DiCaprio: “I have a foundation for 20 years. I have to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders make some pretty big commitments, but just like in this movie, there’s a ticking clock. I think there is a global sense of anxiety that the powers that be, the private sector, the governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine year window.” … “Our governments, the governments of the world, must work together as a community species and we must evolve as a species to address this problem.”
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By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
January 19, 2022
Excerpt:
In an interview with dead line, DiCaprio spoke about his career as an actor and environmental activist, since many already know that one of his great concerns is the future of the planet, as he announced in his Oscar acceptance speech in 2016, after winning in the category Best Actor for Revenant.
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DiCaprio: “I have had two great passions in my life. That has been taking action, and protecting the natural world and spreading the message about the climate crisis. I have a foundation for 20 years. I have to go to Glasgow. I got to see world leaders make some pretty big commitments, but just like in this movie, there’s a ticking clock. I think there is a global sense of anxiety that the powers that be, the private sector, the governments, are not making the transition fast enough. We literally have a nine year window.”
“And there was also, you know, a period of time where people and consumers were forced to recycle and buy hybrid cars and make changes in their own lives, which is incredibly important. But when you really start to break this down, there are 100 companies that produce 70 percent of the world’s emissions. There are massive industries that are polluting our atmosphere, and the private sector needs to step up. Our governments, the governments of the world, must work together as a community species and we must evolve as a species to address this problem.”
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Related:
Climate Tipping Points date back to at least 1864
“As early as 1864 George Perkins Marsh, sometimes said to be the father of American ecology, warned that the earth was ‘fast becoming an unfit home for its “noblest inhabitant,”’ and that unless men changed their ways it would be reduced ‘to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.’” —MIT professor Leo Marx
Earth “Serially Doomed”
Perhaps the best summary of the tipping-point phenomenon comes from UK scientist Philip Stott. “In essence, the Earth has been given a 10-year survival warning regularly for the last fifty or so years. We have been serially doomed,” Stott explained. “Our post-modern period of climate change angst can probably be traced back to the late-1960s, if not earlier. By 1973, and the ‘global cooling’ scare, it was in full swing, with predictions of the imminent collapse of the world within ten to twenty years, exacerbated by the impacts of a nuclear winter.”
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Chinook wind
Is that bovine flatulence?
More like blowing too loud and getting bovine excrement coming out. Makes sense that a blow-hard pushes out hot air backed by bovine excrement.
Says something about DiCaprio when filming the Revenant, he makes a comment about Alberta’s dramatic change in temperature in a 24 hr period is due to climate change. And still repeats the comment again and again even after he was informed the ‘dramatic’ change in temperature has been happening in Alberta for centuries. Indians have a word for the phenomena “Chinook”
He sounds a lot like griff. He is incapable of allowing facts to change his opinion.
His is not an opinion it is a secular religious fervor, ‘cepting he is not willing to give up all his worldly goods for his beliefs. Just yours and mine.
DiCaprio, like Griffy, is a bear of very little brain – enough up top to regurgitate stuff he’s been spoon-fed but not much else really going on.
You missed the punchline to his chinook misdiagnosis.
He then went on to describe how they flew the entire movie production to Argentina to get some final shots with real snow
9000miles, an entire production
Just for a couple shots.
Guys, please feel free to add yet another scary “deadline” to the gallery of failed climate catastrophe predictions. By the way, do you have a dedicated page for that yet?
This is amusing:
https://extinctionclock.org
That logo looks suspiciously like the logo for XR
It’s taking the mick out of XR.
Extinction Clock is a brilliant reference for winding up greenies
Very amusing but I have a question about the first entry on that site.
How can 80% of a species be extinct?
I do not think that word means what they think it means.
Consider that 99.999% of all species which have inhabited the earth have gone extinct. Any one species only exists for a maximum of around a million years.
