Hollywood hypocrite Leonardo DiCaprio ignored his own dire warnings about climate change and hopped on a private jet from the Cannes Film Festival to fly all the way to New York City for an environmental award. Hours later he was back in France to attend glitzy parties and give another speech.

DiCaprio's 8,000 mile round-trip excursion certainly added to his already enormous carbon footprint. It was just earlier this year when he stood on the Oscar stage, trophy in hand and condemned "big polluters," telling the world that "climate change… is the most urgent threat facing our entire species." He urged everyone to "work collectively" and "stop procrastinating." Of course, you can't expect a guy who has such a busy and extremely important schedule to follow his own suggestions.

According to the New York Post, DiCaprio was honored by his "green" buddy-in-arms Robert De Niro and the Riverkeeper Fishermen clean-water advocacy group. DiCaprio's foundation has also donated $15 million to environmental causes around the world. 

The report notes that sources close to the actor insist he just "hitched a ride" with someone already traveling to and from Cannes and that this wasn't his own chartered flight, yet, he did board the jet fuel-guzzling flight without hesitation.

Book-ending DiCaprio's trek were two glitzy parties: one at a club in France where he cavorted with a model or two, who probably also arrived by luxury transportation. Then there was the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala, where DiCaprio spoke and auctioned off a stay in one his eco-unfriendly mansions in Palm Springs, California for $500,000.