Al Gore is teaming up with the organizers of Live 8 and a slew of music biggest stars for a twenty-four hour concert across seven continents (yes, including Antarctica) on July 7th (7/7/07) to raise awareness of environmental issues. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, John Mayer, Akon, A.F.I., Fall Out Boy, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill are among the participating artists being announced at a press conference in Los Angeles today. Though not all of the locations have been confirmed, organizer Kevin Wall, who spearheaded the Live 8 concerts in 2005, has a possible plan: “We’ll start in Shanghai, and go to Sydney and Rio De Janeiro and Washington D.C. and London and Johannesburg and finish the show in Kyoto at the old Buddhist temple where we would do an acoustic show and ask the world to take a breath.” The concerts, which will include short films and presentations designed to educate the world on the climate crisis and advocate for specific changes, will be broadcast in over 120 countries — on NBC and seven cable networks in the U.S. — and webcast on MSN (revenues from ticket sales will go towards various environmental groups). “Our success, I hope, is to act like a tipping point for a lot of movements that are already happening,” says Wall, who approached Gore with the idea after seeing his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “I told Al, ‘Two million people have seen this movie — two billion people will watch this event. We’ll give you the microphone. Let’s make a change here.’”
Breaking News: Al Gore Announces “Live Earth” Mega-Concert
2/15/07, 12:30 pm EST
Comments
hemant | 7/5/2007, 6:14 am EST
i wonder gore, if some naked chicks dancing on the floor and some 2 billion leering at them can save the world.
all the best with your rip off of live aid!
ass kisser | 6/3/2007, 11:37 pm EST
your such an ass for messing with Gore
Luis | 5/21/2007, 11:36 am EST
your mom is fat
Joe | 5/15/2007, 8:06 pm EST
what an ass
Definitely... | 4/28/2007, 7:24 pm EST
Yes. Al Gore MUST run. Just give it a few months… he probably will, but it won’t be announced until after December 10th.
Brian | 3/28/2007, 4:58 pm EST
Paul Wolfowitz is the President of the World Bank….yeah….you know….the PNAC guy who helped orchestraqte the Iraq war…..
Not real “pro planet” is he?
Realize that he was promoted to President of the World Bank after getting America into Iraq?
Realize that all the money raised by Al Gore will be going to the World Bankers?
David Rockefeller (War Profiteer, Oil, Opium Trafficker)….
And Jacob Rothschild who runs Sky News with Rupert Murdocjh….a man whose family made trillions of dollars off of orchestrating and financing genocidal wars in Europe for the last 200 years.
Why is Al Gore raising money for them?
Brian | 3/28/2007, 4:54 pm EST
Why is Al Gore raising money for the World Bank where Paul Wolfowitz is the President?
This concert is a scam.
Hotter The Ezra | 3/1/2007, 11:21 am EST
WAKE UP!
Group: Global warming effects hunting
By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press Writer Wed Feb 28, 5:15 PM ET
IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory - Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures
All his gear plunged into the water too, leaving him stranded for two days. He now walks — and still hunts — with prosthetic feet, and believes God kept him alive to warn the world about global warming.
“Today I am here because the creator allowed it,” says Nattaq, 61, a city counselor for Iqaluit, a one-time U.S. Air Force base that is today Canada’s northernmost city with 7,000 residents.
Nattaq and other Inuit, the Arctic people of the United States, Canada, Russia, and Greenland — in Alaska where they’re known as Eskimos — have been warning the world for more than a decade about the shifting winds and thinning ice. Hunting patterns thousands of years old are in jeopardy.
“Our way of life is at stake,” says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, just nominated with former U.S. Vice President
Al Gore for a Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change.
Watt-Cloutier will argue before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington on Thursday that the United States, as the world’s largest emitter of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, is violating her people’s rights.
While for many global warming is a distant threat, for the Inuit its impact is a reality now. “It’s about real people who live on top of the world,” she said this week before leaving for the hearing.
The commission, part of the Organization of American States, has no authority over the U.S. government. But Watt-Cloutier says she’s looking for a moral and political victory, to help make climate change a bigger issue in future elections.
