#Matthew takes aim on Florida, likely to end 4000 day major hurricane drought for USA
…Watch: Morano on TV: 1.7 million Australians experience crippling blackout after switch to ‘green’ energy
…Watch: Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore rejects climate fear: ‘CO2 is not the enemy. It is actually the reason that we are alive’
Moore, who has a PhD in ecology, explains:
Is the Earth warming? Well, yes, there’s been slight warming in the past 300 years since the peak of the Little Ice Age. But guess what? There’s no scientific proof that this is caused by carbon dioxide. And simply asserting a hypothesis does not prove it to be true.
But that doesn’t stop environmentalists, activists, and the most troubling – politicians – from calling carbon dioxide a toxic pollutant that will destroy life and bring civilization to its knees. It’s so bad that governments say we need to tax it!
So what would happen if eco-activists got their wish and brought an end to all CO2 emissions from fossil fuels?
Well, eventually the earth would begin to die…
WATCH the whole thing, as Moore explains the real science in a down to earth way.…
WaPo: ‘It’s been 16 years since DiCaprio interviewed a prez on climate. And situation is now much worse’
While actor Leonardo DiCaprio will generate plenty of buzz when he speaks with President Obama and atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe on the South Lawn on Monday night, it’s worth noting that this is not the first time the Oscar winner has interviewed an American president about the state of the climate.
It’s just that this time, the climate is in much, much worse shape.
DiCaprio sat down with Bill Clinton in the White House in March 2000, when he was in town to host a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. During that event, DiCaprio asked Clinton why the issue of global warming was “so constantly overlooked,” and whether he would rank it as important as health care and education.
“Oh yes, over the long run, it’s one of the two or three major issues facing the world over the next 30 years,” Clinton replied. “I think it’s because it takes a long time for the climate to change in a way that people feel it, and because it seems sort of abstract now.”
[When DiCaprio talked climate change at the Oscars, people suddenly cared]
While Clinton took pains to detail some of the evidence, noting at the time that nine of the 11 “warmest years on record have occurred in the last decade,” most of the impacts he described would occur in the future.
“So, the climate is changing, and the globe is warming at an unsustainable rate,” the president said. “And if it is not slowed and ultimately reversed, what will happen is, the polar ice caps will melt more rapidly; sea levels will rise; you will have the danger of flooding in places like the precious Florida Everglades or the sugar cane fields of Louisiana; island nations could literally be buried.”
DiCaprio, who stars in and produced the new National Geographic film on climate change, “Before the Flood,” will talk with Obama as part of the White House’s South by South Lawn festival.…
Canada releases plans for a nationwide carbon tax
Canadian provinces will have two years to implement their own carbon pricing scheme, otherwise they will have to adopt a nationwide carbon tax, according to a government statement released Monday afternoon.
The news came after the Ministers of the Environment met to discuss the country’s environmental and climate goals in advance of this year’s U.N. Conference on Climate Change, which will begin on November 7 in Morocco.
Canadian Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna previously alluded to the idea that the national government might compel provinces to adopt some kind of uniform carbon price if the provinces themselves did not act to adopt one, but was vague on details. Four provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec — currently have some kind of price on carbon, representing 80 percent of Canada’s population.
Canada’s federal government takes a cue from British Columbia’s price on carbon…
‘Global warming’ to cause increase in the ‘potency of heroin’ – Will a carbon tax make heroin less potent?!
Greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in a warming world may have a drastic effect on the potency of opium poppies, according to a new study.
While this increase might mean more morphine available for legal pharmaceutical uses, the painkiller is also the main ingredient in heroin.
The speed of the biological changes affecting plants’ alkaloid levels suggests that the climate may have a greater impact on plant life than computer models had generally predicted, Ziska says Lewis Ziska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory.
The net result, according to Ziska, is that climate change’s impacts on plants are likely to be chaotic and difficult to predict. For example, he says, “wheat may make more seeds, but we may have stronger poison ivy and poppies.”
Obama, DiCaprio team up against climate change
President Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio walk to the stage to talk about climate change as part of the White House South by South Lawn event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington,Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. (AP Photo)
Washington: President Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up on the White House South Lawn on Monday to sound a call for urgent action to combat climate change.
Obama told a crowd gathered for the ‘South by South Lawn’ festival of technology and music that the world is in “a race against time” to combat climate change.
The president said the world gets an “incomplete” grade on its response to global warming so far, but he added that “the good news is we can still pass the test.”
“I tend to be a cautious optimist about our ability to make change,” Obama said.
Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton was mentioned in the discussion, but their presence was nonetheless felt.…
Obama hosts DiCaprio & Warmist Hayhoe at White House for climate summit
…DiCaprio: Climate deniers ‘should not be allowed to hold public office’
Politicians who don’t believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.
“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”
DiCaprio screened his film “Before the Flood,” a documentary about climate change. Ahead of the screening, he spoke on a panel with President Obama.
“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.
“The political system in every country is not well designed to do something tough now to solve a problem that people will really feel the impact of in the future.”
In the film, DeCaprio travels to Greenland, the Pacific Islands, Sumatra and industrial regions of China to show the impacts of climate change.
DiCaprio, and the film’s director, Fisher Stevens, hope to use it in the run-up to next month’s presidential and Senate elections, according to The Guardian.
They plan to show it on college campuses and across swing states. It will be released via National Geographic later this month.…
Leo DiCaprio’s Using His Global Warming Film To Go After Republicans
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s new global warming film is set to debut in several swing states before the election, but not before its director went on an unhinged rant against Republicans in a recent interview.
Fisher Stevens, the director of DiCaprio’s film “Before the Flood,” told Politico’s Morning Energy they plan screenings in Florida Tuesday, followed by showings in swing states, like Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Stevens said in Florida they’d “highlight that Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott are both climate skeptics, despite the state being on the frontlines of climate change,” reports Politico. Stevens thinks DiCaprio’s voice on global warming can move Americans to action.
“I’m not going to be so bold as to say we can do much – we’re just a little documentary – but [DiCaprio] has a big voice,” Stevens said of the film, which is set to premier on National Geographic channel at the end of October.
Stevens took aim at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who he sees as the biggest threat to civilization.
“If he wins, it’s not just climate change that I’m so terrified of, it’s the entire world civilization as we know it,” Stevens said. “I’m scared for world order. Period.”
Stevens credited Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with “definitely taking it seriously” and noted DiCaprio has spoken to her several times about global warming.
Stevens also went on an unhinged rant against Republican lawmakers he saw as jeopardizing the future of the planet.
“He, personally, is responsible for putting his grandchildren’s futures in jeopardy,” Stevens said of Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
“I don’t know if we can ever change James Inhofe and make him understand, and that’s sad because it’s amazing his position of power,” Stevens said before shifting his attack to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.