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    The Imagery of Leonardo DiCaprio's Climate Speech at UN: Luxury Yachts & Private Jets

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    The Inconvenient Imagery of Leonardo DiCaprio's Climate Speech at UN: Luxury Yachts & Private Jets
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    The Inconvenient Imagery of Leo DiCaprio’s Climate Speech at the UN: Luxury Yachts & Private Jets

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    “You can either make history or be vilified by it,” Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio proclaimed before the United Nations. But did the award-winning actor condemn himself with his own words?
    A newly appointed UN Messenger of Peace, Leonardo DiCaprio implored those in his audience and the avowed activists of the Climate March to take action to ‘fight climate change.’
    With all the urgency of his greatest roles in cinema, Frank Abegnale Jr. Leo DiCaprio delivered his exhortation to the globe:
    Thank you, Mr Secretary General, your excellencies, ladies and gentleman, and distinguished guests. I’m honored to be here today, I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis.

    As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems.

    I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.
    Assuredly, DiCaprio includes as a part of humankind to be himself, his fellow actors, and politicians who have latched onto this decades-long “crisis,” but who have in the main exempted themselves from taking meaningful action about it themselves.

    Whether it’s Leonardo hiking a private jet to Brazil for the World Cup in 2014 (what if Argentina lost in the first-round, right?) or environmentally conscious Harrison Ford Indiana-Jonesing around the globe in a private jet, there’s a lot of stuff flying around, and it’s not just commuting celebrities.

    The Daily Mail reported about DiCaprio in particular:
    MailOnline can report that DiCaprio took at least 20 trips across the nation and around the world this year alone – including numerous flights from New York to Los Angeles and back, a ski vacation to the French Alps, another vacation to the French Riviera, flights to London and Tokoyo to promote his film Wolf of Wall Street, two trips to Miami and trip to Brazil to watch the World Cup. [...]

    Additionally, DiCaprio owns at least four homes: two apartments in New York and mansions in Hollywood and Palm Springs.

    He also recently sold an estate in Malibu for $17 million.

    Even the exalted one Al Gore bought beachfront property in Montecito and racked up more electricity usage than a small town, that is before selling his channel Current TV to the network Al Jazeera, which is backed by the Emir of the oil rich nation of Qatar.
    It all seems like a bunch of extravagant rhetoric coming from people whose occupation is to deliver carefully crafted, scripted lines to an an all-too-eagerly believing audience.

    DiCaprio wasn’t done yet. He wanted to convince us that natural disasters are something new and mankind can do something to prevent them:
    But I think we know better than that. Every week, we’re seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here now. We know that droughts are intensifying, our oceans are warming and acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from beneath the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, increased temperatures, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections.
    Regardless of how one thinks about the actual threat of manmade climate change, it is apparent that those in the self-described “ruling class” are more than happy to let the little people sacrifice on behalf of their sacred causes, but are unwilling to do what President Obama once described as putting a little “skin in the game.”


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    9/24/2014 09:32 AM

    EPA Chief: CO2 Regulations Are About ‘Justice’ For “communities of color.”

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    The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed global warming regulations aren’t just about stemming global temperature rises, according to agency’s chief, they are also about “justice” for “communities of color.” In a teleconference call with environmental activists, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said "Carbon pollution standards are an issue of justice. If we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change.” McCarthy is referring to the EPA’s proposed rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. The agency says the rule will not only help fight global warming, but will also improve public health as coal-fired power plants are shuttered.


    This article originally appeared on watchdog.org.
    As Watchdog.org reporter Bruce Parker vividly reported Sunday from inside the environmentalist carnival that was the People’s Climate March through midtown Manhattan, this pre-game show to Tuesday’s going-green confab in New York City showcased an array of left-loving characters.
    His greenness himself, former Vice President Al Gore was in attendance. So was Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. The vegans, the shamans, the commies, big labor, the socialists, and probably more than a few sociopaths all were on hand at what was billed as the largest climate-related protest in history.
    Along the parade route, from Central Park West to West 34th Street, the Big Apple was filled with an estimated 400,000 (by organizers’ estimates) trumpet blasting, drum-circle gathering, holistic medicine-ingesting participants.
    Welcome here was the Party for Socialism and Liberation and their sign that declared:
    Climate change is the symptom
    Capitalism is the disease
    Socialism is the cure
    The People’s Climate March was not a U.S. Chamber of Commerce kind of crowd.
    But besides promises of inclusiveness by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who invited world leaders from the public and private sectors to Tuesday’sClimate Summit 2014, you probably won’t find much sympathy or support here for the chamber’s point of view. Or the manufacturing sector. And certainly not the fossil-fuels industry.
    That’s because President Barack Obama and the climate-change crowd seem only interested in dire predictions when it comes to their environmental agenda. They’re not all that into the disastrous consequences extreme environmental regulations on business could have on the U.S. and global economy.
    “It’s one way to ramp up the messaging and frankly ramp up the sort of extreme positioning around this issue from that standpoint that they’re not going to recognize the economic impacts,” Betsy Monseu ,chief executive officer of the American Coal Council said of the People’s March.

