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DiCaprio: Climate change deniers shouldn't hold public office
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/299097-dicaprio-climate-change-deniers-shouldnt-hold-public-office ^

Posted on 10/03/2016 7:14:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

October 03, 2016, 08:46 pm DiCaprio: Climate change deniers shouldn't hold public office

By Jessie Hellmann

Politicians who don't believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.

"The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over," DiCaprio said at the White House's South By South Lawn event.

"If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office."

DiCaprio screened his film "Before the Flood," a documentary about climate change. Ahead of the screening, he spoke on a panel with President Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
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To: Honorary Serb

Well, there’s our working list of those who should never be allowed to run for office.


61 posted on 10/03/2016 9:11:49 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Soul of the South
If he was a true believer...

If he were a "True Believer" in Global Warming, he would not be developing his private island in Belize. HOT & HUMID there, most of the year!

62 posted on 10/03/2016 9:19:49 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Sub-Driver

Leo, I love you in movies .......... where you are pretending to be SOMEONE ELSE.


63 posted on 10/03/2016 9:33:24 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: gaijin
Leo own FOUR yachts

If the people pushing global warming really believed it, they wouldn't live like they do.

64 posted on 10/03/2016 9:33:49 PM PDT by henkster (Better to be Pavlov's Dog than Schroedinger's Cat)
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To: All

The only thing an actor would know about standard deviation is last night’s party at Woody Allen’s house.


65 posted on 10/03/2016 10:38:40 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for enlightenment and true justice in these times of mass delusion)
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To: Sub-Driver

Actors shouldn’t pretend to know science.


66 posted on 10/03/2016 10:39:40 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Total phony IDIOTS shouldn’t be allowed to act.


67 posted on 10/03/2016 10:40:08 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: muglywump

0.5


68 posted on 10/03/2016 11:04:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: USMCPOP
I understand that he eventually earned a GED high school diploma.

Personally I would take someone with a GED over your average high school diploma earner any day.

To get a GED you actually have to do the work.

69 posted on 10/03/2016 11:42:26 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over”, Leonardo DiCaprio.

‘Scientific Consensus’ has always been an oxymoron. And Leonardo DiCaprio has always been a moron.


70 posted on 10/03/2016 11:45:55 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shut Up and Act...


71 posted on 10/04/2016 12:38:18 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Secret Agent Man
Dicaprio was born after the 70s when they ran all the global ice age/cooling stuff.

Lol!

____________________________________

From 1975...

The "Grim Realities" of Global COOLING

"The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."

The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975

There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production- with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree - a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.

"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3 percent between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras - and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 - years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases - all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.

But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

72 posted on 10/04/2016 1:14:06 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Sub-Driver

LIttle dumbass Nancy boys shouldn’t make movies.


73 posted on 10/04/2016 2:44:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: muglywump

“What is the sine of forty five degrees?”

Same as the cosine. Apples


74 posted on 10/04/2016 4:19:53 AM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: Sub-Driver

A famous actor speaks ...I must listen...I must act. They are so much smarter than us...not! What a joke that such a person could say anything important enough to get “quoted”...a sick media.


75 posted on 10/04/2016 4:24:37 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Someone should ask him what is the common name for H2O?


76 posted on 10/04/2016 4:37:44 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Leftist actors should stick to their lines - it’s the only time they sound coherent.


77 posted on 10/04/2016 4:51:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Javolt, Leo! /sarcasm/


78 posted on 10/04/2016 5:25:17 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Sub-Driver

Climate change deniers aren’t fit to fly on private jets! They don’t deserve it! /S


79 posted on 10/04/2016 5:34:40 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Sub-Driver

I did not bother to read the rest of the story, Dick head Caprio don`t know what he is talking about.

I have never talked to any one who did not know that the climate has had its changes for millions of years and will continue to change until the end.

If Caprio believes he is changing the climate then he could do the rest of us a favor and quit breathing.


80 posted on 10/04/2016 9:30:36 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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