Nattaq is one of 63 Inuit from Canada and Alaska on the OAS petition she is representing, filed on behalf of the world’s 155,000 Inuit.
Another is Pitseolak Alainga, who says peculiar crosswinds overturned his boat in 1994. The freak storm claimed his father and seven uncles and cousins, who were together in a hunt for walrus.
An anchor sits as a memorial in Iqaluit’s stark cemetery. The field of simple white wooden crosses sits next to the frozen Frobisher Bay, a massive inlet of the Labrador Sea on the southeastern corner of Baffin Island about 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Alainga pointed across the cemetery from the warmth of his pickup truck. He recalled how the lessons his father taught him, handed down through generations of Inuit hunters, helped to keep him alive for three nights and four days without food or water.
“My father used to teach me how to take a layer of snow off frozen salt water and eat only the fresh snow,” said Alainga, a 40-year-old father of three boys. “We take the first top half of the snow and we make a ball out of it and put it into our mouths and let it melt. He told us not to chew the snow, he told us to swallow it when it was warm.”
The Arctic is the region of the globe hardest hit by rising temperatures. In a major report Feb. 2, a U.N.-sponsored network of scientists said some projections show the Arctic’s late-summer sea ice will disappear almost entirely in the second half of this century, unless emissions are dramatically reduced by such developed nations as the United States, which is responsible for one-fourth of world’s greenhouse gases.
The shrinking ice cap already is forcing the polar bear, seal and walrus to migrate farther north in search of solid ice. Inuit hunters report painful scenes of stranded walrus and seal pups left to die on floating ice because their mothers are too heavy to share the rafts.
Scientists last December discovered the 41-square-mile Ayles Ice Shelf had broken free in just a matter of hours from the coast of Ellesmere Island, 500 miles from the North Pole. The ice shelf was one of six major shelves remaining in Canada’s Arctic, some packed with ancient ice more than 3,000 years old.
The Canadian weather service said last winter was the warmest on record there since they began keeping records in 1948.
Watt-Cloutier hopes to put a human face on the statistics.
“There’s no heartbeat to any of these global negotiations,” said Watt-Cloutier, 53, past chair of the highly respected Inuit Circumpolar Conference. “We bring that urgency, that immediacy, because we tell the story of the Inuk hunter who falls through the depleting ice, how it’s connected to the industries, connected to the disposable world.”
Watt-Cloutier, who traveled only by dog sled when she was a child, fears her 9-year-old grandson could be from the last Inuit generation to know how to read the stars, the wind and the clouds, to hunt the food that keeps them healthy, and the furs and skins that help them survive the elements.
“Within my grandson’s lifetime, he will lose what I had,” she said. “The wisdom and answers from our hunting culture may leave us, because the ice is melting so fast.”
Christina | 2/28/2007, 11:10 pm EST
everyone who decided it was necessary to make fun of afi is pretty ridiculous.
AFI is a respectable band that has been working their asses off for 15 years to have the success they have today.
as a long time fan and a member of the despair faction, i am very impressed that they have decided to participate in a positive event such as this one.
to those of you who are IGNORANT, and believe that global warming is something that people ‘made up’, wake up and GET A FUCKING CLUE.
2012.are you ready?
jonny20 | 2/23/2007, 11:05 pm EST
jonny20
Lu~Lu | 2/23/2007, 6:11 pm EST
wow, that’s seems pretty cool and i wish i could be able to go see AFI (only the best band in the world,universe,galaxy,and i don’t know what comes after that….) well yeah i wish they could have way more concerts like this.
Nikki | 2/21/2007, 12:10 am EST
Why is everyone calling AFI “ASSHATS” O_O Come on, people. Be a little more creative at least with those insults!
I’m psyched about this. Can’t wait to watch. AFI = Amazing! ^_^ And I don’t care what you have to say about it, they are the sweetest most down to earth folks. Lovely cause for lovely people.
And no one should be complaining about this -_- There are bigger problems .-. Aren’t there?
Hotter then HELL | 2/17/2007, 12:20 pm EST
I applaud the enlightened individuals here, and I sadly laugh at the others who were unfortunately born on some idiot-acres in this country.
