Climate Change Summed Up
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Yeah what a horrible guy.




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In 1998, DiCaprio and his mother donated $35,000 for a "Leonardo DiCaprio Computer Center" at the Los Feliz branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, the site of his childhood home. It was rebuilt after the 1994 Northridge earthquake and opened in early 1999.[148] During the filming of Blood Diamond, DiCaprio worked with 24 orphaned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, and was said to be extremely touched by his interactions with the children.[149] In 2010, he donated $1 million to relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake.[150][/url]
In November 2010, DiCaprio donated $1 million to the
Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit. DiCaprio's persistence in reaching the event after encountering two plane delays caused then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a "muzhik" or "real man".[151][152] In 2011, DiCaprio joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund's campaign to free Tony, a tiger who has spent the last decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.[153] In April 2013, DiCaprio donated $61,000 to GLAAD, an organization which promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.[154]
In early 2016, at a meeting with Pope Francis, he gave a charity donation and spoke about environmental issues. A few days later, possibly influenced by his meeting with DiCaprio, the Pope said he would act in a planned faith-based charity film, Beyond the Sun. It would be his first acting experience, and would also be the first time in history that a Pope appeared in a feature film. Profits from the film would be given to charities in Argentina.[15




Among the accolades received were the Martin Litton Environment Award, in 2001, from Environment Now, and the Environmental Leadership Award in 2003 from Global Green USA.[126]
DiCaprio chaired the national Earth Day celebration in 2000, where he interviewed President Bill Clinton and they discussed plans to deal with global warming and the environment.[127] In 2007 he had a major role in The 11th Hour, a documentary about people's relationship to nature and global warming. He co-produced, co-wrote and narrated the film.[127] From a benefit "11th Hour" fine art auction he organized in 2013, he raised nearly $40 million to toward his foundation. He told attendees, "Bid as if the fate of the planet depended on us."[128] It became the world's highest-grossing environmental charity event ever held.[129] DiCaprio states that global warming is the world's "number-one environmental challenge".[130] In July 2016 his foundation awarded $15.6 million to help protect wildlife and the rights of Native Americans, along with combating climate change.[131]
He has been an active supporter of numerous environmental organizations and has sat on the board of the World Wildlife Fund, Global Green USA, International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Natural Resources Defense Council.[124][132] He traveled to Indonesia in early 2016 where he criticized the government's palm oil industry's slash-and-burn forest clearing methods.[133][134]
He drives environment-friendly vehicles, including an electric Tesla Roadster,[135] a Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid,[136] and a Toyota Prius.[137] His home is powered by solar panels
 



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He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.
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(11-25-2016, 02:13 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.

What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
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(11-25-2016, 03:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 02:13 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.

What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.
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Quote:"The fake news problem is getting serious. An example appeared on the front page of the New York Times on Friday, under the headline ‘Rising Seas Turn Coastal Houses Into a Gamble.’
Supposedly elevated sea levels caused by global warming have homeowners and developers worried about the value of their coastal properties.
Supposedly their concern has been heightened by the election of Donald Trump, ‘who has long been a skeptic of global warming.’
Supposedly the Trump selection of Myron Ebell, a policy specialist who challenges the media consensus on global warming, to head the EPA transition has ‘intensified these worries in Florida and among many climate scientists.’
The emphasis is ours—though, of course, it’s probably true that somebody ‘in Florida’ buys the thesis of this story, even if it’s just a Times reporter passing through.
Only in the second half of a 3,099-word opus is the truth not so much revealed as hinted. Halting and piecemeal reform of the federal flood-insurance subsidy program that has so benefited wealthy seaside homeowners is why beach-front housing prices are being reset.
A Sarasota couple found it harder to sell their Florida house when shoppers noticed a $7,000 annual flood insurance bill. ‘This experience will become more common, economists say, as the federal government shifts away from subsidizing flood insurance rates to get premiums closer to reflecting the true market cost of the risk,’ the paper notes in passing.
Bingo.
When Teddy Roosevelt built his Sagamore Hill on Long Island, he did so a quarter mile from shore at an elevation of 115 feet not because he disdained proximity to the beach or was precociously worried about climate change. The federal government did not stand ready with taxpayer money to defray his risk.
Estimates vary, but sea levels may have risen at two millimeters a year over the past century. Meanwhile, tidal cycles along the U.S. east coast range from 11 feet every day (in Boston) to two feet (parts of Florida).
On top of this, a ‘notable surge event’ can produce a storm surge of seven to 23 feet, according to a federal list of 10 hurricanes over the past 70 years.
We should not exaggerate the degree to which homeowners are being asked to shoulder their own risks. Washington is doling out five-figure checks to Jersey homeowners to raise houses on pilings to reduce the federal government’s future rebuilding costs. But, to state the obvious, normal tidal variation plus storm surge is the danger to coastal property. Background sea-level rise is a non-factor. A FEMA study from several years ago found that fully a quarter of coastal dwellings are liable to be destroyed over a 50-year period.
Though it pleased New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pretend Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was caused by global warming, the storm wasn’t even a hurricane by the time it hit shore—it just happened to hit at peak tide. Sure, certain people in Florida and elsewhere like to conflate the two. It’s in their interests to do so. But the Times is not obliged to make front-page climate propaganda out of a false syllogism.
Alas, climate change is one of the worst things to happen to journalism. Our industry’s base of financial support was already being eroded by digital economics. Our intellectual credibility is assailed by fake news, on one hand, and by the rise of bloggers, on the other, many of whom are more perceptive, disciplined thinkers.
Climate change is the cheapest grace on offer these days. Climate reporters aren’t expected to understand the science or its limits—understanding is actively discouraged. Just memorize the word ‘consensus’ and fling ‘denier’ at anybody who proves inconvenient.
This column, for instance, says nothing about the role of fossil fuels in climate change. It doesn’t mention that President Obama’s policies would have no effect on climate change, so the transition to President Trump will have no effect either. The only thing being denied is that climate change is the major factor in repricing shoreline property. Its author will be called a denier anyway.
The emperor’s new clothes is our most important parable of groupthink. It reminds us that a certain kind of cowardice expresses itself not as fear but as joy—joy at conformity, joy at being part of a mob, joy at being immune to criticism no matter how bovine your reporting because you exhibit the ‘right’ stance on climate change."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/shoreline-ge...1480111739
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(11-25-2016, 04:45 PM)orygunluvr Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 03:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 02:13 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.

