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”.
“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain
Another actor disappoints.
Knew news ?
Insanity as compared to what, Bob? The full-on type that characterizes every EU nation that pays lip service to lowering their carbon footprints yet continues to push out the date to meet their goals, while increasing their carbon footprints?
Dear, dear Bob stick to acting.
Robert De Niro is suffering temporary insanity
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Where are the useful idiots in Hollywood for Chavez and Maduro now?
It’s a new ride sharing company called Rent-a-Dope.
deniro is currently trying to undermine cooperative self rule on hurricane ravaged barbuda and replace it with new developer friendly laws from antigua in order to build a resort for his 1% friends
following in dicaprios footsteps , who is building his mega eco resort on previously undeveloped black adder cay in belize ( which will be utterly destroyed in 30 years if sea level rise predictions by the IPCC come true ) .
Don’t be fooled. This is NYC cocktail party back scratching among friends. You say stupid things for me and I’ll do you a favor tomorrow.
Frankly I think you being a bit hard on De Niro, that is one hell of a long swim from the USA to Dubai , and so you can understand how tired and cranky he been when he got there . For I am sure he never took his ‘evil fossil fuelled ‘ private jet out and there and stayed in five star hotels which can only keep themselves nice and cool the ‘desert’ by using lots of power from ‘evil fossil fuels’
Although to be fair if they did then given this country’s vast wealth , which meant he had such hotels to stay in and allowed this conference to be held in the first place, came of the back of ‘evil fossil fuels, so at least they had easy access to them.
But it is odd how these events can never take place in rather less splendid surroundings, and how ‘environmental’ events depend the existence of five star hotels and places to land private jets .
It’s Cafeteria Food-Fight Rules
The main idea is to create a wild scene, a riot; with a secondary objective being to make it look like ‘the other guys’ [us] started it, or at least were ‘obviously’ right in there, in the thick of it.
We know how to win this game. When a french-fry goes flying by, put your hands down in your lap, or sit on them. When people start shouting, zip your lip. If you join-in instead, those who started, win. If you decline to join them in their behavior, you stand a chance of coming out the winner.
Don’t get sucked into the name-calling. Don’t reach for the more-clever insult.
Let De Niro & Co own it. When we ‘come back’ with more (and hopefully ‘better’), we have accepted the Hollywood veteran as our leader.
It’s BAIT, people. Don’t bite on it!
Wrong. The answer is to quietly but firmly blockade any cinema where his film is showing unless the person can prove they did not drive to the cinema.
Using Freedom of Speech to shout-down others is an abuse of it, and ultimately will damage it, for all. Got Senator Elizabeth Warren ‘forcibly de-micced’, on the Senate floor.
Similarly abusing Assembly to target others or their businesses is closely related to stalking. Half a step removed from “Flash Mobs” coordinating with cellphones to overwhelm and neutralize.
Using Assembly to actually-blockade is actively addressed by law enforcement; gets you crammed into the paddy-wagon.
Cf, the Right-to-Lifers attempting to “blockade” abortion-clinics. You can make them ‘run the gauntlet’ (and scream “Baby killer!” at them as they scurry by), but you can’t actually “prevent” them from Coming or Going. The cops are watching.
And then there’s good-ol’ Mother Reality. You would be doing impressively well to put a half-decent little protest-group out in front of a single theater, much less – ‘yeah right’ – blockade the 100s or 1,000s at which a De Niro movie is scheduled.
Your heart might be in the right place but … ‘needs (substantial) work’. 😉
Across our nation, Freedom of Speech us under attack, especially on college campuses. Left leaning ideologists are demanding that certain words and phrases must not be uttered to protect the ‘feelings’ of certain groups and individuals. They call such words hate speech, and demand that those who use such words should be punished under the law.
These same people, however, are largely the ones suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, which is characterized by a perverse expression of hatred towards the President in particular, and the people who voted for him in general. It might be interesting take some of the phrases used for Trump and his supporters, and replace the subject of each sentence with a women, minority or transgender group or individual. Then again, the exercise might be completely lost on the left.
