Leonardo DiCaprio is a talented actor and he has enjoyed incredible success but in my opinion he recently lost credibility as an authority on environmental issues.
In a Variety.com article, Leo spoke about his first hand encounter with a southern Alberta Chinook. For those of us who live here and love the warm chinook winds during the winter, his comments are quite hilarious. He stated: “I’ve never experienced something so first-hand that was so dramatic. You see the fragility of nature and how easily things can be completely transformed with just a few degrees difference. It’s terrifying, and it’s what people are talking about all over the world. And it’s simply just going to get worse,” said DiCaprio.
“We were in Calgary and the locals were saying, ‘This has never happened in our province ever.’ We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come.”
DiCaprio may find chinook winds terrifying but the really sad thing is that many people will take his comments as fact and believe that Southern Alberta chinooks are a result of climate change.
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Did you know that Canada was the first country to issue a Christmas themed postage stamp? We did this all the way back in 1898.
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The big guy in the red suit might need to become more tech savvy to communicate with today’s youth. The other day when Santa Claus was at the Okotoks Recreation Centre, a little girl climbed onto Santa’s lap, Santa asked the usual, “And what would you like for Christmas?” The child stared at him open mouthed and horrified for a minute, then gasped, “Didn’t you get my E-mail?”
