You could read them and decide for yourself, if you could be bothered.
According to The New York Post, the private jet flights expanded his carbon footprint by 8,000 miles.
During his Oscar acceptance speech earlier this year, DiCaprio had said, “Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species.”
Robert Rapier, an environmental analyst, told the Post that DiCaprio's history of private jets and yachts "diminishes his moral authority to lecture others on reducing their own carbon emissions."
“[He] demonstrates exactly why our consumption of fossil fuels continues to grow," Rapier said. "It’s because everyone loves the combination of cost and convenience they offer. Alternatives usually require sacrifice of one form or another. Everybody says, ‘I’ve got a good reason for consuming what I consume’ ... It’s the exact same rationalization for billions of people."
Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report after government intervention
Exclusive: All mentions of Australia were removed from the final version of a Unesco report on climate change and world heritage sites after the Australian government objected on the grounds it could impact on tourism
Revealed: Guardian Australia has obtained the Unesco report Australia didn’t want the world to see. Read it now
Great Barrier Reef
Michael Slezak
Friday 27 May 2016 06.07 AEST
Every reference to Australia was scrubbed from the final version of a major UN report on climate change after the Australian government intervened, objecting that the information could harm tourism.
Guardian Australia can reveal the report “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate”, which Unesco jointly published with the United Nations environment program and the Union of Concerned Scientists on Friday, initially had a key chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as small sections on Kakadu and the Tasmanian forests.
But when the Australian Department of Environment saw a draft of the report, it objected, and every mention of Australia was removed by Unesco. Will Steffen, one of the scientific reviewers of the axed section on the reef, said Australia’s move was reminiscent of “the old Soviet Union”.
No sections about any other country were removed from the report. The removals left Australia as the only inhabited continent on the planet with no mentions.
Explaining the decision to object to the report, a spokesperson for the environment department told Guardian Australia: “Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary about the status of world heritage properties impacted on tourism.”
How can we make Climate Change "go away " ?
Really if your the Federal Liberal Government of De Nile it's simple. You just make sure no one publishes anything about the impact of CC on Australia.
Da Da !! It's all gone away.v
Now that may sound like a fairy tale that not even the most brain dead, idiotic, denialist could muster up. But of course that doesn't do justice to the exquisitely brain dead, idiotic, denialists we have in our current government. Check out their efforts .
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...e-change-report-after-government-intervention
Which raises the question, how can these reports be taken seriously when they are subject to the whims of government. I am sure the story is true, but what does it say about UNESCO. Can what it says be taken seriously anymore?
This story is growing quickly. SMH is now covering it. As is the ABC.
Somehow it appears that Minister Greg Hunt had absolutely nothing to do with the demand that the offending report be removed. He knew NOTHING according to the Department of the Environment. Not told, not briefed.
Let's see how the principles of Ministerial accountability holds up here. I don't believe it will pass the pub test.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/a...id-damaging-reef-tourism-20160526-gp4zzo.html
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4470533.htm
Looks like a good idea to put our economy in jeopardy with a carbon tax (or whatever).
Meanwhile......
Bangladesh, regarded by many as the nation most vulnerable to the impacts of global climate change, is on track to construct two coal-fired power plants.
A major driver behind these new power power plants is to increase electricity resources for Bangladesh’s 157 million people and achieve its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2021. Currently, the country produces 8,000 megawatts of electricity but the demand strongly outweighs supply, with regular power outages that last for hours.
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/b...l-power-plant-project-despite-major-backlash/
Japanese to bankroll $4.6bn Bangladesh coal-fired power plants
http://www.powerengineeringint.com/...4-6bn-bangladesh-coal-fired-power-plants.html
No doubt the bad climate will hang over Bangladesh for a long time.
Why can't we be as brave and desperate as Bangladesh.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/29/a-major-malaise-of-climatology-is-pervasive-in-science/
...Here is what former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015 said.
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,”
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy...
My bolds. Save that the alarmists can, like a rabbit out of a hat, produce a new Galileo of climate science..their story is told, just another thought bubble from the Arts faculty.
It's hot, no it's cold..only Left wing politics can save us..
Maybe Leo could lead by example
The Great Barrier Reef is losing its adjective and it's our fault - June 3, 2016 - Tim Flannery
SMH:http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-g...-our-fault-20160602-gp9qsh.html#ixzz4AUsQJMAc
...A green turtle passes by. As the dead reef breaks down, its habitat will be eroded to rubble...
...This great organism, the size of Germany and arguably the most diverse place on earth, is dying before our eyes. Having watched my father dying two years ago, I know what the signs of slipping away are. This is death, which ever-rising temperatures will allow no recovery from. Unless we act now...
The classic contrarian signal. Go long on the reef folks, it's about to make an impressive recovery (as it always does after el ninos)
As it has done for 500,000 years...As I have personally observed for over 80 years.....The reef is NOT dying as those radical Greens try to make out.....What utter propaganda to strengthen their stupid argument about Global warming.
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