Links tagged “hollywood”
- Leonardo DiCaprio warns: ‘We literally have a nine year window’ to stop climate change – ‘There’s a ticking clock’
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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- ‘Welcome to the end of democracy’: Climate change being used to ‘implement’ a ‘Great Reset’ – ‘The new autocracies’ are monitoring ‘our lives in ways that Mao, Stalin or Hitler would have envied’
"The lockdowns served as a 'test run' for necessary measures to realise their preferred climate-change policies.'
Joel Kotkin is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class: "For the middle and working classes, however, the Great Reset may prove somewhat less promising — if not disastrous. For most people, notes Eric Heymann, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research, the rapid 'green' transition will mean 'a noticeable loss of welfare and jobs.' The conscious policy of degrowth as a means of forcibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require getting most people out of their cars, and forcing them to travel far less and to live in tiny apartments. Enforcement will be necessarily intrusive as well. Planners in the UK and elsewhere are pushing for family 'carbon budgets.' Add surveillance technology and we end up with something akin to China’s 'social credit' system, in which your right to free movement is subject to government approval. ...
"The [COVID] emergency allowed governments to grant them unprecedented executive and administrative powers not just in centralised France but even in usually semi-sensible Great Britain and Australia. For some, the lockdowns served as a 'test run' for necessary measures to realise their preferred climate-change policies. In the new schema, the real class enemy is not the excesses of the ultra-rich, or even wasteful spending by government: it’s the consumption patterns of the masses. ... The early-twentieth-century Italian sociologist Robert Michels noted that complex issues — climate, for instance — reinforce what he called the 'iron law of oligarchy': the more dependent on expertise a society becomes, the greater the need for elite-driven solutions that bypass popular input — and the greater the force the elite will apply to attain its goals."
- Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate scientist role was inspired by Michael Mann- ‘I am honored’ declares Mann – Weighs in on being a sex symbol
- Critics say Dicaprio’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ is not a very good movie, but as an analogy for climate change it’s even worse
- Alex Epstein’s Rebuttal Talking Points on Dicaprio’s film ‘Don’t Look Up’ – Film falsely equates CO2 with ‘the comet’
- We’re saved! ‘Earth Emergency’ on PBS – Richard Gere narrates new documentary on how global warming is leading to a point of no return – Featuring Greta Thunberg & Jane Fonda!
- Green Thinking Is The New Dogma Of The Ruling Class
- Leonardo DiCaprio says his new movie about a comet destroying the Earth is actually about science denial & climate change
- UN climate summit COP26 ‘had carbon footprint TWICE as big as last conference’
Preliminary report finds 102,500 tonnes of CO2 was pumped into atmosphere due to Glasgow summit... compared to 51,101 from Madrid in 2019
Report states 102,500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent is due to be released by summit
Around 60% is from international flights taken by world and business leaders
Jeff Bezos led a 400-strong parade of private jets into Cop26 a fortnight ago
Findings come as conference nears the end of its second full week in Glasgow
- NYT’s Tom Friedman: ‘How in the world are we going to… make the lifestyle sacrifices needed to dampen the increasingly destructive effects of global warming?’
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‘Global warming’ has saved 500,000 lives in England & Wales in the last 20 years – ‘Cold temperature deaths greatly outnumbers deaths associated with warm temperatures’
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‘Unprecedentedly few’: ‘2021 had the fewest global hurricanes in the satellite era’ & 2nd fewest strong hurricanes since 1980
. Bjorn Lomborg: "Hurricanes in 2021 were unprecedented — as in unprecedentedly few. Globally, 2021 had the fewest hurricanes ever in the satellite era (1980-2021). Globally, 2021 had some of the fewest strong hurricanes in the satellite era (1980-2021). With 16 strong (Cat 3+) hurricanes, 2021 was the second-lowest strong hurricane year since 1980. Globally, 2021 was a weak hurricane year. When measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), 2021 was the 9th weakest year. Did you see that reported anywhere?
Hurricanes in 2021 were weak and exceptionally few. But we heard lots about North Atlantic hurricanes. Conveniently, North Atlantic is the only basin where hurricanes are stronger. Does this leave us well-informed?. But we hear lots about names storms (hurricanes + weaker storms). Ever-easier to detect, so numbers keep climbing (4 of 2020s 30 named storms wouldn't have been named in 2000!). Not as relevant, but hey, scary numbers."
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Physicist Dr. Ed Berry explains ‘why climate change is a fraud’
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Paper in Health Physics finds ‘upper limit of human CO2 in the atmosphere is 11.6%, which (as of 2020) is 48 ppm of the 415-ppm total’