When a species goes extinct, its rarely the massive kill-off of a meteor event. Its typically clam species A was suffering parasitism from some nematode species X, however within clam species A a more successful variant, member became subspecies A
which was resistant to nematode. Subspecies Ahad a reproduction efficacy of 1.001, where as species A had a reproduction efficacy of 0.99 Thus over several thousand years, species A went extinct, subspecies Abecame the dominant species of clam in that environment. Of course one member of the species nematode X evolved to be a more successful parasite X, and so on and so on for about 541 million years.But every damn plant and animal which has ever lived is playing this same game. You, Me, the ostriches and oysters and every creeping thing which creepeth across the earth, swims in the seas, or slithers through the mud.
We all live our lives, and perish. We all have a slightly different genetics from our parents. Sometimes our genetics provides a slight, very slight advantage that causes us to wean slightly more successful offspring—than average—more successful offspring which carry that genetic trait. Those offspring become more successful than their peers. The more successful offspring eventually replace the less successful peers. Over hundreds of thousands of years, those more successful offspring have evolved to a degree which they can be deemed a separate species from the original root stock. The old less successful species are no longer to be found, they are considered extinct.
Was it some cruel catastrophic event? No, they quietly failed to reproduce viable offspring and were replaced by a more successful species.
I tried to write this as subspecies A – prime, (with the accent-grave character) however this was interpreted by the webpage as change font.
It appears, from the present “dumbed down” of OUR species, that the reverse is happening, and the ‘least successful’ have taken over..
But the least successful never seem to last, dont’cha know?
Great! Thanks.
“Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!” – Dale Arden
” to add yet another scary “deadline” to the gallery of failed … ” students.
His 9 years is is pretty close.
I spent some time calculating, held my wet finger in the air, took a handful of sand to determine wind direction, and I came up with 9.3 years
You could have added several decimal places of precision had you read some chicken entrails.
Chicken entrails? I don’t think so. Every proper scholar of the paranormal arts knows it is either unicorn fingers or dragon feathers to get good results in prognosticating the future. And the only way to share this learned information is in symbolically laden prose.
In ‘The Witcher’ they put a new spin on it.
The helper eats a portion of the recently deceased; the helper is immediately gutted; they read the entrails; then they know what they want to know about the recently deceased.
No unicorn fingers needed.
ERROR! ERROR! The ‘entrails’ would be unaltered for some time..
For the most accurate and precise reading of entrails I recommend the use of an ACME #10 Bone Rattle and the ample use of ACME ‘woke-blend’ Zombie Dust preferred by 97% of Witch Doctors world wide.
I have been following this nonsense for decades and am finally approaching the age at which I might not live long enough, even 9 years, to observe another catastrophic doomsday prediction bite the climate dust.
At least deCrapio has given me an attainable goal. Although, everybody already knows that at some point in the next 8 years he will proclaim a near certain future date for the apocalypse that will push this particular prediction out another decade. The Ministry of Truth (Media) will run cover and bury the failure of todays predication.
I can laugh along the way but I will never out live the Left wing propagandists for they are like the oceans waves which never fail to return, beating against the cliff face, wearing it down and eroding the shore.
Maybe they really do want a Doomsday ending. How hard would it be to give them what they want?
I would say a couple of large volcanic eruptions plus a tad of nuclear winter following a military conflict would fit their bill.
“At least deCrapio has given me an attainable goal.”
Something to look forward to. We will look forward to scoffing at this failed prediction, too. Just like all the ones in the past. All based on nothing.
Leonardo DiCaprio, educated exclusively in acting schools and private schools, no college experience and no degrees, has figured out the planet Earth has only nine (9) years to tumble over an unstoppable tipping point? And he’s willing to fly all over the planet in his personal jet to spread the word? And his acting has evolved into environmental documentaries (disguised as regular entertainment movies) and he, despite the lack of higher education, has figured out the math for a total green conversion to renewables, and how to store the energy and not chop up/burn up our flying friends in the process. Looks like he might be type-cast in the next Superman movie.
Well he’s certainly proved he’s daft enough to wear his underpants over his trousers.
to show the skid marks !
I think there’s too much crap coming out of his mouth. If he wears a face mask that will be where the skid marks are.
according to Wikipedia, “He dropped out of high school following his third year, eventually earning his general equivalency diploma.”
My dog earned a degree and I’ve got the papers to prove it
My cat and your dog individually are smarter than he is.
“he might be type-cast in the next Superman movie.”
Assuming there’s any ice left… </sarc>
Exactly what entertainment industry booking agents are hoping by recommending the “stars” involve themselves in causes of some type….some speaking engagements, something to put them on casting directors lists, some name brand recognition….so “save the XXX” where XXX is ecology, seals, whales, water, birds, forests, minks and so on….media mention without the payola is actually the goal.
When you see mentions of the same has-been actor on your news feed for a few days running, that is the result of payola by agents to the “star maker machine”. Its fairly expensive to slip those media influencers some bucks…but noble cause recognition like DiCapprio enjoys is free advertising.
It’s all the pictures from the huge yacht that show how much he really cares about not damaging the environment.
I wonder if his Eco-resort off of Belize opened.
I wonder how they get all that waygu beef to the remote archipelago?
By sailboat, because anything else would be hypocritical, and we can’t have that.
Even a sailboat has to have all of its parts ‘manufactured’.
Exploiting Belize’s lack of environmental legislation. Can’t help but wonder who would insure a billion dollar development built at sea level in the middle of hurricane alley ? Certainly not a climate believer
I wonder if CO2 is only a plant feed: LeoCrapio is also getting fat.
I am getting fat too. Why does food taste so good?
Once can only hope for a really good tsunami…
You missed his point entirely. It is “the 100 companies, who produce 70% of the GHG emissions” that MUST be stopped. So long as none of Leo’s jets or mega-yacht rentals involve those 100 companies … he’s clean. He’s good (with Gaia).
So all we need to to is to FORCE the banking industries to eliminate all funding and banking services to those 100 companies … and voila! Planet saved! Marxists, err Global Warmists DEMAND it!
They are the companies now building wind turbines and solar farms
Thank you, Kenji, for putting the spotlight on that.
A change in tactics by the advocacy community, to move the entire process up to the large company level. Through the use of ESG and so-called scope 3 emissions, the pressure is on Exxon-Mobil to take responsibility for my decision as to what car to operate, and my choice of form of transport to get a litre of milk.
If successful, this will result in the entire process taken out of the hands of the ‘little people’, who make market decisions and voting decisions. The financial elite (yes, I am looking at you, Mark Carney) will choose the path for our society.
He has a nice yacht, and so does Nicole Kidman
Good, it strengthens my resolev to avoid all this ignorant hippocrit’s movies.
Upon seeing his “reventment” or whatever, my wife commented it was the dumbest movie she had ever seen. Most of the shots were of the 12 stuntmen. IMHO.
I’ve made it a point to avoid any movie that is recommended for an Oscar. The only exceptions being special affects and music.
The Richard Harris version (in the 70s, I believe), is very good. Watch that one instead. Don’t recall the title, but look up Richard Harris in IMDB and you’ll find it.
Man in the wilderness
So did I long ago.
Fine, turning the Gulfstream for a Clipper ship.
Speaking of clocks……
“New Doomsday Clock announcement coming Thursday.” (10:00 a.m.)
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/doomsday-clock-announcement-75th-anniversary
What a hypocritical idiot just the same as Prince Charley Windsor.
It’s unbelievable that these fools can just keep repeating this nonsense ad-infinitum.
YOU will own nothing and be happy. THEY on the other hand will own everything.
and be even happier.
We should call this Technofeudalism, and we little people are the serfs.
Why do luvvies think that they know better than us on any given subject and that we must listen to them? Is it because they have never done any actual work and have lots of spare time? Why do so many people actually listen to them and think, ‘Ooh- if he says so it must be true’? Are most people really that simple? Answers on a postcard please……
Here is Ricky Gervais’ treatment of the Hollywood elite. The man has balls of steel. I watch it whenever I need to cheer myself up.
Oh yeah – the Epstein and Weinstein comments went right in their faces.
What does Lassie say?
Woof
I recall one episode where a guy who got trapped in a mine cave in- told Lassie to “go get the sheriff”- and of course he did. I’ve been laughing over that ever since.
I’m pretty sure Lassie was a bitch.
