Results 1 to 11 of 11

Thread: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

  1. #1
    Banned Melonie's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2002
    Location
    way south of the border
    Posts
    25,932
    Thanks
    612
    Thanked 10,563 Times in 4,646 Posts
    Blog Entries
    3
    My Mood
    Cynical

    Default DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    (snip)"In addition to Gore's entry last year into Hollywood fictional disaster films, other celebrity figures have attempted to jump into the game.

    Hollywood activist Leonardo DiCaprio decided to toss objective scientific truth out the window in his new scarefest "The 11th Hour." DiCaprio refused to interview any scientists who disagreed with his dire vision of the future of the Earth.

    In fact, his film reportedly features physicist Stephen Hawking making the unchallenged assertion that "the worst-case scenario is that Earth would become like its sister planet, Venus, with a temperature of 250 [degrees] centigrade."

    I guess these "worst-case scenario's" pass for science in Hollywood these days. It also fits perfectly with DiCaprio's stated purpose of the film.

    DiCaprio said on May 20th of this year: "I want the public to be very scared by what they see. I want them to see a very bleak future."

    While those who went to watch DiCaprio's science fiction film may see his intended "bleak future," it is DiCapro who has been scared by the bleak box office numbers, as his film has failed to generate any significant audience interest. (See: "DiCaprio's Eco Movie Bombs" LINK ) "(snip)

    (snip)"Children are now the number one target of the global warming fear campaign. DiCaprio announced his goal was to recruit young eco-activists to the cause.

    "We need to get kids young," DiCaprio said in a September 20 interview with USA Weekend.

    Hollywood activist Laurie David, Gore's co-producer of "An Inconvenient Truth" recently co-authored a children's global warming book with Cambria Gordon for Scholastic Books titled, The Down-To-Earth Guide to Global Warming.

    David has made it clear that her goal is to influence young minds with her new book when she recently wrote an open letter to her children stating: "We want you to grow up to be activists."

    Apparently, David and other activists are getting frustrated by the widespread skepticism on climate as reflected in both the U.S. and the UK according to the latest polls.

    It appears the alarmists are failing to convince adults to believe their increasingly shrill and scientifically unfounded rhetoric, so they have decided kids are an easier sell.

    But David should worry less about recruiting young activists and more about scientific accuracy. A science group found what it called a major "scientific error" in David's new kid's book on page 18.

    According to a Science and Public Policy Institute release on September 13:

    "The authors [David and Gordon] present unsuspecting children with an altered temperature and CO2 graph that reverses the relationship found in the scientific literature. The manipulation is critical because David's central premise posits that CO2 drives temperature, yet the peer-reviewed literature is unanimous that CO2 changes have historically followed temperature changes."

    David has now been forced to publicly admit this significant scientific error in her book. "(snip)


    (snip)"I agree with Gore. Global warming may have reached a "tipping point."

    The man-made global warming fear machine crossed the "tipping point" in 2007.

    I am convinced that future climate historians will look back at 2007 as the year the global warming fears began crumbling. The situation we are in now is very similar to where we were in the late 1970's when coming ice age fears began to dismantle.

    Remember, it was Newsweek Magazine which in the 1970's proclaimed meteorologists were "almost unanimous" in their view that a coming Ice Age would have negative impacts. It was also Newsweek in 1975 which originated the eerily similar "tipping point" rhetoric of today:

    Newsweek wrote on April 28, 1975 about coming ice age fears: "The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."

    Of course Newsweek essentially retracted their coming ice age article 29 years later in October 2006. In addition, a 1975 National Academy of Sciences report addressed coming ice age fears and in 1971, NASA predicted the world "could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age."

    Today, the greatest irony is that the UN and the media's climate hysteria grows louder as the case for alarmism fades away. While the scientific case grows weaker, the political and rhetorical proponents of climate fear are ramping up to offer hefty tax and regulatory "solutions" both internationally and domestically to "solve" the so-called "crisis."

    Skeptical Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball formerly of the University of Winnipeg in Canada wrote about the current state of the climate change debate earlier this month:

    "Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory - a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable (CO2) is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system."

    And just how minor is that man-made CO2 variable in the atmosphere?

    Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, explained in August how miniscule mankind's CO2 emissions are in relation to the Earth's atmosphere.

    "If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor," D'Aleo wrote. "(snip)

  2. #2
    DJ Maimed
    Guest

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    [url]

    "We need to get kids young," DiCaprio said in a September 20 interview with USA Weekend.

    (snip)
    You had to know it was only a matter of time till Follywood, like Rap/Hip hop (M. Jackson, R. Kelly, Akon, etc.) jumped on the pedophile/propaganda bandwagon. Where O' where are the Sirhans and Oswalds of this age??

  3. #3
    Veteran Member
    Joined
    Jul 2004
    Posts
    521
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    While Hollywood and former politicians prattle on about global warming, we really do have a problem which will arrive much earlier.

    I followed a thread on another mb re: the scarcity of fresh drinking water, and apparently the city of Atlanta is due to run out of this pillar of life about four months from now.

    And I thought I heard something on the radio (although not sure) about 36 states in the U.S. are due to have the same problem within roughly one year.

    Meanwhile what are our "leaders" doing to solve this problem? It's going to be here a lot sooner than global warming!

    To me, global warming still represents a desperate attmept by the left to find any excuse possible to impose a centrally planned economy in the U.S.

  4. #4
    God/dess
    Joined
    Jan 2003
    Location
    Arizona
    Posts
    2,993
    Thanks
    39
    Thanked 12 Times in 11 Posts

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by PhaedrusZ View Post
    While Hollywood and former politicians prattle on about global warming, we really do have a problem which will arrive much earlier.

