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Limosine Liberals is what I believe they're called Leafs..........flying around in their private jets, the limo and big block SUV are idling at the private airport......and these people figure we can switch to wind daylight to supply our energy needs? Shoes? Clothes? McDonalds food containers? Medicines? Factories? The list goes on and on and we simply cannot swap/switch from one source to another overnight and expect to have enough energy...........and at a reasonable cost. The BS energy play propegated by the US prez was/is an attempt by him to pound the USA into a 4th world nation plain and simple and there is no need for Canada and her politicos to follow the US down that path of what could basically be called nationcide (suicide of a nation/or New Scrabble Word :) )
I present to you another "well-informed" Hollywood type who has also come to Alberta (but not to review the Tar Sands as they like to......see James Cameron the Director).......these people come up here and bloviate without having any inkling of wtf they they're talking about.....but because they are a star and political types (Liberals) they feel they know better than everyone and need to tell us what is and is not good for us.
Sorry for the venting here.
So here now is the copy/paste of another example of "foot in mouth syndrome" by these Hollywood types:
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ps>>>>> gotta say though that I dont mind a good Dicaprio film
‘It’s a Chinook’: Albertans mock Leo DiCaprio’s climate change comments
WATCH: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is taking some heat after saying he saw the effects of climate change first-hand while in Alberta filming his new move The Revenant.
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CALGARY – Albertans are poking fun of actor Leonardo DiCaprio over comments he made about having seen the effects of climate change firsthand while in Alberta filming his new movie The Revenant.
DiCaprio was quoted in the recent issue of Variety as saying “we would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.”
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The actor, who is working on a climate change documentary, said locals told him “this has never happened in our province ever.”
The problem is, the warm gusts of wind DiCaprio described are a common environmental occurrence in Calgary known as a Chinook.
READ MORE: What is a Chinook?
Global Calgary Meteorologist Jordan Witzel was a forecasting consultant for the movie while it was filming, and said Chinooks were a challenge for the crew, which had been hoping for snow.
“There were a lot of Chinooks through last year, more than average, so yes, we struggled with snow pack,” Witzel said.
The production was in such desperate need of snow that according to Vanity Fair, snow guns were brought in.
“It was scary,” said DiCaprio in Variety. “I’ve never experienced something so firsthand that was so dramatic.”
Witzel, meanwhile, suggests DiCaprio witnessed more Chinooks than Calgarians are used to.
“A stronger El Nino season means more Chinooks,” explained Witzel. “Late last fall and into the winter was the beginning, the building of those warm ocean temperatures and the strong El Nino that we’re now seeing.”
“You cannot make a statement on climate change based on a weather event,” added Witzel. “Weather is what’s happening now; climate is what we would expect to happen into the future
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