Another uneducated Hollywood moron who lacks a shred of credible evidence to support anything he says and supported by another off-the-wall nut who also needs no evidence to support his theories. Fortunately the world is not run by radical environmentalists but are run by clear-headed executives who listen to rational science and implement prudent actions. These people don't need evidence because they already have a platform, so why bother with facts?

This may one time where an actor played a character on screen and actually has the qualifications.  I mean did he not play Howard Hughs?  He doesnt have the intelegence of Howard but certainly has the signs of insanity.  Yep he definitally has the cred for being crazy.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.

If Vanity Fair really wanted to have a "Green Issue", they wouldn't have printed their magazine on paper.  They would have converted to an internet magazine. Somehow, Leo must have missed the irony of that.

Another example of "do as I say, not as I do" logic.

As the so-called prophet of global warming, Al Gore has declared that the science is irrefutable, and the debate is over.   We need do nothing now other than act. 

And, the lemmings like DiCaprio merely follow along to the piper's tune, never delving into the science themselves, nor adjusting their life styles to fit their rhetoric.

I can not believe the Arrogance of these people!!??  They actually think that they have the power to change the planet's atmosphere.  WOW!  I'm impressed!

Leo....go home to your Mommy.

This thought just hit me. How many of you watch the "Celebrity" editions of any of the many game shows out there; especially ones that require thinking and knowledge of basic topics (Jeopardy, Millionaire, even Street Smarts)? Over the years, and from the ones I saw, I doubt a single celebrity has ever been told he/she has the chance at setting a record (except for wrong answers).

I'd like to propose this, put Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio on any game show with questions related to the science of climatology but without any global warming related questions. Jeopardy, or even Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?, would be the perfect testing grounds to show how little of the science these idiots know.

Nowadays, the term "journalistic integrity" sounds like an oxymoron.

How fitting that Leo is standing under the word "Vanity".

Dutch

Yes, devastating for our stupidity in publishing people who "pretend/act" for a living!   Humans are at records levels--not just total numbers, but  also life expectancy per person.   Hardly the outcome if we were truly "devastating" the world.    When humans really misbehave, then nature uses its own cleansing methods (i.e. the plague) to weed out the offenders.Seems to me like we're doing something right (granted, kudos are do to the natural global warming cycle that began 40,000 years ago which has allowed us to farm far greater areas).    Plus, man has helped reclaim species like the eagle and timberwolves.Meanwhile, nature  will occasionally slam an asteroid on earth, that is the real deal.   Enjoy every day, one never knows what tomorrow will bring.  Hopefully, no more carbon hypocrites like Leo and Al :o)

Obviously Mr. Hawken doesn't read the literature, like real scientists do.  Here is a list of just a few of the MANY peer-reviewed scientific articles published in refereed journals, that either explain the natural processes at work in our environment that are responsible for climate fluctations or plainly argues against anthropogenic global warming.

VARIOUS ARTICLES SEE:

-Campbell ID, Campbell C, Apps MJ, Rutter NW, Bush ABG (1998) Late Holocene 1500 yr climatic periodicities and their implications. Geology: Vol. 26, No. 5 pp. 471-473

-Kouwenberg L, Wagner R, Kürschner W, Visscher H (2005) Atmospheric CO2 fluctuations during the last millennium reconstructed by stomatal frequency analysis of Tsuga heterophylla needles. Geology: Vol. 33, No. 1 pp. 33-36

-David G. Vaughan1, Gareth J. Marshall1, William M. Connolley1, Claire Parkinson2, Robert Mulvaney1, Dominic A. Hodgson1, John C. King1, Carol J. Pudsey1 and John Turner, Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, Climatic Change, Volume 60, Number 3 / October, 2003

-Carol J. Pudsey1 and Jeffrey Evans, First survey of Antarctic sub–ice shelf sediments reveals mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat, Geology; September 2001; v. 29; no. 9; p. 787-790;

-Ian D. Campbell, Celina Campbell, Michael J. Apps, Nathaniel W. Rutter, and Andrew B. G. Bush, Late Holocene approximately 1500 yr climatic periodicities and their implications, Geology; May 1998; v. 26; no. 5; p. 471-473;

-Mark A. Hemer1, Peter T. Harris2, Sediment core from beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, suggests mid-Holocene ice-shelf retreat, Geology; February 2003; v. 31; no. 2; p. 127-130;

-Barnosky AD, Hadly EA, Bell CJ (2003) MAMMALIAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING ON VARIED TEMPORAL SCALES. Journal of Mammalogy: Vol. 84, No. 2 pp. 354-368

PAST CLIMATE HISTORY SEE:

-Lamb, H. H., 1995, Climate, history, and the modern world, 2d ed.: New York, Routledge, 433 p.

-Moore, P. D., B. Chaloner, and P. Stott, 1996, Global environmental change: Oxford, England, Blackwell Science, 244 p.

-Alley, R. B., and P. U. Clark, 1999, The deglaciation of the Northern Hemisphere: A global perspective: Annual Reviews, Earth and Planetary Science, v. 27, p. 149182.

-Conway, H., B. L. Hall, G. H. Denton, A. M. Gades, and E. D. Waddington, 1999, Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic ice sheet: Science, v. 286, p. 280283.

-Bluemle, J. P., J. Sable, and W. Karlen, 2001, Rate and magnitude of past global climate changes, in L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., 2001 geological perspectives of global climate change: AAPG Studies in Geology 47, p. 193212.

-Broecker, W. S., 2001, Was the medieval warm period global?: Science, v. 291, p. 14971499.

-Davis, J. C., and G. Bohling, 2001, The search for patterns in ice-core temperature curves, in L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., 2001 geological perspectives of global climate change: AAPG Studies in Geology 47, p. 213230.