    I followed a thread on another mb re: the scarcity of fresh drinking water, and apparently the city of Atlanta is due to run out of this pillar of life about four months from now.

    And I thought I heard something on the radio (although not sure) about 36 states in the U.S. are due to have the same problem within roughly one year.

    Meanwhile what are our "leaders" doing to solve this problem? It's going to be here a lot sooner than global warming!

    To me, global warming still represents a desperate attmept by the left to find any excuse possible to impose a centrally planned economy in the U.S.
    Interesting, but do you think that perhaps global warming could be having an impact on the availability of drinking water???

  5. #5
    Jay Zeno
    Guest

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    To me, global warming still represents a desperate attmept by the left...
    I didn't know the left had control over the climate.

  6. #6
    TheSexKitten
    Guest

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno View Post
    I didn't know the left had control over the climate.
    Zing! Omg nice one!

  7. #7
    Veteran Member
    Joined
    Jul 2004
    Posts
    521
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by Richard_Head View Post
    Interesting, but do you think that perhaps global warming could be having an impact on the availability of drinking water???
    Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe somewhere between those extremes. All I know is four months from now, at least in the case of Atlanta, is going to arrive pretty damn fast compared to 2050!

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno View Post
    I didn't know the left had control over the climate.
    The left doesn't have control over the climate, but neither does the political right.

    The left only has control over using the climate as an excuse. An excuse in an attempt for the left to impose more of its economic prescriptions upon the U.S. economy.

    E.g., any left/liberal politician who trots out global warming as a reason a "carbon tax" needs to be imposed in the U.S.
    Last edited by PhaedrusZ; 10-30-2007 at 03:15 PM. Reason: typo

  8. #8
    Jay Zeno
    Guest

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by PhaedrusZ View Post
    The left only has control over using the climate as an excuse.
    With the other side being that the right has control over practicing denial when it comes to climate?

  9. #9
    Banned Melonie's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2002
    Location
    way south of the border
    Posts
    25,932
    Thanks
    612
    Thanked 10,563 Times in 4,646 Posts
    Blog Entries
    3
    My Mood
    Cynical

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    ^^^ actually the other side doesn't deny climate change is happening. After all there is ample proof that the planet Mars is growing warmer right along with planet Earth !

    What the other side disputes is the degree to which climate change is actually influenced by human activity, and the degree to which our economies will be ruined while 'carbon credit' company owning politicians reap big personal profits via new gov't mandates re carbon emissions and 'carbon taxes'.

  10. #10
    Jay Zeno
    Guest

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    ^^^ actually the other side doesn't deny climate change is happening.
    Seriously? It took me about 20 seconds to find a thread in 2005 in which climate change was adamantly being denied. I can quote if there's a need. The denial is undeniable.

    So we have manipulation of climate change claims by one side and denial of climate change, up to a couple years ago, by the other side. All in the name, not of science, but political expediency. Then as the facts became increasingly inconvenient, one side came around to say, OK, yeah, it's changing, but it's not caused by humans. Look at Mars, says one. Look at the graph since the Industrial Revolution, says the other. All in the name of economic expediency.

    I'm not even on board to say how much is caused by humans (but clearly, at least some of it is) or if it's even globally harmful (ecologically, as a door shuts on one system, it opens on another, and that's how the world goes). But I wish we'd stick to objective facts and stop trying to spin the facts into what one particular side would like to believe.

    I know. That's a hopeless fancy.

  11. #11
    Banned Melonie's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2002
    Location
    way south of the border
    Posts
    25,932
    Thanks
    612
    Thanked 10,563 Times in 4,646 Posts
    Blog Entries
    3
    My Mood
    Cynical

    Default Re: DeCaprio's 'sequel' to Gore climate movie branded 'science fiction'

    But I wish we'd stick to objective facts and stop trying to spin the facts into what one particular side would like to believe.

    I know. That's a hopeless fancy.
    Well, at least when we are 'spinning' the facts, it's confined to voluntary readers who are free to judge for themselves. However, when Al Gore or Leo DeCaprio are 'spinning' the facts ( or making up facts) with the blessing / resources of hollywood to back them, and when teachers are directing that students must watch their movies without any presentation / discussion of alternate 'spins', it's a different situation. Recently a UK judge felt that this situation was one-sided enough to direct UK schools to also present a list of 'factual errors' to the involuntary viewers of Gore's movie. However, to date, no similar court ruling has come down re US school showings of Gore's movie. Thus Gore and Leo are free to pursue their chosen target audience ...

    (snip)"Children are now the number one target of the global warming fear campaign. DiCaprio announced his goal was to recruit young eco-activists to the cause.

    "We need to get kids young," DiCaprio said in a September 20 interview with USA Weekend."(snip)

Similar Threads

  1. Stripper Fiction/Non Fiction
    By PaigeDWinter in forum Stripping (was Stripping General)
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 05-28-2008, 02:54 PM
  2. Al Gore Petition for climate change.
    By Scarlett.Oz in forum Member Boards
    Replies: 19
    Last Post: 12-12-2007, 10:39 AM
  3. Al Gore Petition for climate change.
    By Scarlett.Oz in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 12-10-2007, 11:04 AM
  4. The goofiest sequel of all...
    By Madcap in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 16
    Last Post: 11-17-2006, 12:14 PM
  5. Fantasyland: The Sequel
    By Tigerlilly in forum Political Poo
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 01-21-2005, 01:14 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •