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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John Johnston

November 2, 2016 1:23 am

1. The sun = 99.9% of the mass of our solar system.
2. The sun’s output fluctuates.
3. Hence climate change.
it is that simple. Keeping earth clean and wholesome is a different issue. Unfortunately duped alarmists blend the two…

dsaad99

November 2, 2016 1:26 am

Leonardo DiCaprio is making me sick with all of his hype about global climate change and his commercials pushing the “Flood” fake docudrama. After filming each segment he hops in his private jet and is off to his next scheduled fake tour and alarmist news blast.
What a hypocrite. I wish there was a way to charge him for all of the damage to the environment he has caused .

Dimitri Sims

November 2, 2016 2:02 am

Great. Another famous person turned to the dark side.

James Johnson

November 2, 2016 2:15 am

Leo DiCaprio…. I think that translates to Lion Goat, or Lying Goat

Fin

November 2, 2016 2:39 am

DiCaprio’s dismal lack of formal education constantly sees him acting out causes which are way beyond his ken, as if he hopes his audiences will mistakenly think he understands science. It’s an act.

Golden Rudy

November 2, 2016 3:12 am

Is that a pic of Obama inviting leo to come meet with Reggie Love in the basement gym/”bathhouse”?

goksrm

November 2, 2016 3:39 am

This unfortunately is about global control that people are starting to understand. If they really wanted to have an effect on future carbon reduction, it could be addressed as clean energy that can be sustainable that would benefit everyone. People will make their own energy decisions and not have some government bureaucrat running your life. Today’s down your throat science is conscience science and not real science. I’m no expert. Tweet Judith Curry.

Alix Smith

November 2, 2016 3:43 am

A few years into Obama’s Presidency he had passed a major bill that he didn’t think would be passed so Rahm Emmanuel turns to him and says (on open mic-doubt if they realized it) something to the effect about what legislation was next. Obama replied “global warming, and Rahm says “Wow, that’s going to bring in Billions” and Obama replied (with a huge grin on his face), “Not Billions, Trillions”! Which proves that global warming is all about lining their pockets (with kickbacks, etc.) with hard earned tax payers dollars!

esp0661

November 2, 2016 4:02 am

Elitist snob politicians and overpaid, irrelevant, and often intellectually dim actors love telling the rest of us how to live while they live lavishly and give up nothing. Had entertainers not been incredibly good Looking, most would live lives of no note and live modestly. Because they are blessed with good looks they think their IQ goes up, well it doesn’t. They should just shut up and act. As for politicians, they are jerks who are sleazy and get rich from their nice little exemption from insider trading laws. They don’t rub elbows with the “unclean masses” as they consider average taxpayers to be. Only at election time do they put on a feigned face of concern. I hope Trump drains the swamp in DC. He knows this global warming farce is about one thing: redistribution of wealth for the new world order.

Raymond A. Collier

November 2, 2016 4:16 am

The average person is getting sick and tired of being aggravated, preached to, and otherwise bothered by Leonardo DiCaprio lecturing about “Global Warming,” “Climate Change,” or whatever term they are now calling it. Leonardo DiCaprio struts around the World and talks about nothing else than this all the time. Leonardo DiCaprio is a hypocrite! There, I said it. Leonardo DiCaprio goes around the World, being flown in a chartered private jet and being driven around in a chauffeured-driven limousine putting out and producing a massive carbon footprint in the process. He lectures that people should be making every effort to reduce greenhouse gases and their carbon footprint, while he’s committing the very same crime. Then, he gets back in his chauffeured-driven limousine, being driven back to the airport and gets back on the chartered private jet and being flown back to his elegant and spacious mansion(s). While he’s jetting around the World, those ever same mansions are being air conditioned with central air and heating causing an even larger and massive carbon footprint in the process. Leonardo DiCaprio IS NOT the only celebrity that is guilty of this. There are far too many of them that are equally as guilty! That includes former Vice-President Al “I invented The Internet” Gore. GOD! How I truly wish for a Zombie Apocalypse!

Patrick MJD

Reply to Raymond A. Collier

November 2, 2016 5:43 am

Zombie apocalypse? It’s right here, right now. Ever travel/walk in a busy city like Sydney, Australia? All I see is people gawping in to a mobile “smart” phone with gay abandon. Walking, I stop, and when they crash in to me, and bounce off, they look at me in disgust. At least am watching where I am going. Maybe driver less cars are a good thing in the future.