What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.

Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.
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(11-25-2016, 08:04 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 04:45 PM)orygunluvr Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 03:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 02:13 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.

What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.

Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.

DiCaprio probably IS buying green energy and that's basically the same thing.

Notice OL didn't even mention all that DiCaprio is doing to try and ween us off fossil fuels but instead just bitches that he flies in a jet instead of riding a bus or has a 6 million dollar home instead of a 12X60 with a tip out.
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(11-26-2016, 01:27 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 08:04 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 04:45 PM)orygunluvr Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 03:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 02:13 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: He's under fire right now to give back the tens of millions in doantions from a criminal that's been convicted of major financial crimes, like that will ever happen from a greedy liberal loon. He's just another liberal hypocrite that wants you to believe that you need a skateboard for transportation while he uses a yacht, and apparently it's working.

What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.

Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.

DiCaprio probably IS buying green energy and that's basically the same thing.

Notice OL didn't even mention all that DiCaprio is doing to try and ween us off fossil fuels but instead just bitches that he flies in a jet instead of riding a bus or has a 6 million dollar home instead of a 12X60 with a tip out.

And regardless of what people, who take on the cause has mouthpieces, individually do against the environment, climate change caused by the worlds use of fossil fuels, is still serious.
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(11-26-2016, 02:38 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 01:27 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 08:04 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 04:45 PM)orygunluvr Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 03:41 PM)tvguy Wrote: What's working is ALL the far right bullshit you continually immerse yourself in.

You don't mention ANY of the many contributions he had made to put his money where his mouth is.
Instead you simply toss out some other red herring issue.
The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.

Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.

DiCaprio probably IS buying green energy and that's basically the same thing.

Notice OL didn't even mention all that DiCaprio is doing to try and ween us off fossil fuels but instead just bitches that he flies in a jet instead of riding a bus or has a 6 million dollar home instead of a 12X60 with a tip out.

And regardless of what people, who take on the cause has mouthpieces, individually do against the environment, climate change caused by the worlds use of fossil fuels, is still serious.

  It's not hard for me to believe that the good people like DiCaprio does in getting the word out and cash donations offsets whatever his own carbon foot print may be.
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(11-26-2016, 03:53 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 02:38 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 01:27 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 08:04 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 04:45 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: The hypocrite loon leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one day that you and I together can in a lifetime, all in the name of climate change. That doesn't seem like something someone that was honest and serious about the issue would be doing. But then again he's a liberals loon and his followers, yourself included, are just as loony. That's no "far right bullshit", it's reality, just like the rest of the sky is falling loons that parade around the world leaving carbon footprints by each one in a day than you and I will in a lifetime. But you buy into the hysteria, so be it.

Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.

DiCaprio probably IS buying green energy and that's basically the same thing.

Notice OL didn't even mention all that DiCaprio is doing to try and ween us off fossil fuels but instead just bitches that he flies in a jet instead of riding a bus or has a 6 million dollar home instead of a 12X60 with a tip out.

