Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon; Actor Robert De Niro speaking at the Dubai World Government Summit stated “We don’t like to say we are a ‘backward’ country”, and accused the USA of suffering “temporary insanity” on climate change.
De Niro: US suffering from ‘temporary insanity’ on climate change
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY – 02/11/18 12:15 PM EST
Actor Robert De Niro said the U.S. was suffering from “temporary insanity” on climate change, adding the country would eventually be cured when it votes out its “dangerous leader.”
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He cited comments from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt that cast doubt on whether global warming is harmful to humans.
“I am talking about my own country, the United States of America. We don’t like to say we are a ‘backward’ country so let’s just say we’re suffering from a case of temporary insanity,” he said at Dubai’s World Government Summit.He added that the U.S. would “eventually cure itself by voting our dangerous leader” out of the White House, meaning President Trump.
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The Dubai World Government Summit is described on its webpage as … an international knowledge exchange platform at the intersection of government, futurism, technology and innovation. Each year, government officials, policy-makers, thought leaders, and private sector trailblazers come together to explore the future of government in the coming decades led by the advancements of mankind. …
De Niro’s apparent contempt for the USA is maybe something to think about next time you are considering paying your hard-earned to see a Robert De Niro movie. The star actor seems to think the USA is “backward”.
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Scott Pruit understands real climate, the nature of the promotion to control people (for their own good), heads up an important agency and has the courage to resist the mob.
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De Niro is deluded, still living as a screen character. Somebody should make him an offer he can’t refuse.
https://youtu.be/fmX2VzsB25s
If De Niro were a citizen of any of the other countries represented at this summit and said the same thing about its president, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t let him back home or at least hassle him when he got home.
Why would anyone pay attention to an Actor when he advises them on the problems or benefits of Climate?
The things that an Actor does, are memorise his lines and pretend to be someone that he is not, in this case, a Climate Scientist. Nevertheless, he is quite correct in saying that the USA is suffering “temporary insanity” on Climate Change. Most paid Climate Scientists and the devoted followers of the Climate Modellers are clearly off their trolley and refuse to look at data, reason and history. Yet the Climate continues to change as it always has.
“Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”
Very sad to see the decline of such a great talent.
‘de Niro burns, while Pruitt fiddles….’
Details to follow…. Film at 11!
Adequate actor. Halfwit.
Seems 97% of actors are halfwits.
Ronald Reagan was at best a ‘B’ list actor…therefore, a poor (not in the financial sense) actor.
And a member of the 3%…
All actors started out as ‘B’ actors until they got their break.
I’ve read that if Bogy had turned down Casablanca, Reagan was their second choice.
The notion that an actors opinion counts for anything in a climate science debate is laughable. Just shows vividly the politicization. And they are too virtue signaling unaware to realize the absurdity of it all.
But for sentient beings, a proven fail.
“The notion that a lawyer’s opinion counts for anything in a climate science debate is laughable. Just shows vividly the politicization.
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Think glass houses.”
The, “I know you are but what am I” argument?
And there’s the obvious fact that lawyers are trained in critical thinking, whereas actors (evidence De Niro) are not.
But that’s a nice ad hominem Rob…btw…are you an actor by chance?
Rud is one of the more knowledgeable posters on this website. You should be asking his opinion instead of attacking his character.
Reflections in a mirror are not “ad hominems”
Then you’re argument is that actors are a mirror image of lawyers, or that perhaps the reverse is true, Rob? Do tell? Can you elaborate?
Oh, and sy computing, one does not have to go to law school to learn critical thinking. One can learn it by attending the School of Hard Knox.
Did you have an afterthought Rob? Nice! 🙂 Just joking around with you, naturally…
Of course “one does not have to go to law school to learn critical thinking”. One can learn it elsewhere, e.g., from books and what-not, however, I’m curious how one learns logic and critical thinking from your school, i.e., “Hard Knox”?
Is that what De Niro did Rob? Did he learn how to evaluate arguments from that school? What exactly did the “School of Hard Knox” teach him about logic, critical thinking, and climate science, Rob?
I would argue that whatever he may have learnt, he very quickly has forgotten in his State of Hate for a man that lives rent-free in his head. Moreover, I suspect that man doesn’t give him a second thought at any part of the day, in which case, it’s not to difficult to ascertain who is bettered by whom…or?
And if De Niro is bettered by his betters, what then do we say about your “School of Hard Knox”?
What say you?
🙂
“TA, I am not attacking his “character” I’m pointing out to him that he ought not to throw stones while living in a glass house.”
I guess what confuses me about your attitude towards Rud, is I don’t recall Rud ever throwing stones at you, so I don’t understand the animosity you display towards him.
I think Rud has been unfairly accused.
“What say you?”……I say you have no clue regarding De Niro.
Tell us of the hours, days, weeks, months, that De Niro has spent researching/learning about potential inputs to climate changes. Give us a clue. Mebbe, during the100 hours he spent on sitting on a plane last year (contributing to that which he thinks is destroying the world), he was doing nothing but studying up, doing his own reading/research with respect climate variations & variables; if he was, then he might have put in about half the time of the typical poster on this site.
Give me clue about De Niro. Just a tidbit. I personally think he’s a bit of a nut, and as his inhibitions fade with age it will start show. Tell me I’m wrong.