Inspite of these slow to know’s…
people like Al Gore struggles on,
to attempt saving some of this planets former glories.
Everytime there’s still a new or old knuckle-head, to join the still way too long list of easily duped humans,by the ones in powerful positions..or
G.W. (Global Warming)Bush-whacked p-brains,it makes for an even harder battle.
If this was `Field and (drying-up)Stream”…or another Republican easy target segment of our population for their votes,
and NOT Rolling Stone magazine…I would feel so disheartened!
Do you truly want to live on a planet void of all it’s former wonders???
Watching Grandma succumb to this or next summer’s extreme heat-waves?
NO to little snow days…only rare sightings of birds,butterflies,bees..the occassionally trees?
WAKE UP..as Al’z sez people,and lets give it a GREAT FIGHT,inspite of the odds!
As Charlton Heston screamed SOYLENT GREEN is P-Brains!
RUN AL..RUN in 2008!
stephan is god | 2/16/2007, 7:48 pm EST
god
stefan | 2/16/2007, 6:09 pm EST
Live Aid, Live 8 and now Live Earth…….
Will it prevent Global Warming from getting worse?
Probably not but I don’t think that it will do any harm neither.
It will certainly bring the issue to the attention of millions of people who may then start putting pressure on the politicians to do something about it.
Anyway, I didn’t manage to catch Live Aid or even Live 8 but I am damn sure that I’m not going to miss this event!
As for Global Warming, anybody who thinks that Global Warming isn’t happening needs to wake up.
I know the planet has been much warmer in the past and obviously much colder but the temprature changes took place over the course of many thousands of years.
The problem is that there has been a massive temprature change since the Industrial Revoloution which is affecting natures natural balance.
JILLY BLUM | 2/16/2007, 4:23 pm EST
Please do not forget your brothers and sisters in CANADA!!!
We want to stand strong and let our voices be heard here too!!!
Blane | 2/16/2007, 12:40 pm EST
What ya gonna wear to the Live Earth concert http://carbonneutral.2truth.co m
AL SEZ: BECOME CARBON NEUTRAL
mimi | 2/16/2007, 11:06 am EST
sweeeet! good for gore! more and more people are coming around and realizing climate change is no joke. live earth is an awesome idea to raise awareness and will show that by working together the world can agree to make changes and end this global crisis. jump on the bandwagon and support this pro-planet event!!!
cmon! | 2/16/2007, 10:27 am EST
i can’t believe there r still such stupid fucks who’d go n say “global warmin” does not exist.. look the 2 posts below mine.. detroit-whatever-the-fuck, u deserve to live in a gutter!
it’s coz of ppl like u this whole planet is bein fucked.. coz u couldn’t care less..
as for the idea of “Live earth”, that would be somethin nice.. not too “useful” except for the money, but at least even more ppl woill get the message..
killerqueen | 2/16/2007, 9:44 am EST
global warming is just a theory, kinda like gravity!
Mark | 2/16/2007, 4:09 am EST
Wow Rolling Stone, you’ve finally succeeded in finding an article that’s given birth to a reasonably intelligent and interesting ‘Comment’ section…Keep the good work up!!!
no more | 2/16/2007, 1:37 am EST
thats a mega concert? all those artists listed suck, getting tired of all these mass hysteria moneymakeing schemes, global warming isnt nearly as bad as everybody is making it out to be, plus theres no real evidence its manmade, the earth used to be a lot warmer
Detroit Rock City | 2/16/2007, 1:24 am EST
Bla Bla Bla…Who cares!
Id rather be at Bonnaroo!Cross my fingers
There is no such thing as global warming, just stupid people
Long Live Rock n Roll
Detroit Rock City | 2/16/2007, 1:21 am EST
BLA BLA BLA….Who Cares!
Id rather be at Bonnaroo.Cross my Fingers.
There is no global warming, just stupid people
Long Live Rock n Roll.
Rod | 2/16/2007, 12:18 am EST
So -
The Democrats promise to raise your taxes, set prisoners free and legalize abortion on demand. But they’ll also save you from this completely imagined, bullsh*t problem of global warming, which doesn’t exist except in Al Gore’s little fantasy-land. Oh, yes! St. Al Gore will save us! Just like his wife Tipper Gore saved us from naughty rock lyrics!
