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HYPOCRISY WATCH: George Clooney Loves the Environment – And a Giant Carbon Footprint

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George Clooney feels very strongly about the environment. So much so he went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show to call climate change skeptics a whole lot of bad names. (Follow the link to see what he had to say.)

One would assume Clooney is doing his part to reduce his carbon footprint to protect the environment, right? Well … no.

Clooney loves private plans more than he loves fighting climate change. Here’s a look at some of his publicized private flights around the world:

July 2018: “George Clooney was spotted boarding a private jet to make his way out …

HYPOCRISY WATCH: Flight Attendants’ Union Backs Green New Deal, Despite Plan to Eliminate Air Travel

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The head of a major flight attendant union praised Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal last week, saying the radical vision poses no threat to the future of air travel.

“[F]light attendants and airline workers have been told by some pundits that the Green New Deal…will ground all air travel. That’s absurd,” wrote Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants.

The Green New Deal calls for “overhauling the transportation systems in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.” This, according to Ocasio-Cortez’s office, would be accomplished in part by “build[ing] out highspeed …

HYPOCRISY WATCH: Emma Thompson Flies A Long Way To Save The Environment

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It’s enough that actress Emma Thompson joined environmental extremists last week who sought to shut down London’s Heathrow Airport to disrupt holiday travel plans at one of the world’s busiest airports.

It’s quite another that she felt entitled to flex her big carbon footprint to fly to London from Los Angeles to protest … checking our notes … people flying too much. She flew in for the protest even though event organizers believe airplanes should “only be used for emergencies.”

Thompson is the same person who wrote last year, “To avoid catastrophic climate change that will affect every one …