Posted on 02/15/2007 11:30:04 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Gore announces 'global warming' concerts
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago
Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.
The 24-hour event on July 7 is part of a campaign, Save Our Selves — The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis, that promoters hope will trigger a broad movement to address what the former vice president calls a global climate crisis.
"In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people," the environmental activist, filmmaker and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee said in a statement. "The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement."
Gore is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008 despite his repeated statements that he's not running. Recently, some former aides met in Boston to discuss a campaign to draft the former vice president.
The concerts on seven continents will bring newfound publicity to Gore, who already is enjoying celebrity status with his Oscar-nominated documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore said he was thrilled that the film, on the perils of global warming, was nominated for best documentary and for best song, the latter nod coming for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up."
The Academy Awards are Feb. 25.
More than 100 performers are scheduled to appear at the July concerts, including Etheridge, the Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Duran Duran, Korn, Pharrell, the Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
Promoters said the Live Earth concerts will take place in Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; London and cities to be announced in Japan, Brazil and the
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I heard The Police are headlining this year...that could be interesting.
Acoustic? No. They'll have a bunch of 10,000 watt amps driving 'way overdriven speakers.
None of the attendees will be able to hear ever again so it'll be a big boon for the hearing aid vendors.
If it was 72.5 F in all places all the time they'd be calling it Seasonal Fluctuations Deficit, and it would, of course, be a man-made phenonemon that required crushing regulations and heavy taxation.
Was so disappointed that these concerts were not taking place during the last few days.
Great. I'll call the concert series "Ode to Faggotry".
Using the alarmists' own bogus calculations, I'd like to see how much are these clowns are contributing to global warming when they're touring the world on chartered jet flights. No hypocrisy here, right, Al?
Does the 'Save Our Selves' stand for saving 'our selves' from our own hypocrisy.
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