Yes, this Dicaprio, ~ctm
From The Mail Online
By Rebecca Lawrence For Mailonline
Published: 04:29 EST, 21 December 2018 | Updated: 04:31 EST, 21 December 2018
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s eponymous foundation has now raised $100 million towards helping the fight against climate change.
The actor, 44, set up the charity in 1998 to promote environmental awareness and throws several fundraising events a year, including an annual star-studded gala.
Over the past two decades he has supported over 200 environmentally focused projects, in their mission to support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.
Fantastic fundraiser: Leonardo DiCaprio’s eponymous foundation has now raised $100 million towards helping the fight against climate change
Leonardo was recently honoured at the charity’s 20th anniversary event – a gala that was attended by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres.
Taking to the stage, the Oscar-winning actor announced that there would be $11 million worth of new funding – taking the charity’s contribution past the $100 million mark.
A statement on the foundation’s website read: ‘When I founded LDF 20 years ago, I did so based on the simple idea that we could make a real difference by directly funding some of the most effective environmental projects.
Money maker: The actor, 44, set up the charity in 1998 to promote environmental awareness and throws several fundraising events a year, including an annual star-studded gala
‘Whether it be individuals, grassroots movements or major nonprofits, we wanted to focus on getting critical funding to those who could have the greatest impact.
‘We are extremely proud to celebrate 20 years of this model. Since 1998, we have supported over 200 projects on every continent and in every ocean from habitat and species conservation, renewable energy, climate change, indigenous rights, and more.
HT/Cam_S
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Hang on – his ‘charity” has donated over 100 million dollars of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. it didn’t donate Leo’s money. He just got others to give and then claimed virtue by giving THEIR money away. No wonder he supports big government solutions – it’s what he does.
The headline reads like di Caprio hisself donated 100 million – I knew that had to be BS because he spends money on himself and on his CO2 fuelled luxury travel.
Notice these “caring, concerned people” NEVER USE THEIR OWN MONEY for any of this. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s money. Somehow, I call “liar” on anyone who has a charitable foundation as caring for anything other than themselves, unless they donate huge amounts to their own charities and take no tax breaks for the donations. Donating other people’s cash is NOT caring. It’s self-serving, egotistical grandstanding and should be called out as such. DeCaprio cares about DeCaprio, NOTHING else.
(Al Gore LOVED that oil money when he sold his TV station. Complete lying, hypocrite.)
Probably what he spent on fuel for this.
https://moneyinc.com/leonard-dicaprios-yacht/
I figure that as long as I maintain a carbon footprint smaller than that of Leo Di Caprio, I am a superior human being.
Plants of the world disagree.
Leonardo should spend some of that $100 on an effort to find out if there is any evidence that CAGW is real. If he finds any, please let us know here at WUWT.
Meanwhile, funding climate change projects before finding out if they are really needed is putting the cart before the horse.
Tom wrote:
“Leonardo should spend some of that $100 (million) on an effort to find out if there is any evidence that CAGW is real. ”
Tom – CAGW is NOT real – climate change is largely natural and irregularly cyclical. Despite rapidly increasing fossil fuel combustion, global COOLING occurred from about 1945 to 1977. That is sufficient evidence to disprove the CAGW hypothesis.
And the world probably going to COOL again, soon, as I (we) predicted in 2002.
There! We saved Leo all that money. Maybe he can buy another private jet.
Environmentalists are so phony. They claim only they care about the planet but don’t have a clue how it works.
Earth is a dynamic world. It changes. Constantly. The continents move. The weather patterns adjust. It goes into and out of tens-of-millions-of years-long ice ages. And it’s ecosphere is also dynamic. Species live, die, go extinct, new ones taking their place. Without that dynamism, there are no changes to adapt to, therefore no evolution. No life.
But environmentalists hate… absolutely HATE… change. In their ignorance, they think the planet should never change. No species should ever die out, yet should never expand their ranges, while climate and habitats can never change, etc. An undynamic world. A stagnant world. A dead world.
“The actor, 44, set up the charity in 1998…”
1998: exactly the year when the pause began!
An accident? I DON”T THINK SO!!! :-D/spoof — as if that were necessary.