When will anyone ever realize the Democrat party is just a bunch of bullsh*t artists who have nothing of value to add to this county, so just give everyone a bunch of fairy tale nightmares to believe in?
But, really, I take all my political advice from the Dixie Chicks, and Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn, and Al Gore, and all the other wankers who tell me how to live my life.
Because I’m a Democrat! And I read Rolling Stone, because I consider Kieth Richards the most important rock star on the planet!
Rudy | 2/16/2007, 12:12 am EST
Are you fucking kidding me? Rising tempratures, increasing rates of skin cancer, glaciers melting,etc.
How could you ignorant idiots still not accept it? Read a book,people. Ask the Questions and know the facts before condemning it.
Converted | 2/15/2007, 11:59 pm EST
I’m just an ordinary, non-scientific joe who’s done some research. I see this debate as two distinct camps:
1) Scientists who have no ideological or political interests in either supporting or refuting global warming. Their only allegiance is to science. These are the ones who are telling us in overwhelming numbers that global warming is caused by humans and a major threat to life on Earth.
2) “Scientists” who went through the motions of studying and graduating so they can serve a personal, political or religious agenda, regardless of the facts. These kind of “scientists” are usually the ones trotted out in the media. This camp can include atheists working for the oil lobby, skeptics like Chris Hitchens who make a living being contrarian, and fundie Christians working for the Bush administration. These are the ones who want us to keep the debate alive when the debate is case-closed.
Some radio talk show hosts and newspaper columnists (just find one in your local media, they’re everywhere) want this to be a debate about whether global warming is man-made (thus requiring drastic changes to our lifestyles) or natural. This is a preposterous question. Human beings are as natural to the Earth as beavers or penguins. The history of life on Earth is replete with species who have had a major impact on the environment (ocean plant life is a good example.) Even before modern technology, ancient cultures have been causing the extinction of species for thousands of years (woolly mammoth.) The big difference is that now extinction is being sped up at a rate that is catastrophic.
The issue is not whether it’s man-made or natural. That’s just a smoke-screen put up by those who don’t understand the complex interactions of life on Earth (it’s no surprise the majority of them are creationists and Bush supporters.) The human species will be responsible for the extinction of most life on Earth if we don’t change our ways. Both alternatives are “natural” since both involve the actions and choices of humans.
I drive a gas-powered car, use gas for heat, and consume a lot of disposable products. I have a mix of liberal and conservative beliefs like most working-class joes. But I did a little research and found out that the situation is more dire than I expected it to be. If you make it about political allegiance or ideology, the facts get lost. The facts should come from scientists who express no political affiliation in their scientific papers. And for the majority of the time they do, except when the interests of a few oil businesses are threatened. Then conveniently the media is flooded with contrary views expressed by those in my second group.
Yeah, sure, partisan rhetoric is going to convince me Al Gore is lying about the environment. I don’t care for his egotistical posturing in An Inconvenient Truth, but the hard science is indisputable. I can’t argue with numbers, scientific facts, or what I see with my eyes, despite all wishing to the contrary (environmental “skeptics” are very good at doublethink, I’ve discovered.)
Just remember, “skeptics”, that hard science was the backbone of evolution in the beginning, as well as every major revolutionary scientific breakthrough that changed humanity’s view of the world. But of course, they all had their doubters, skeptics and persecutors. The fact of global warming has an equally tough road to hoe, but since it is backed-up by hard science (and remember that there are still millions of creationists who doubt the fact of evolution with what they believe is “science”) it will win out in the end.
john | 2/15/2007, 11:52 pm EST
there is zero evidence of global warming….ZERO….for every scientist you give me that says it exists I will give you one that says it doesnt…..