But she identified as male.
Leo is Al Gore’s bitch.
I understand that all 9 dogs that played Lassie were male – and all were descendants of “Pal” (RIP 1958) who played the part first.
“ to stop climate change”
Good luck with that loony proposition
It would be useful if he gave us some “Direction”, I thought that was his job!
Loony and impossible.
So yet again a moron who’s only qualification is a life spent pretending to be what it is not is telling everyone else the world is ending. yawn.
said many times by many people
when the people saying the climate is a crisis starting acting like climate is a crisis, I might and I mean might just believe them
Very much like the Guardian’s “100 Months to save the world”, from some time ago.
How far into the 100 months are we? I want to be ready.
Ask Charley Windsor – he will know. For absolute certain!
If you ask chuck about his climate prediction he’ll ask which one.
Whatever you want, he’s got one
Off topic, sorry- but- just reading the Boston Globe and I see their announcement of a new section dedicated to the climate horror show.
“Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change- To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.”
I think the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine and the rapid growth of China’s military are far more pressing issues- to which the climatistas are ignorant.
and right near the top- “We won’t debate the reality of climate change or its cause. That debate is settled.”
So no more commentary from the likes of Lindzen , Koonin , lomborg , Shellenberger , Curry , pielke ? Sad to see a good newspaper become a mouthpiece, regardless of the cause .
There are very few newspapers left that don’t consider their primary job to be the mouthpiece for some left wing organization or other.
they’ve been canceled- non persons
Good newspaper?
The Glob?
When was that? 1912?
Ditto for chemical & plastic pollution of air, water & soil by the society we’ve created.
Those are far more serious ecological issues than imagining that it’s possible to remove human-caused CO2 from air and prevent worldwide regional climates from changing.
It really doesn’t matter which imaginary crisis you want to force onto others.
“…and rethinking its coverage.”
That implies they had originally thought. Is that correct?
THAT right there is Funny!
Putin is too busy laughing at the US running around like a barnyard chicken with its head chopped off…
The effect of centralized “free” articles at https://coveringclimatenow.org/
on news outlets has been very effective for climatistas.
“Off topic, sorry”
Seems like you’re not really sorry.
He’s just being polite.
It is said that when DiCaprio’s stepbrother earned $50,000 for a television commercial, DiCaprio, decided to become an actor.
Needless to say, that was long before he jumped on the private jet/climate game.
“I have to go to Glasgow” No he didn’t. He could have used Zoom etc.
“We literally have a nine year window.” As we have since 1990 – every ten years.
““Our governments, the governments of the world, must work together” And sod the peoples of the world.
“I have had two great passions in my life.” Money and telling people what they should do, or even eat…
“his latest crusade hits a little closer to home. DiCaprio is now asking fans to help the planet—and their health—by giving up one dietary staple: meat.”
https://www.eatthis.com/news-leonardo-dicaprio-meat/
At least I’ll never hear of Alec Baldwin again.
Actually 1968 with Paul and Ann Erlich.
At the time my girlfriend was a rabid ZPG advocate – I think she eventually had 5 or 6 kids
I am not falling for that again.
Mr. .1: When did you fall for it before? I’ll wager that the commenters here who trigger your heightened sensitivity NEVER fell for this AGW lie. Some may argue AGW may be a real thing, but nobody “fell for it” if they spent any time at this site. When did you become skeptical of AGW, and why?
So at a guess the original release of his film bombed, presumably due to C19,
(Should that be ‘crashed and burned’ or strictly, as per what meteors do : Burn and Crash?)
Thus; is the man stirring up publicity for himself and his film in advance of a re-release?
Some of us, with what would a deliberately misconstrued/misunderstood misanthropic streak some miles wide inside us, would truly love to see a few real and sizeable rocks rain down – esp if they could somehow be aimed or persuaded to hit any of The Large Deserts.
Yes maybe a bit messy and dirty but what’s your problem with that?
Conventional ploughs as used in agriculture, farming and tillage are messy dirty things but everyone lauds the advantages of what they do. i.e. Grow Food
Original thinkers and real scientists recognise that the dust raised by ploughs & tillage is causing the observed Global Greening.