Fools and their money…
Rename the charity the White Star Line since it has about as much competency and merit and all the catering to the affluent and their effluent.
It’s his money, and he can do with it as he pleases.
It’s just a shame that he did want to use it to help people.
“didn’t want”
Sorry, now where’s that cup of coffee?
His “generosity” reminds me of another fact. The tremendous sums that Greens and green-leaning governments have basically wasted on renewables and CO2 -chasing Carbon taxes would have been much better spent convening “a meeting of the minds” about LENR. The Electric Sun people are finally coming to grips with the fact that the Sun’s photo-sphere is not a nuclear furnace, but rather a controlled plasma (ions stripped of their electrons).
I (an “engineer”) am mightily impressed by the progress made with less than Caprio’s air flight expenses in studying plasmas in a laboratory here on Earth in the SAFIRE project. Perhaps some of you might agree with their conclusion that transmutation has occurred in a contained (NON-Tokamak) plasma without huge magnets. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d3pB27UZKI
YEP- A paradigm shift . They are too blind to see what lies right before their eyes.
Leo wakes up every night screaming: “The Chinooks got me! The Chinooks got me!” 🙂
LEONARDO DICAPRIO MOCKED FOR FEAR OVER WARM CALGARY CHINOOKS
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/leonardo-dicaprio-mocked-for-fear-over-warm-calgary-chinooks-1.2694552
CALGARY — Some experts are taking issue — and Twitter is snickering — over actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent comments about having seen the “terrifying” effects of climate change while in Alberta filming his new feature “The Revenant.”
In an issue of Vanity Fair, DiCaprio was quoted as telling an industry audience that while in Calgary, “there would be eight feet of snow and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.”
DiCaprio, widely known as an environmental activist and philanthropist, said he was told by locals “this has never happened in our province ever.”
But environmental science professor Gwen O’Sullivan of Mount Royal University said DiCaprio has obviously never heard of a Chinook, a common and natural occurrence for the city east of the Rocky Mountains.
She said when Chinook winds develop, which they do between 15 and 25 times a winter around Calgary, it’s not uncommon for a foot of snow to disappear in just a day.
Hollywood success is based primarily upon looks, connections and willingness to do anything, no matter how disgusting, to get ahead. Consider Harvey Weinstein’s playthings and all the other human flesh users we have come to learn about in tinseltown. And all of the willing “victims” as well. If there is a more morally bankrupt place on earth I’m not sure where it might be. Perhaps Washington DC? Las Vegas?
I don’t think that is where the Congress resides.
Not since Clinton left office.
Well ain’t that nice of Leonardo di Cabrio?
Then again I guess that playing a dude drowning in the ocean left him all scared.
‘Leonardo DiCaprio‘s eponymous foundation has now raised $100 million towards helping the fight against climate change.
Over the past two decades he has supported over 200 environmentally focused projects, in their mission to support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction’
Fight climate change means innovative projects?
‘while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.’
Ecosystems are not balanced. Biology 101.
There is a significant disconnect there. One wonders if Leonardo wrote that himself, or if the reporter tried to make the connection between what Leonardo said was happening, and what the money was spent on.
One or both confused by the looks.
Why doesn’t Nancy Pelosi simply ban climate change in the first legislation?
” . . . foundation has now raised $100 million . . .”
Did the money come out of his own pocket?
Or, (think Clinton Foundation) did patsies donate their hard-earned money to go into the pocket of this already-rich talent-free hood-ornament?
Let’s Fight Chinooks Together!
I dare say when he gets cancer he will wish he had put his efforts into researching that.
I love Leonardo DiCaprio’s and I am a fan of him. Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation has a good cause. appreciated.
I trust you have given him your money to waste.
I have daydreamed of the possibility of saving the world from people who are trying (the wrong way) to save the world, if I won some lottery. I wonder if it were possible and if so how much money it would take.
Kinda curious how much of the fund raised went into Decaprio’s pockets.
And ALL of the publicity went to Decaprio’s pocketbooks as well!
Just think what a hundred million could have done for a worthwhile charity that actually did something to solve a real problem.
But I guess it’s more important to stroke that warm fuzzy.