And regardless of what people, who take on the cause has mouthpieces, individually do against the environment, climate change caused by the worlds use of fossil fuels, is still serious.

  It's not hard for me to believe that the good people like DiCaprio does in getting the word out and cash donations offsets whatever his own carbon foot print may be.

Yes they do. Besides, I think the point with his kind activism is to develop geen energy so that all of our carbon footprints are less. I don't expect wealthy activists to live in small homes just because they are trying to promote cleaner energy. I don't see any hypocrisy here.
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Quote: our geomagnetic field is weakening by around 5% a year, which is nearly ten times faster than previous estimates. According to the a press release by the ESA, the data shows that the field is weakening faster in some places than others:
Quote:It shows clearly that the field has weakened by about 3.5% at high latitudes over North America, while it has strengthened about 2% over Asia. The region where the field is at its weakest – the South Atlantic Anomaly – has moved steadily westward and weakened further by about 2%.
This new data might foreshadow a coming reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, an event thought to occur around every 100,00 years, with the last reversal happening during the human Stone Age. While some Doomsday sayers believe that this magnetic reversal could mark the end of life on Earth, the consensus among geoscientists is that the worst effect could be the re-labeling all of Earth’s compasses.  

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/05/ea...-know-why/
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#13
(11-26-2016, 05:39 PM)cletus1 Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 03:53 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 02:38 PM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-26-2016, 01:27 PM)tvguy Wrote:
(11-25-2016, 08:04 PM)chuck white Wrote: Which is why a carbon tax would work.
The hypocritical rich, with all of their carbon usage, would be paying more than us simple folk.

DiCaprio probably IS buying green energy and that's basically the same thing.

Notice OL didn't even mention all that DiCaprio is doing to try and ween us off fossil fuels but instead just bitches that he flies in a jet instead of riding a bus or has a 6 million dollar home instead of a 12X60 with a tip out.

And regardless of what people, who take on the cause has mouthpieces, individually do against the environment, climate change caused by the worlds use of fossil fuels, is still serious.

  It's not hard for me to believe that the good people like DiCaprio does in getting the word out and cash donations offsets whatever his own carbon foot print may be.

Yes they do. Besides, I think the point with his kind activism is to develop geen energy so that all of our carbon footprints are less. I don't expect wealthy activists to live in small homes just because they are trying to promote cleaner energy. I don't see any hypocrisy here.

It reminds me of back when anyone who Objected to cutting down every single old growth tree in the state. Was confronted with this brilliant logic... "Is your house made out of wood"
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Quote:The age of polar ice going back as far as 1.5 million years can now be worked out thanks to a new dating technique using krypton.

Scientists have managed to successfully identify the age of 120,000 Antarctic ice using radiometric krypton dating, but there is huge potential to date far older samples, researchers from Oregon State University said.

....
"The oldest ice found in drilled cores is around 800,000 years old and with this new technique we think we can look in other regions and successfully date polar ice back as far as 1.5 million years.
"That is very exciting because a lot of interesting things happened with Earth's climate prior to 800,000 years ago that we currently cannot study in the ice core record."
Krypton is produced by cosmic rays hitting Earth and then being stored in air bubbles within Antarctic Ice. It has a radioactive isotope called krypton-81 that decays very slowly, and a stable one, called krypton-83, that does not decay.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/krypton-allows-...rs-1445612
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/...shrinking/

Scott and Shackleton logbooks prove Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking 100 years after expeditions
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(11-27-2016, 03:25 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/...shrinking/

Scott and Shackleton logbooks prove Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking 100 years after expeditions

Interesting article about a report from Robert Bindschadler, 
The article you linked doesn't say much. It does at least give the name of one of the authors.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25509...se-by-2200

Quote:It is common knowledge in the climate change scientific community that governments around the world had better be planning for a one-meter rise in global sea levels by the end of this century.
What isn't common is for a world-renowned scientist to warn that there could be a greater rise than that before 2100 - in addition to a catastrophic two to three-meter rise by 2200, and worsening increases thereafter.
NASA emeritus scientist Robert Bindschadler, who worked for 35 years as a glaciologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is sounding these warnings.
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We were supposed to be ice free forever like last year wasn't it?
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(11-27-2016, 10:14 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: We were supposed to be ice free forever like last year wasn't it?

Where do you get that garbage?
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(11-28-2016, 06:31 AM)chuck white Wrote:
(11-27-2016, 10:14 PM)orygunluvr Wrote: We were supposed to be ice free forever like last year wasn't it?

Where do you get that garbage?

Come on Chuck, you MUST know. 
You (or anyone really) can wrap your head in aluminum foil, don goggles with yelllow lens, sit under a tree once struck by lightning, hold a small frog in your left hand and ...."the truth shall be revealed to you".
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