So it would be with the large meteors, they’d ‘plough’ the deserts, stirring up a shed-load of fresh new dirt/soil for plants to ‘eat’ and thus get the deserts green and growing again.
They’d have nice weather too.
Some number of well-placed volcanoes would yield the same result = nice weather and lots of munchies
I’ve noticed there’s a ‘loamy’ theme to your posts…
The world’s major deserts are not man made. It is lack of rainfall primarily due to the latitude of the area. The Sahara for instance was once green and likely will be green again one day when a long term cycle of the earth’s orbit changes to bring rain.
Mostly in the thirties between the trades and the westerlies
It was Green when Alexander the great conquered it back when Christ was a child. The Nile delta fed alexander’s armies when Europe was in a cold period where NOTHING would grow . . . Pages 16 & 17 . . .
(PDF) The Environmentalist & The Neanderthal | Jim Le Maistre – Academia.edu
And some how today is different ?? I think NOT !
Today we are in the 9th warming cycle of the Holocene . . .
This is only the second time in the last 250,000 years where the prairies and Europe are NOT covered in 10 km. of ice . . . We should thank our Lucky Charms
(PDF) CO2 Cradle of Life on Planet Earth | Jim Le Maistre – Academia.edu
10 km. of ice? Are you certain about that?
Good catch . . . 2 – 3 km. – up to 9,000 feet in places over Canada and Europe . . .
The deserts of southern California were made to bloom when water from the Colorado river was brought in.
I’ve never seen a “desert” that didn’t bloom after a rainfall.
I planted trees on my desert property outside of Las Vegas. Watered them with water that came from the Colorado river. They grew tall and robust. I’ve told Peta this, but he still (fecklessly) promotes his wacky theory that nutrient-free dirt causes deserts which cause climate change. He has been schooled on this time and time again, yet he routinely beclowns himself.
Ill-educated, woke, hypocritical, useless little twat.
We only had 10yrs in 2009 (charlie chump said so) … so having past ‘the tipping point’ we are already into the downward spiral therefore there’s nothing we can do that will save us
I would like to thank Leonardo di Caprio for his contribution to the wellbeing of the planet. With his resources, he is able to fly frequently by private jet, thus producing far more CO2 than most other people could even dream of. The results are impressive and well documented: increased greening of the planet, record high global food production, decreased excess winter deaths, decreased energy needs for winter heating, and many other benefits. I feel that it would be very helpful if L di C could generate more publicity for his massive public-spirited ‘carbon footprint’ and encourage others to follow suit to the best of their ability. Even those of us without access to private jets can contribute something, and together we can make a real improvement to the planet.
Leo, shut up.
There’s a ticking clock’
I have several in use, in the kitchen, the thermostat, the alarm clock….
Should I panic now ?
😀
Only if they all agree with each other.
Come on Leonardo, you can be more precise than that. What day are we talking about? I need to know if it will be a Thursday afternoon because we have our supermarket delivery on a Thursday afternoon.
Did he make that announcement from his private jet that he flies to all the conferences?
I understand the hurry of Leonardo. after nine years temperatures begin to be cool enough that nobody believes in warming. Attached diagram shows temperature history of North Atlantic sea surface (0-70N) with surprisingly well fitting sine function (AMO) + linear trend (recovery from LIA).
Details of the study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339274895_Increasing_Carbon_Dioxide_Concentration_in_Atmosphere_Has_Negligible_Effect_on_North_Atlantic_Sea_Surface_Temperature
UN Agenda for 2030. This is why.
Think about it. If we really had a 9 year window to stop a world-shattering catastrophe, would you waste your time with UN Sustainable Development Goals about social justice? Nope. It’s all a scam. You’d focus only on the emergency, not on the 16 (yes) goals.
“In September 2015, countries adopted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.”
I call bullshit on the emergency. Tackling “no poverty” and “zero hunger”, mmm, what little ambitious goals right there. Just only something that wasn’t ever realized in the history of the world, but this time, globally. All when we have a supposed critical emergency that will end all life on the planet.