Benjamin Eaton

November 2, 2016 4:33 am

DiCaprio is a play actor who gets paid big bucks no matter how lousy his product “performs”. If he were working a real job where results mattered, he’d have been fired and starved long ago. His pseudo job is one of the few where you buy the product and can never make a return, i.e. you’re just stuck paying the price.
Besides never having had a real product oriented job, he’s been duped by his own personal overlords and thinks of himself as some mega mind whose thoughts are far above his viewing public. He’s just another “loaf” circling the bowl having heard that flushing sound.

MoreFreedom

November 2, 2016 5:02 am

Seems like DeCaprio is making the film for the control freaks in government who want to restrict and tax our energy use more. It will look really stupid in about 20 years when the Sun cools, the ice sheets start expanding, and the crops start failing. Then scientists will tell us that government needs to tax us, so they can release more CO2 into the atmosphere to warm the planet.
You know, the guys in the 70s who warned about the coming Ice Age. Except this time, it’s scientists researching the sun whose models are now the best predictors of solar activity, and the energy it beams to the earth who are predicting another Mauder minimum at a minimum.

November 2, 2016 5:15 am

From the Leonardo Wikipedia page:
“However, he dropped out of high school following his third year, eventually earning his general equivalency diploma (GED).”
Why the hell would I listen to this guy? Networking skills? Good memory? He should just go count his millions and leave the thinking to people with education; what a jackass.

Yerusalyim

November 2, 2016 5:19 am

Dear Leo, I enjoy your acting but no one cares what you think about Climate Change…especially when you fly around on private jets to preach your religion. Limousine Liberals who preach about what the rest of us should do while they are out doing the opposite really don’t ring a bell. Besides, we’re as intelligent as you…and many of us reject the idea that humans have a significant impact on the climate and look instead at that great big round yellow ball in the sky as having much more of an impact.

Mad Mac

November 2, 2016 5:41 am

Kiddie Tax is the answer. There are too many people. Tax women for having children. First one is free. After that a progressive world-wide tax. If a carbon tax will work, this will work.
Two hundred years ago, there were only one billion people on our planet. One hundred years ago there were two billion. Now we have more than seven billion. Whether global warming is true or not, overpopulation is ruining the Earth.
We have wrong headedly incentivized having children by providing welfare and tax exemptions. Stop those programs immediately and begin imposing a child tax.

mldocgibbs

November 2, 2016 6:01 am

And we’re supposed to believe that the GREATEST THREAT to humanity is Global Warming. That’s according to our president. Man-made Global Warming is a warm alright, a warm stinky pile of poop.

Joe Bastardi

November 2, 2016 6:03 am

Shouldnt this be about pre-NOAH times since we had the flood and God said he would never do it again. Oops my bad, throw out scripture cause DiCaprio in his world and those that put him up to this stuff know better than God ( heck may not even believe in Him) But neanderthals like me do
Nothing new under the sun, we just get a chance to watch it closely now

Ice Star

November 2, 2016 6:08 am

I really don’t care what any of the ruling elite have to say. Until they live the way they want ME to live I will ignore them.
I am sick of puffed up, self important, ignorant people telling me their stupid lies..

Jana O'Brien

November 2, 2016 6:15 am

The bonehead who left this credible review can’t even spell DiCaprio. Yea. Real impressed. I saw Before the Flood, and was impressed. The person who left this review likely doesn’t believe in the problem either.

teddynovak

November 2, 2016 6:20 am

Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid. Sheep, lemmings, and Leftists are easily manipulated.
http://www.zazzle.com/firstprinciples?rf=238518351914519699

William Hudson

November 2, 2016 6:25 am

I have been a subscriber and member of National Geographic for 52 years, but this – over the top – baloney has brought me to end the relationship. Goodbye NatGeo and your settled science BS. Good riddance.

David Witheld

November 2, 2016 6:35 am

I pretty much make it my policy to not give a sh1t what people who read the lines written by others think. This is a good example of why I am right.

eramthgin

November 2, 2016 6:39 am

When will people wise up. Who is going to accept their view of reality when they are where they are by playing make believe.

Chris

November 2, 2016 6:41 am

This is absurd propaganda. The movie was moving and beautifully done, with facts and experts consulted throughout. Perhaps the low ratings were because it only aired on the National Geographic Channel? Te science does NOT lie on this issue. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Please stop spreading misinformation.

Global Citizen

Reply to Chris

November 6, 2016 9:56 pm

Lol-good luck with that-big hypocrite Leo DiCapandTrade and the junk science he propagates.

MLL

Reply to Chris

November 9, 2016 7:14 am

I agree with you, Chris.

kimdi01

November 2, 2016 6:41 am

Did they all buy tons of Tesla and solar energy stocks hoping that their scare tactics, without any facts to back them up, would make them rich?

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