-Gerhard, L. C., W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., 2001 geological perspectives of global climate change: AAPG Studies in Geology 47, 373 p.

-Kotov, S., 2001, Near-term climate prediction using ice core data from Greenland, in L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., 2001 geological perspectives of global climate change: AAPG Studies in Geology 47, chapter 3, p. 305316.

-Bell, J., 2002, Tip of the Martian iceberg?: Science, v. 297, p. 6061.

-Moberg, A., D. M. Sonechkin, K. Holmgren, N. M. Datsenko, and W. Karlen, 2005, Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data: Nature v. 433, no. 7026, p. 613617.

ON THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR AND ORBITAL VARIABILITY SEE:

-Labitzke, K., and H. van Loon, 1988, Associations between the 11-year solar cycle, the QBO, and the atmosphere: I. The troposphere and stratosphere in the northern hemisphere in winter: Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, v. 50, p. 197206.

-Friis-Christensen, E., and K. Lassen, 1991, Length of the solar cycle: An indicator of solar activity closely associated with climate: Science, v. 254, p. 698700.

-Reid, G. C., 1991, Solar total irradiance variation and the global sea surface temperature record: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 28352844.

-Hoyt, D. V., and K. H. Schatten, 1997, The role of the sun in climate change: New York, Oxford University Press, 279 p.

-Bond, G., B. Kromer, J. Beer, R. Muscheler, M. N. Evans, W. Showers, S. Hoffmann, R. Lotti-Bond, I. Hajdas, and G. Bonani, 2001, Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene: Science, v. 294, no. 5549, p. 21302136.

-Khodri, M., Y. Leclalnche, G. Ramstein, P. Braconnot, O. Marti, and E. Cortijo, 2001, Simulating the amplification of orbital forcing by ocean feedbacks in the last glaciation: Nature, v. 410, p. 570574.

-Naish, T. R., et al., 2001, Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctica ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary: Nature, v. 413, p. 719723.

-Pekarek, A., 2001, Solar forcing of Earth's climate, in L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson, eds., 2001 geological perspectives of global climate change: AAPG Studies in Geology 47, p. 1934.

-Carslaw, K. S., R. G. Harrison, and J. Kirkby, 2002, Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate: Science, v. 298, p. 17321737.

-Sharma, M., 2002, Variations in solar magnetic activity during the last 200,000 years: Is there a sun-climate connection?: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 199, p. 459472.

-Zahn, R., 2002, Milankovitch and climate, the orbital code of climate change: Journal Orthodoxe d'Informations Ecclsiales, v. 28, no. 1, p. 1722.

-Hu, F. S., D. Kaufman, S. Yoneji, D. Nelson, A. Shemesh, Y. Huang, J. Tian, G. Bond, B. Clegg, and T. Brown, 2003, Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan Subarctic: Science, v. 301, p. 18901893.

-Tsiropoula, G., 2003, Signatures of solar activity variability in meteorological parameters: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, v. 65, p. 469482.

-Shaviv, N. J., and J. Veizer, 2003, Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?: GSA Today, v. 13, no. 7, p. 410.

ON CO2 AND TEMPERATURE SEE:

-Fischer, H., M. Wahlen, J. Smith, D. Mastoianni, and B. Deck, 1999, Ice core records of atmospheric CO2 around the last three glacial terminations: Science, v. 283, p. 17121714.

-Petit, J. R., et al., 1999, Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica: Nature, v. 399, p. 429436.

CONCERNING THE 'HOCKEY STICK' GRAPH SEE:

-Esper, J., E. R. Cook, and F. H. Schweingruber, 2002, Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability: Science, v. 295, p. 22502253 (see also Mann and Hughes' critique and Cook and Esper's response, Science, v. 296, p. 848849).

-McIntyre, S., and R. McKitrick, 2003, Corrections to the Mann et al. (1998) proxy data base and Northern Hemispheric average temperature series: Energy and Environment, v. 14, no. 6, p. 751771.

But I guess Mr. Hawken has failed to read or acknowledge these, along with the numerous others out there, as they do not fit his view of the world nor his agenda.  Check them out if you get time, there is a lot of good information in these articles.  It is amazing what you find when you seek out the truth....

S & T

"The is no place for politics in science"

What is it about acting in films that makes all these people political and scientific geniuses?

Does that mean college professors would make good actors? Just wondering....

I'd like to thank Doctor DiCaprio for his wonderful contributions to The Greatest Hoax Ever.

Apparently the polar bear cub used in the photoshop image is none other than Knut from Berlin Zoo, who was abandoned at birth and then marked for death by animal rights activists.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/19/polar.bear.ap/index.html

In related news, Timothy Ball the former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada has been named as the next Batman.

standing at the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon in southeast Iceland

You know, Vanity Fair might want to do some research before they pick out photo locations in the future. I was trying to see if perhaps Leo was underdressed for the temperature. Instead I found this site which contains an interesting description of Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon that's not exactly the dire apocalypse that the alarmists are predicting:

When Vatnajokull, Europes largest glacier, began it´s retreat from the
shore of south Iceland around 1950, it left behind a lagoon around 100
meters deep, filled with cold meltwater and huge icebergs that head out to
the sea.

The colours and shapes of the Jokulsarlon are astounding its one of the
greatest natural wonders in Iceland, travelling in this dreamlike world,
dwarfed by the calving icebergs, man marvels at the majestic magnitude of
nature. A august sight you can never get enough of.

Waahhh! I'm scared.

Not one of these bungholes even gets themselves a nice Toyota camry or fuel efficient car. It's always jets, limos and Enzos. Much less, since southern CA is such nice weather, driving a motorcycle, which even with obscene performance still gets well over 50mpg

"The things we do 'For The Children'"

How many of you really care what Leo says?

I know I don't.

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.