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Dismal ratings for DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood’ – beaten by ‘Bubble Guppies’
Anthony Watts/23 hours agoNovember 1, 2016
The weekend ratings are out, and they aren’t good news for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood‘, which wereviewed yesterdayon WUWT. Showbuzz Daily has listed the top 150 TV and Cable programs for the weekend, and in ‘the hottest year ever’, discussing the ‘most important topic ever’,Before the Flood came in at #61 for the weekend.



Ironically, the kids show “Bubble Guppies”beat it at #53. Ouch.

Perhaps this snoozer didn’t do so well because of the stellarcast of characters?



I mean, who wouldn’t want to tune in and have a jet-setting actor-millionaire, a government handout beneficiary, a Pope, the globe-trotting Secretary of State, the lame-duck president, the ‘Horndog-in-Chief” and the leader of the U.N. come on for 96 minutes and berate you for doing things like driving your car, eating hamburgers, and just not caring enough about the planet like they do while looking down on us from their private planes?

This review on IMDB, says it all:

Al Gore says it’s so and therefore it is?
"Basically DeCaprio was told by Al Gore (who has made a hundred millions of dollars by preaching global warming after he retired from political life, gained a bunch of weight and had nothing to do) that anthropological global warming is real, and from that point onward DeCaprio was convinced. LOL! Then DeCaprio presents the ole “97% of scientists” lie that has traveled around the world. In reality 66% of scientists have no opinion about AGW — Those opinions were conveniently thrown out of the messaged John Cook study. Then DeCaprio presents cherry picked anecdotal evidence, without ever questioning whether it’s a case of Texas Sharpshooting. Why didn’t he present the Vostok Station / Greenland ice core data to put the last 100 years IN PERSPECTIVE versus the last 5,000 years, 11,000 years and 420,000 years? And if he’s such a big fan of anecdotal evidence over temperature data then why didn’t he mention that Greenland used to be green? That 20,000 years ago New York was covered by a mile thick glacier? Why didn’t DeCaprio interview Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who is not part of “Big Oil” and doesn’t buy into AGW? Because DeCaprio suffers from confirmation bias. The rest of this propaganda piece (I mean movie) continues under the ASSUMPTION that humans are causing the planet to warm and we all need to agree to tax ourselves more. No thanks."

 

[aix_xpert]

Whats interesting is that I do believe humans overly contribute to global warming and the pollution of our planet. Yet, I haven't seen one lefty actually propose a reasonable idea of how to address it. Common sense solutions aren't "good enough" (such as promoting natural gas over coal/oil based on its cleanliness and abundance). Instead we want to push tax penalties and production caps against energy companies and promote and mandate solutions that either don't exist (cellulosic biofuel for example) or simply aren't mainstream enough to be cost-effective (wind & solar power generation). The problem is that the promoters of these policies are the ones who can afford them (or even profit off them - just ask Al Gore). Much like the ACA, the wealthy leftist elites (who claim to care about the poor) don't care if these programs result in highly recessive taxes, because they can afford to pay a little more. But the real middle-class, (the ones above government hand-outs but below private jets) are continued to be made poorer for these actions. And as this program's rating apprantly showed, people are getting tired of having elite, millionaire leftists tell the rest of us just how deplorable we are as people.

Justin

 

[squeak]

Bubble Guppies will actually do more to keep our planet cleaner than any global warming video.

The fact that we think we can destroy our planet is the most arrogant human thing ever.