I for one, completely support Robert De Niro’s right to say that we are insane in front of the whole world. I do not wish to restrict his speech than I would wish anyone to restrict mine.
I would restrict his right to say it without giving equal publicity to the right to reply. Why can public figures like Prince Charles and not very bright actors get headlines for calling people like myself headless chickens but me not have the right to point out with equal coverage that his statement is based on the out of touch situation of the over wealthy over privileged and under technologically educated.
Actors are used to delivering their lines with outrageous statements with no consequence except at the box office. But he should know there is a difference between acting and defaming his country to a foreign audience. Can I start a sentence with but?
Some of us hate that but since you have done so the answer has to be that since it has happened in the real world you can, even if the theoretical situation says you cannot. Perhaps there is a lesson for climate scientists in the.
Why is there no edit facility as I accidentally hit return before I could correct it to this?
[Correct what “it” to what “this” ?? 8<) ..mod]
The Mexican kid who mows De Niro’s grass knows more about climate than De Niro. But probably De Niro thinks the kid is a climate refugee….
So De Niro tells people in Dubai that America is a backward country? The United Arab Emirates were basically a sand dune before oil was discovered using American technology that made it prosperous.
If the UAE were to take De Niro’s advice and stop producing oil in the name of avoiding global warming, the UAE would become a “backward” country. Could the UAE feed the population in all those skyscrapers using fish from the Persian Gulf?
it’s difficult for me to put into words the amount of respect I have for the scientific musings of an actor ruminating on science he clearly has no grasp of.
Give De Niro a break. He’s an actor. He’s spent his whole life pretending to be someone else. After 45 years of pretending to be someone else, performing roles that were purely the imagination of someone else, I too might have problems connecting to reality. These people are trained to convince you that fairy tales “can come true, that it could happen to you”. Their job is to do that without embarrassment, without their face turning red, without apology. They become the person in the role to the extent I bet they could fool a lie detector – because he convinces himself he is the person he is supposed to be portraying.
So he doesn’t know it’s not snowing in Alaska, or that there may be snow in all 50 states of the US. He can’t see that inside a Universal Studio in Burbank, or from inside his house in Beverly Hills. To him it is reality, because that is what his script says.
Possibly the only mistake on climate change was in cutting the research. It should have been redirected to projects that had as their aim the fault finding with the existing research and funding directed to institutions with practical skills in data collection and also data analysis to fault the nature and quality of the climate scientist’s idea of normal climate.
Since they set the bar so high at “beyond question” when they pushed global warming on the gullible, media obsessed, world any hint of a question on the infallibility of the science faults should be highly publicised as justification for treating climate change as a scam.
Perhaps also Trump should have a list drawn up of all items headlined in the media world wide that have been proved untrue and put the upon the web for inspection prior to all conferences on climate or following all conferences where climate was raised as an issue.
kaliforniakook has the media supporters of climate change action summed up perfectly.
I agree, David! Defunding the old AGW “science” without redirecting resources to new objective research in the field is like hibernating a frog in a river bed by draining the water. You may think the frog is dead, but it will come back to live once water starts flowing again under a new management … 🙂
Stay in your lane, Robert…stay in your lane…
His face shows all the tell tale signs of him being alcoholic….reddish bulbous nose and his aggression, agitation, compulsive behavior, lack of restraint and general discontent are all signs the guy is living inside the bottle and probably has been for his entire career. This is the same guy who threatened to punch Trump in the face. He is basically out of control and may do harm to others. An intervention may be needed.
Gosh, wasn’t he one of the Hollywood big shots accused of sexual harassment?
I just hope that people start making a distinction between empty-headed celebrities and real science. It’s insane to even consider taking seriously the opinions of high-school dropouts about physical issues that require advance science degrees to understand …
Deniro just lost an admirer of his acting talent, I am from this time forward will not watch or go to movie or rent one in which he participates