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    The event was the directed by 350.org, the same climate activist group that has dogged the Keystone XL pipeline .
    While critics have labeled the Obama administration’s proposed stiff regulations on coal-fired power plants part of a “War on Coal,” Monseau said the issue is much bigger, and potentially much more economically damaging to the U.S. economy.
    “It’s a movement against the use of fossil fuels,” she said. “And I think there is some lack of recognition of the benefits of coal and coal-fired generation and what that means to economic development in the United States and what that could mean in other countries, especially emerging economies that will continue to develop coal because it is abundant, affordable and readily available.”
    Leonardo and Al may have turned out, but China President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi are each taking a pass on the Climate Summit.
    Those nations count for one-third of the world’s population and China ranks No. 1 and India No. 3 on the list of carbon dioxide emitters.
    “We look at this from the lens of how competitive is this going to make us,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of energy and resources policy for the National Association of Manufacturers. “If this is going to make us less competitive and we can’t get the international piece right (on emission standards) than why are we doing it?”
    Eisenberg said the manufacturers association will be watching closely what is going on in New York City this week, noting that the EPA’s proposed regulations on power plants in particular are causing U.S. manufacturers “a lot of heartburn right now.”
    Coal is vital to these mammoth economies, yet the Obama administration in particular is much more interested in subsidizing solar and wind energy than engaging clean-coal technology, Monseu said.
    “We are building some first-generation carbon capture and storage facilities, but we will need to get to second- and third-generation technology for them to be cost-effective and to be widely deployed,” she said. “The U.S. has the opportunity to lead through continued technological development and deployment that will be far more effective in reducing emissions around the world than simply creating artificial mechanisms (regulation) that are burdensome and costly from an administrative standpoint.”
    In short, there’s the world that environmentalists envision and then there is the real world, where economies are sustained or destroyed by regulatory actions that governments take.
    Solar and wind can’t be developed to the scale necessary to meet the electric needs of the United States. While there may be a role for alternative forms of energy, so far those portions of the nation’s energy portfolio have been heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.
    While its total footprint has declined, coal still fulfills approximately 40 percent of America’s electricity generation needs, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation.
    The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to significantly limit carbon dioxide emissions would stall new construction of coal-fired power plants and could shut down existing facilities.
    The Heritage Foundation’s analysis found that by the end of 2023, nearly 600,000 jobs will be lost, a family of four’s income will drop by $1,200 per year, and aggregate gross domestic product will drop by $2.23 trillion during the period should the EPA proposal go into effect.
    America’s manufacturing sector would be particularly harmed, accounting for 330,000 of the jobs lost, according to the analysis.
    In 2012, the cost of federal regulations cost U.S. companies more than $2 trillion, according to a NAM study. The analysis estimates environmental regulatory burden at $330 billion, but that only includes EPA rules that have cost-benefit analyses, which is not every rule. Overall, EPA accounts for more than half of the regulatory cost burden on manufacturers, Eisenberg said.
    The UN Secretary General website asserts the price will become much steeper for the global economy if the world’s nations don’t act now on climate change.
    “Climate change is disrupting national economies, costing us dearly today and even more tomorrow. But there is a growing recognition that affordable, scalable solutions are available now that will enable us all to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies,” the site insists.
    America’s manufacturing sector has led the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Eisenberg said. Between 2005 and 2013, U.S. industry cut CO2 by 13 percent. Advances in clean coal technologies and more efficient combustion systems have enabled U.S. power plants to reduce their regulated emissions by more than 60 percent since 1970, while increasing electric power output over the same period by 140 percent, according to the National Mining Association.
    “Manufacturers are committed to sustainability and energy efficiency and eliminating greenhouse gases, but we need to do it in a balanced way,” Eisenberg said.

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    In case you missed it, this MTV star flogged climate marcher Leonardo DiCaprio with one photo

    Posted at 10:07 am on September 22, 2014 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

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