Ragamuffin Gunner | 2/15/2007, 9:47 pm EST
Geoff, learn to spell “peace” in the right context
lee | 2/15/2007, 8:10 pm EST
alas! the whether or not afi are asshats debate is as unsolvable as the global warming debate.
except afi aren’t asshats and global warming does exist.
case closed!
ok, not closed. but i have the attention span of a 4 year old so it’s likely the last i’ll speak of it.
now im going to go listen to some black sails in the sunset and ponder whether or not sailing contributes somehow to destroying the world. or maybe music does it. or annoying politicians. or asshats. asshat.
geoff | 2/15/2007, 8:07 pm EST
Al Gore just need to go into hiding i hate gore. It turns out there are reports he paid off “scientist” for his movie which he is now up for the noble piece prize for. Dont get me wrong i am all for these Live 8 deals but i would be much more into them if mot for gore.
jay | 2/15/2007, 7:44 pm EST
I completely agree with global warming. It’s been happening for a long time now… but it taking this long to get the message across is crazy. Although Mr. Gore grates my nerves at times, I give him props for standing his ground on this matter.
I also heard on the news that these concerts would be held on 6 different continents and I shit you not, Antarctica was one of them. I’m guessin’ they’ll get a low turn out. But it is possible the Chili Peppers could heat it up, but that would defy the whole purpose of stopping global warming.
Gore | 2/15/2007, 6:43 pm EST
Run Al Run. He probably needs to focus a little more on his 08 campaign. Gore/Clinton 08
Space Pen | 2/15/2007, 5:01 pm EST
gore better call the b-man aka bono
Jim | 2/15/2007, 5:00 pm EST
Actually, Vino…Al Sr. was a teacher and a lawyer before becoming a congressman and a Senator. He was not an oil baron. Check your facts before you spout off like a moron.
a good idea | 2/15/2007, 4:27 pm EST
al gore should shave his head and wear a toupe or wig
Andy | 2/15/2007, 4:15 pm EST
It’s a good thing they scheduled the concerts in the summer. That way, they won’t have to worry about the FREAKING BLIZZARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George W. Bush | 2/15/2007, 4:12 pm EST
“We know the surface temperature of the earth is warming…the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.”
Only a self-deluded idiot would arrive at this conclusion after the President of fossil fuels, George W.
Check out the whitehouse’s website, or energy.gov. They’re in full “we’ve been saying this all along” mode.
This is your cue to fall in line, warming deniers. Or get an advanced degree in earth sciences to back up your bullshit.
Loyalist of the Savage Nation | 2/15/2007, 4:05 pm EST
Al Gore is currently suffering from a mental disorder known as liberalism. Symptoms include believing that EVERYTHING is man’s fault, and at times, exclusively America’s fault. He is also a scam artist is mingling with the music and Hollywood industries to “raise” money and or awareness for his religion of Global Warming, or also known as the Atheist’s Religion. It’s rather funny how his wife, Tipper “the whore” Gore dedicated her adult life in bringing down such named industries. Now Big Gay Al is hanging out because he is “hip”? Strange, but it all adds up to liberalism is a mental disorder. Have a nice day liberal scumbags!
Anonymous | 2/15/2007, 3:55 pm EST
So many people here are annoying me. You are all so ignorant and content with your own igsignificant lives that you chose to think something as bad as climate change isn’t occurring-or lay the blame on more environemntal factors.
Wake up-even though there has been a warming of the climate by natural changes in the atmosphere it is by and large due to human interaction. In a society where technology, moving about quickly and being able to do whatever we want whenever we want is the most important thing, people have spent years ignoring the fact that something is happening. This has been going on for over a century now-and the affects are obvious. Increased frequency of natural disasters, changing of northern hemisphere weather patterns and the much publicised ice caps melting. This may not do much but at least its getting people more aware-much more than any government is attempting. USA STILL wont even join the kyoto agreement, despite the fact its one of the biggest polluters in the world.
And its not just clmate change we need to consider. Humans are slowing wearing down the place we live, not just polluting the atmosphere but the soil, our crops and other peoples lives are all being affected by richer countries own selfish goals. People need to wake up and begin helping. And dont just think the blame lays on major organisation-help begins at home.
People need to wake up in the world and start saving it for the people of the future.
MMW | 2/15/2007, 3:52 pm EST
why wont al gore go away? he is a loser, and he is just getting in the news by pawning ideas off as his own. Poor democrats need to let him go, embrace someone else. the dude is a LOSER.
