyone to do as he says, but not as he does. He is an idiot, and has no clue what he is talking about, and easily lead by the nose, as he sees natural events and then equates them to my dirty car, ironically as he flies over the even in his helicopter. Only in hollywood would this kind of hypocrisy fly.
Since he became a “star”, he has been nothing but a talking head for the left. You can only fill a cup that is empty, and he may well be the most empty cup in hollywood.

xfiler93@hotmail.com

November 1, 2016 8:49 pm

He is the worst at polluting the Earth with carbons.

Gandhi

November 1, 2016 8:55 pm

DeCaprio is good at one thing only – pretending to be someone he is not. That’s what acting is, after all. When he plays himself, there’s just ah ignorant dolt who is a baptized member of the religion of global warming. What a waste of time and energy.

UKExpat

November 1, 2016 9:02 pm

Anyone that believes that the NATURAL PHENOMENON of Climate Change, which has been happening since time began, is affected in any way whatsoever by the MINUTE portion that PUNY MAN adds to the already MINUSCULE atmospheric TRACE Gas that is CO2 is a MORON. There is no Scientific Proof whatsoever for these claims and all the Green NAZIS have got re COMPUTER MODELS and we all know what GIGO means don’t we. They even miscounted the earths trees by HUNDREDS of MILLIONS.

Randi frank

November 1, 2016 9:08 pm

Dickcappreo should stick to his halfass career of “acting”

Winter Isis Berazan (@WinterIsis)

November 1, 2016 9:14 pm

We won’t have to worry long about not driving our cars or using our air conditioning, with the rate the Prog-Libs are allowing 3rd worlders into out country–3rd worlders who are invading not wanting to embrace the American Way–it won’t be long until from sheer numbers they drive us into being a 3rd world country ourselves

Tom O.

November 1, 2016 9:17 pm

Hey Leo, I’m all for saving energy. We really should cut down on activities that create carbon emissions needlessly. Take movies for example. People don’t NEED to go to movies for life to survive. So that makes ALL the fuel used to create the movie, as well as ALL the fuel used by people going to SEE movies, 100% WASTED.
So you, being so concerned about our planet, should take the initiative and QUIT MAKING MOVIES. And please get your holier-than-thou liberal puke Hollywood cohorts to follow suit.

Cold in Wisconsin

November 1, 2016 9:18 pm

I hope he loses Giga-tons of money.

Winter Isis Berazan (@WinterIsis)

November 1, 2016 9:18 pm

I almost forgot. This piece of fear mongering propaganda is available on youtube to view for free, and from what I saw, out of a possible American Population of 300 million only one million have wasted their time, and we don’t know that those were even Americans do we, but what we do know is that of the possible 300 million here, most of us have shown the good sense to give this crap a miss.

docwill121

November 1, 2016 9:30 pm

That’s a big “B.S.(!)” Elon Musk is the one guy worth listening to. The rest are vested-interest, poseur dilettants ..

Jessmae

November 1, 2016 9:31 pm

I just ordered SLING TV and wanted to see some animals on NatGeo, but this worthless democrat propaganda lie was on. Seriously NatGeo? You put on a tv show about a hoax using a mindless horrible actor? What a worthless channel you’ve become. Not much to watch at all on cable. Will stick with Redbox from now on.

Hugh Beaumont

November 1, 2016 9:57 pm

Where do these actors get the odd notion that anyone really takes them seriously?

Amber

November 1, 2016 9:57 pm

The info commercial couldn’t even beat out Comic Book Men . In fairness the Malibu Beach house was apparently up for sale so is some other poor sucker going to get flooded out … in a thousand years ?
He cares about the environment but flies all over the world in kerosene spewing jets . Hmm .
There ain’t no Ghandi here .

Frank Simmons

November 1, 2016 10:08 pm

I have visited Greenland and have seen the foundations of farms, grain storages, and grape vine stumps. That is the day I truly realized that the climate took a sharp cooling curve prior to any industrial effects. Not telling the rest of the story is truly disingenuous.

jasonn13

November 1, 2016 10:17 pm

Another Hollywood high school dropout that doesn’t know his butt from a hot rock and now he’s an authority on climate change? Sheesh.

Mike Herman

November 1, 2016 10:17 pm

Science fiction must not be as popular as it used to be.

tomharrisicsc

November 1, 2016 10:18 pm

The film got OVER 5 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE IN TWO DAYS. I would love to have such a ‘dismal’ rating. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CkXVF-Q8M.

Bitsko 3

Reply to tomharrisicsc

November 1, 2016 10:47 pm

I watched it. It was hilarious.