Hey Spike, tell us about life
It doesn’t seem to me Rud was insulted, so much as cautioned . .
*The notion that an actors opinion necessarily counts for anything in a climate science debate is laughable.*
See how that avoids the . . insult to all actors aspect?
“I am talking about my own country, the United States of America. We don’t like to say we are a ‘backward’ country” As Paul Harvey said “Not all that we call progress is progress”.
When you’re a step away from the cliff, the direction of progress is backwards.
“We” he says. He must have taken a poll to decide he can speak for the general population. Maybe in real life he is as arrogant as the characters he always seems to portray.
De Niro dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue acting. He does know enough math to understand data collection and analysis.
So says the inspiration for John Hinckley. Shut up Travis Bickle.
Great wisdom from a high school dropout.
What’s more than a bit temporarily insane is the perverse culture of petty ‘celeb’ blowhards talking about something other than their acting (like anyone cares), or their latest 3-months from a discount bargain-bin, movie release.
And what’s wrong with the audience(s) at these things?
Do they actually think it is acceptable for poncing ‘celeb’ blowhards to be opening their mouth to a topic where theit expertise is non-existent? Or that it is a mere political attack? Is this what they paid to attend for?
Now there’s some * permanent * insanity.
Come to Dubai, feel smug, talk rubbish, garner accolades for being a know-nothing, pretend you’re not a sock-puppet who reads someone elses’ scripts for a living.
Throw fruit. Throw pastries. Tell them to get off.
But don’t just sit thete and put up with it, these celebs are out of lline, they disrespect everyone in the audience, usurp the lime light to make the event all about them, just to ease their inferiority and endemic shallowness, and turn it into a petty self-promotion.
There’s the crux of this endemic cultural insanity. He knows that he can usurp and misappropriate social power, and take away other people’s authority to give themselves permission to think for themselves, via talking drivel and asserting that he’s obviously better suited and positioned to think and speak for them. It’s OK, trudt me … just like any other cheap confidence-trickster.
Because, being an actor, he knows an audience will actually let him do that, shape their reallity, if he can play and schmooze them just right, and manipulate the situation to perfectiion to appear ‘Presidential’ and not just another stuffed shirt, thus to seem irresistably a ‘somebody’ of greater value than they.
i.e. an ‘elite’ … stuffed skirt, or dress, elite.
And it works, audiences really are that easily swayed by fake charisma from actors and their scripts and phoney fluff.
How do you get over stage fright?
Just imagine the audience is naked.
Well how does the audience get over actor BS?
Imagine they are all naked … because they are.
Filed under:
“Mummy, mummy! … Look at me!”
Ask yourself these questions. Given that some people are better with words than numbers and some are better with numbers than words, what kind of people are more likely to be successful Actors Journalists and Politicians and what kind of people are more likely to be successful business people and scientists? Is understanding climatology primarily a numbers skill or a word skill? Who is more likely going to be better able to communicate climatology to the masses, the word people or the numbers people? Now do the same exercise with emotions and reason. Some people operate more in the emotional realm and some lean more to the rational realm. Again, Who makes the better Actors, journalists and politician and who makes the better scientist. Who is better able to sell their position?
Your point eludes me, Joel.
Who will make for a meaningful debate?
Who will make better decisions?
Who will take responsibility?
Who will stick to the knowns?
Are you arguing the actor guy is a guy you want in the loop? … to do what, exactly?
Is public policy just a style over substance exercise best addressed by actors and sudiences with hightened ’emotional intelligence’?
Your point eludes me, were you just generalising on the dynamics of actors in crowds? Or were you really defending that actor’s role and place in all this?
Are his remarks part of his purported better emotional connection and suitability for the AGW public communucations package, too?
Seems a bit of a reach.
Joel,
Your comment title could be called,
“Why the UN chose a HS dropout Hollywood actor to their Climate spokesman.”
Cheers,
– Just another Joel.
Dr. De Niro appears to have similar scientific qualifications as his hero, professor Al Gore.
Doubt he slept in a Holiday Inn the night before…
[Technically, one’s experiece only comes after sleeping in the Holiday Inn Expertise the night before…. .mod]
I can’t imagine an ego like Deniro’s ever sleeping in a Holiday Inn Express.
“Actor, play thyself!”
“Sorry, I’ve never played that part. Do you have a script?”
“Actor, play thyself!”
see Taxi
It is good to see the warmists down to spokesmen like this guy. It aint over till it’s over but i think this thing is won. Congrats to wuwt and to all on this side of the fight.
Actors are nothing without directors and a script. Which means they are but tools. Who is wielding this not so sharp tool?
De Niro should worry about his contribution to our lost, broken down, violent culture. He’s been phoning it in since Raging Bull. If he has something to say try facts instead of demagoguery.
Another actor who’s emotions Trump his rational thought.
“Another actor who’s emotions Trump his rational thought.”
Well played…
Where did the energy go that is ‘missing’ from notches in TOA graphs of radiation flux?
http://i66.tinypic.com/30t79dy.jpg%5B/IMG
I – YI. Intellectual – Yet Idiot. Opps, forget the intellectual part.
And clearly, De Niro is suffering from permanent insanity.
A quite long, but very interesting article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11185619/Why-do-we-treat-celebrities-as-experts-on-subjects-that-really-matter.html