Leonardo DiCaprio

Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Watch
By Noel Sheppard | November 4, 2007 | 7:34 PM EST

While media members fawn over Hollywood productions about manmade global warming such as Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and Leonardo DiCaprio's box office disaster "The Eleventh Hour," they should take time out of their busy propagandist schedules to view a lecture that Australian research professor Bob Carter recently gave.

In fact, it should be required viewing for any member of the press who wants to report about climate change, for it more thoroughly and concisely explains the science refuting the current alarmism than anything to date.

During the roughly 37-minute lecture given at the Annual Conference of the Australian Environmental Foundation on September 8th in Melbourne (luckily caught on videotape, multiple links to follow), Carter debunked the hysterical claims regularly espoused by warm-mongers such as:

Sen. Inhofe Slams Gore and Climate Alarmism in Historic Two Hour Speech
By Noel Sheppard | October 26, 2007 | 5:14 PM EDT

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, delivered a startling and historic two hour speech on the Senate floor Friday about "recent developments which are turning 2007 into a ‘tipping point' for climate alarmism."

The Senator cautioned that bills being proposed by various members of Congress "come at a time when the science is overwhelmingly taking away the basis for alarm." These "so-called ‘solutions' to global warming...will have no measurable impact on the climate," and "will create huge economic harm for American families and the poor residents of the developing world who may see development hindered by unfounded climate fears."

In addition, Inhofe went right after the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore, as well as others in the media responsible for inciting all this hysteria (partial video of the speech available here):

Global Warming Media Disaster: DiCaprio’s ‘11th Hour’ Bombs at Box Office
By Noel Sheppard | September 5, 2007 | 1:21 PM EDT

More evidence that Al Gore's Live Earth flop was indeed the beginning of the end to the public's fascination with global warming: Leonardo DiCaprio's recently released film on the subject has bombed with moviegoers.

As reported by Fox News's Roger Friedman Wednesday (emphasis added throughout):

His environmental documentary, "The 11th Hour," has been a total bust at the box office. After 18 days in release, the film has grossed only $417,913 from ticket sales.

As Friedman pointed out, these are horrible numbers:

'11th Hour' Review Says Film is 'Unfocused'
By Pam Meister | August 31, 2007 | 9:51 AM EDT

It'll be interesting to see how many people spend an hour and a half in the theater this Labor Day weekend watching Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary about how we are teetering on the edge of global warming catastrophe.

Greenpeace Co-founder Slams DiCaprio’s New Global Warming Film
By Noel Sheppard | August 29, 2007 | 12:54 PM EDT

Here's something you don't see every day: an environmentalist bashing an environmentalist.

Yet, such was the case Wednesday when Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, slammed the new Leonardo DiCaprio film "The 11th Hour" as the "latest climate-change rant" representing "another example of anti-forestry scare tactics" which sadly indicated that "we're losing sight of some indisputable facts."

As a result, "[t]his film should be a good, clear reminder for us to put the science before the Hollywood hype."

As reported by The Vancouver Sun (emphasis added throughout, thanks to all who brought this my attention):

NYT: Leonardo DiCaprio Trying to Save the World, But No One's Listening
By Clay Waters | August 17, 2007 | 2:13 PM EDT

Reliably liberal New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis lauded activist-actor Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour," the latest documentary of environmental apocalypse.

A Really Inconvenient Truth: Kyoto Protocol Destroying Ozone Layer
By Noel Sheppard | August 15, 2007 | 11:01 AM EDT

Here's something the mainstream media are guaranteed to ignore: "The biggest emissions-cutting projects under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming have directly contributed to an increase in the production of gases that destroy the ozone layer, a senior U.N. official says."

Didn't hear about this? Well, how could you, for although Reuters published its article on the subject Monday, no other mainstream press outlet thought it was newsworthy.

Not one!

Alas, there were even more worrisome revelations in this Reuters piece that folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio would find very inconvenient if media actually did their job and reported them (h/t Benny Peiser, emphasis added throughout):

CBS's Julie Chen Endorses Leonardo DiCaprio's Alarmist Film
By Justin McCarthy | August 13, 2007 | 3:50 PM EDT

Julie Chen followed Barbara Walters’ lead in endorsing a global warming alarmist film, this time on Leonardo DiCaprio’s upcoming documentary, "The 11th Hour." The August 13 edition of "The Early Show" ran an unchallenged piece on DiCaprio’s film, then this exchange between co-hosts Harry Smith and Julie Chen.