Bitsko 3

November 1, 2016 10:41 pm

Perhaps it failed because we’re a lot smarter than Hollywood dropouts give us credit for.
NOTHING that Algore predicted in his own Manbearpig movie actually happened. Nothing. He is batting 0.00. Now DeCaprio has rebooted exactly the same B.S. He, too, will miss the mark about as badly as it’s possible to miss it.
Flying all over the world in jets to see how horrible the use of fossil fuels is…..only a Hollywood snowflake could possibly be that stupid and hypocritical.

tomharrisicsc

Reply to Bitsko 3

November 2, 2016 9:42 am

The film got OVER 5 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE IN TWO DAYS. I would love to have such a ‘failure’. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CkXVF-Q8M.

MarkW

Reply to tomharrisicsc

November 2, 2016 10:47 am

And that was just DiCaprio watching himself over and over.

Bitsko 3

November 1, 2016 10:46 pm

There most certainly IS a “greenhouse effect”, and it’s a good thing. Without it we’d be in a helluva fix. But the only meaningful greenhouse gas on Earth is WATER VAPOR.
Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System because of carbon dioxide, mostly, but that’s because it’s atmosphere is over 90% CO2. Ours is about 0.004%. It is utterly insignificant. It has NO measurable effect on the Earth’s temperature.
One number they never talk about is the total amount of “fossil carbon” released by humans as compared to the total carbon in the short-term “carbon cycle.” We have not changed a thing. We’ve added such a tiny fraction of one percent to the cycle that it’s actually funny to claim that it makes a difference.
It is well documented that the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere during the height of the last Pleistocene glacial MAXIMUM was several times higher than it is today. Ice Ages INCREASE CO2 because they kill off so much vegetation. It doesn’t work the other way around.
The Earth’s climate cycles are driven by solar cycles and orbital dynamics. Humans don’t matter. The climate IS changing. It IS warming. It has been doing so, with occasional pauses, for 40,000 years.

Bill Marsh

Editor

Reply to Bitsko 3

November 2, 2016 4:04 am

“Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System because of carbon dioxide, mostly, but that’s because it’s atmosphere is over 90% CO2. ”
Stop with the Venus Earth comparisons. The two are NOT comparable. Beyond roughly similar masses the planets have nothing in common.
Venus:
1) No oceans (most likely never had them although that is debatable). What isn’t debatable is that Venus has had no oceans for at least a billion years (or three).
2) Atmosphere is 90x earth’s.
3) No magnetic field to protect against solar wind streams & galactic cosmic rays
4) a good bit more solar radiation than earth
5) a ‘day’ is 116 earth days long. Any guesses as to what earth’s daytime high temperature would be if the ‘heat of the day’ lasted for two weeks instead of 2-3 hours?
6) No Moon

Patrick MJD

Reply to Bitsko 3

November 2, 2016 4:20 am

“Bitsko 3 November 1, 2016 at 10:46 pm
Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System because of carbon dioxide, mostly, but that’s because it’s atmosphere is over 90% CO2.”
Nothing to do with CO2 and *ALL* to do with mass. Look up the well known gas laws.

Mark Gerrard

November 1, 2016 10:53 pm

He could fart on youtube and probably get more hits proggie! lol.

moderateGuy

November 1, 2016 11:06 pm

I’ve seen Bubble Guppies. They are more serious and make more sense than “global warming” agitprop.

Truthisking

November 2, 2016 12:48 am

Surely there was no discussion abkat the NAOA’s temperature data that was thrown out (atmospheric data showing we aren’t warming). Instead they used local land baseball evidence which is distorted due to the effect of concrete asphalt has on showing incorrect higher temperatures. When asked why they ignored what all scientists agree as the most accurate reading, the NOAA refused to comment. Why? *
It doesn’t fit their prolongda narrative. Guys like Leo should be ashamed. -at least know both sides of the arguments and present I objectively. But, that would take critical thinking from a Hollywood loon. What a joke. And isn’t the East Coast supposed to be underwater already? And how has the ice in the North Pole INCREASED by 60% since its low point in 2012? Another inconvenient truth?

MindWarrior

November 2, 2016 12:59 am

Does DiCaprio think an Academy Award makes his spiel believable?

Don L

November 2, 2016 1:17 am

I laughed until I cried when the TV ad showed a fully active calving glacier (caused only by severe cold ice building up its weight) as evidence of global warming. This is the same stupidity, as most sixth grade students know, that Al Gore loved to highlight in his silly propaganda movie.

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