Vino | 2/15/2007, 3:33 pm EST
Al Gore, son of an oil-baron… only his family’s money comes from south American oil and not middle eastern oil… a la Bush.
Republican… democrat? they play for the same team (big biz), and we’re all getting screwed.
If they’ve paid enough money to where you’re listening to them on TV… you might as well tune out whatever it is they’re saying, because it is NOT in their interest to help you.
Besides, if global warming continues the Canadian Coastline will be a swell place to live by 2050. Blame Canada!
ES | 2/15/2007, 3:28 pm EST
An answer to your question, CB:
In effect the ice age hasn’t ended yet. We are still in an icehouse climate, albeit a mild one. Glacial retreat ~10,000 BP was most likely brought about by a decrease in in a relatively warm phase of Milankovich cycles as the Earth has precessed so that the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun in the winter, giving us mild winters in comparison to what it was like 10,000 years ago. But precession will put us back at that same situation (northern hemisphere far from the sun — colder winters) in another few thousand years.
The recent anthropogenic CO[2] increases are likely to be only a mild forcer in comparison to solar flux (brought about by Earth-Sun cycles) and weathering rates. So it is possible that we will go back into an ice age within a few thousand years.
I hate Mike Anthony | 2/15/2007, 3:28 pm EST
Willie Nelson ended the Ice Age
CB | 2/15/2007, 3:21 pm EST
All I have to say is….
MAN_BEAR_PIG.
I believe that there is global warming…just not man made. But can anyone answer this…how did the ice age end?
Al Gore | 2/15/2007, 3:20 pm EST
lock box
kidinthebay | 2/15/2007, 3:19 pm EST
awesome
DanZbassman | 2/15/2007, 2:54 pm EST
Personally I think Global Warming or Climate Change as some like to call it is probably happening, and has been happening for a long time.
Does human activity contribute? Probably.
What do we do about it? In the long run I don’t think we need worry about it. We’re going to run out of crude oil long before GW really becomes problematic. The societal breakdown that will follow the decline of oil availbility will probably solve whatever man made contribution to GW exists.
Besides, man made polution isn’t destroying the Earth. At worse we’ll destroy the Earth’s ability to sustain OUR life form, along with a bunch of other life forms. Eventually the Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas and go on her merry way.
James | 2/15/2007, 2:53 pm EST
Al Gore is a father of the internet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk /2000/10/02/net_builders_kahn_ cerf_recognise/
This allows people to telecommute and save the environment from commuters’ emissions.
And allows parents to both work and be home for the kids.
Also, free porn and RollingStone.com.
‘Nuff said.
He should get the nobel prize just for that.
JuneVox | 2/15/2007, 2:43 pm EST
Yay! I hope this is a sign that Tipper has finally grown up and realizes that it’s parents, not rock ‘n roll, that is responsible for young children!
I love Al! I hope he runs for president and takes his rightful place after two wins! Tipper’s past issues with the rock was his only drawback, imho.
Og | 2/15/2007, 2:42 pm EST
When everyone is ready to start riding bikes to work, let me know. I’ll join you. Until then, stop complaining about “Global Warming” and come to grips that as the UN has stated, it will continue to happen, and there’s little we can do about it.
All this concert push does is make a bunch of people feel good about being involved in a “cause” and all the while lines some agency’s pockets for the next year or two.
Zeb | 2/15/2007, 2:41 pm EST
This concert sounds fucking awful.
Jack | 2/15/2007, 2:37 pm EST
hey B…there’s still time for you to backpedal and say you knew global warming was man-made all along…even President Bush is doing it!
The White House released this on Feb 7:
Following last Friday’s release of a new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, a number of media reports perpetuated inaccuracies that the President’s concern about
climate change is new. In fact, climate change has been a top priority since the President’s first
year in office.
Beginning in June 2001, President Bush has consistently acknowledged climate change is
occurring and humans are contributing to the problem. Consider the following statements by the
President:
* “First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming…There is a natural
greenhouse effect that contributes to warming…And the National Academy of Sciences
indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.” – June 11, 2001
* “My Administration is committed to cutting our Nation’s greenhouse gas intensity…by
18 percent over the next 10 years. This will set America on a path to slow the growth of
our greenhouse gas emissions and, as science justifies, stop and then reverse the growth
of emissions.” – February 14, 2002
* “America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our
lives less dependent on oil….they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global
climate change.” – January 23, 2007
Kevin A | 2/15/2007, 2:37 pm EST
Didn’t Al Gore’s wife head the censoring of music committe.
dan | 2/15/2007, 2:35 pm EST
al gore is smart dude, and if you say global warming doesn’t exist you’re either a liar or a fool
DanZbassman | 2/15/2007, 2:34 pm EST
Christopher C. Horner is an attorney, not a scientist. He is associated with a “think tank” that gets a large chunk of its funding from Exxon. Part of his arguement against global warming is that he sees it as a ploy by “globalists” to increase government control over pollution which Horner believes should be controlled through “property rights” initiatives.
He may be right, that certain big government types will use global warming as an excuse to expand areas of governmental control. BUT that doesn’t mean the SCIENCE behind global warming is wrong.
I put him in the same group as people who still think Evolution and Creationism are equally valid scientific theories.
The One And Only ME! | 2/15/2007, 2:33 pm EST
Well…This is certainly interesting…I’ve never really liked Gore, but with this going to his credit, I’m certainly starting to like him!
But I wonder, what kind of people are going to watch a concert on Antarctica? That’s crazy. More publicity though, I suppose.
One more thing…B, you’re incredibly stupid.
B | 2/15/2007, 2:32 pm EST
Notice in my post I said “Global Warming” a quotational phrase, meaning Global Warming in the popular sense. 90% of scientists do agree that the earth may be warming as a whole, however, much fewer actually believe that we, as inhabitants have anything to do with it.
Ryan | 2/15/2007, 2:32 pm EST
Actually, B- you couldn’t be more wrong. Instead of reading these books by fringe “Scientists,” try listening to the other 95% of actual, accredited scientists.
As for the UN report:
Global warming caused by human activity is real and will be with us for hundreds of years.
That according to a landmark report released in Paris Friday by scientists from more than a hundred countries.
The dire report says man-made emissions of greenhouse gases can be blamed for the problems of rising sea-levels, melting ice caps, fewer cold days, hotter nights, heat waves, floods and heavy rains, devastating droughts and an increase in the strength of hurricanes and tropical storms.
And if you think it is bad now, the report warns that the harmful effects during the 21st century “would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th century.”
A senior United States government scientist, Susan Solomon, says global concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased markedly.
“The increases in carbon dioxide are primarily due to fossil fuel use and land use, while those of methane and nitrous oxide are due to agriculture.”
The long-awaited report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change only addresses how and why the planet is warming. Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.
(from www.un.org)
Og | 2/15/2007, 2:28 pm EST
I find it interesting that despite the UN’s recent panel
report of 113 scientists saying that global warming is inevitable no matter what humans do (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249659,00.html) that this kind of stupidity continues.
I want to know what the combined impact of thousands of people traveling to one of these concerts in their vehicles (not likely to be hybrids) will have upon global climate change?
Gripe all you want…Al Gore isn’t doing anything that can TRULY help the planet. It is all publicity for a washed up politician.
Ryan | 2/15/2007, 2:27 pm EST
Actually, B, I think Mr. Gore actually has opened his pocketbook to this issue. Quite a bit actually. And, uh, when over 90% of all scientists agree that it’s happening, I’m going to go with their story. There aer scientists who still think that the earth is flat, but it doesn’t mean we haven’t shown that the earth is round. Once you get your mind out of the stone age, give us a call.
B | 2/15/2007, 2:25 pm EST
So apparently no one on here took the time to research the findings of the UN’s study on Global Warming. Statemts like “…global warming may be occuring, however humans are in no way to blame for it”, kind of point the figure in an opposite direction from where most of the “Global Warming” pundits are pointing.
NYC Nate | 2/15/2007, 2:14 pm EST
Yeah, “B”. So thousands of square miles of the arctic aren’t actully melting into the sea?!? Or, is it just a coincidence of sorts? Why don’t you keep us posted, expert? My guess is that you don’t live on the coast, either.
B | 2/15/2007, 2:09 pm EST
Cory,
Check out various scientifically accredited books such as my personal favorite “The Policially Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Envirnmentalism” by Christopher C. Horner.
Deez Nuttzz | 2/15/2007, 2:08 pm EST
Lee, while global warming may still provoke some scientific questioning and debate, it IS now widely accepted in the scientific community that AFI boy is indeed a tremendous asshat.
BOB | 2/15/2007, 1:59 pm EST
I like the globe being a little warmer. Winter sucks almost as much ass as all you tree hugging hippies.
lee | 2/15/2007, 1:57 pm EST
haha, asshat. davey’t not an asshat, just maybe he isn’t the most masculine person around… um… yeah… not an understatement at all.
i may have to go to one of these (sure to be) preachy, annoying shows to see those afi asshats.
Cory | 2/15/2007, 1:56 pm EST
B, you are ridiculous. And where have you seen this evidence that Global Warming DOESN’T exist?
Anonymous | 2/15/2007, 1:54 pm EST
It’s about time someone actually does something instead of just sitting around “having all these great ideas” screw you people who don’t believe it’s real. I hope your burn here since god and hell don’t exist. what do you say to that bush.
Warhand................. | 2/15/2007, 1:50 pm EST
Who is the fuckin weirdo in the picture with Gore, he looks like he’s just about to suck a big fat dick…………..AFI? If so doesn’t suprise me, they do suck, EXTREMELY LARGE DONKEY BALLS.
B | 2/15/2007, 1:49 pm EST
I find this ridiculous. Not only has it been scientifically proven over and over again that “Global Warming” doesn’t exist, these types of global hand-holding-initiative concert events never make a difference in the long run. If Al Gore is so worried about Global Warming, he should open his own pocketbook and invest in prevention instead of asking concert goers to open theirs.
Leon | 2/15/2007, 1:47 pm EST
I love lamp!
Deez Nuttzz | 2/15/2007, 1:43 pm EST
P.S.
It took me about 10 viewings of that photo to realize that wasn’t a chick over Al’s shoulder, but actually that asshat from AFI. Screw those d-bags.
Deez Nuttzz | 2/15/2007, 1:40 pm EST
This will possibly raise a lot of money, but ultimately have little effect on anything. The biggest problem facing America today is not that we need someone like Al Gore to be President, it is that as a culture, both lefties and conservatives, we have made the mistake of expecting our gov’t to provide us with answers instead of the people fixing things for themselves.
Mullet Man | 2/15/2007, 1:36 pm EST
Not impressed with the roster so far. If this is supposed to eclipse Live 8, they are gonna need someone bigger than the Red Hot Chili Peppers (cmon, do they really have the same energy they once had?). Better get another Pink-Floyd-with-Waters type if you wanna come close to Live 8, let alone eclipse it. Anyone got any ideas? Led Zeppelin reunion with Ringo Starr on drums? Genesis with Peter Gabriel again? The Police? Bob Dylan with Willie Nelson and the Dead? AFI and Fallout Boy ain’t gonna cut it, people.
SoulMonkey | 2/15/2007, 1:35 pm EST
Snore
Bigwreck | 2/15/2007, 1:15 pm EST
I am from Canada - and I REALLY hope AL Gore runs for President. The U.S. and the rest of the world need him to be President.
Lobsters | 2/15/2007, 1:10 pm EST
Remember The Good Old Days when Rock And Roll was about DESTROYING the World?
You kids should read more Burroughs.
bp | 2/15/2007, 1:03 pm EST
Where is Tipper in all this? Some of the artists slated to perform have “questionable values” at best. Saving the earth starts with protecting our children from music.
lik roper | 2/15/2007, 1:02 pm EST
i wish he would do us all a favor and get in the race for president -
AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT 2008!
Richard | 2/15/2007, 12:43 pm EST
Good luck staging that one Al.
Drop your backstage pass, and step back into the race.
If the Demos are actually gonna win in ‘08, they need you to run.
Johnny b | 2/15/2007, 12:42 pm EST
Absolutly incredible. Finally a positive move!

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