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Thursday, February 15, 2007


Al Gore To Hold Global Warming Rock Concerts

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LOS ANGELES - 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.”

The concerts will be held on 7 continents.  Yes 7, meaning that one concert will apparently be held in Antartica.

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.”

The all-star lineup includes:

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.

One wonders how much of the “awareness” and money raised to counteract global warming will be offset by the fumes from all the private jets and chauffeured limos/SUVs.  Because you know these celebrity entertainers, and the VIP’s who attend the concerts, aren’t about to fly coach and ride in buses like the rest of us plebes.

Also, I wonder which lucky entertainer gets the concert in Antartica.  That one will be wanting a private jet for sure.

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Can you imagine the pollution caused by these concerts?  How much carbon is going to be released from people driving to those concerts?


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The Whistler on February 15, 2007 at 05:27 pm

The Whister: Any bets he’ll fly to and from on a private, jet fuel guzzling private jet?


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Neiman on February 15, 2007 at 06:57 pm

I would guess so.  But if he gets some grief he may swallow his pride and ride with the serfs while the cameras are on him.


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The Whistler on February 15, 2007 at 07:37 pm

I can’t wait for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi, 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, all singing “Kum-ba-yah” together.

Wonder how much AlGore will be charging to download the video?


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Bat One on February 15, 2007 at 08:14 pm
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I’m sure he’ll be distributing it for free on servers that run only on solar power.


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Rob on February 15, 2007 at 08:33 pm

8 years, 346 days and change until Al Gore’s doomsday.  When we’re all still alive when the clock expires, will the liberals finally shut up?


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Paulie B on February 15, 2007 at 10:39 pm

When we’re all still alive … will the liberals finally shut up?

They’ll just change the problem to something else or claim victory in delaying it.  That’s the nice thing about claiming that that sky is falling … nobody can prove you wrong.

electnixon on February 16, 2007 at 06:09 am

Duran Duran? And he’s trying to attract support? I would pay him just to keep Duran Duran the hell out of my hometown.


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Al Gore To Hold Global Warming Rock Concerts

First, you got my hopes up, because shoveling the snow off my driveway, I would hold concerts for “Global Warming”.
But, in a spirit of bi-partisanship, I will suggest a marketing slogan for Mr. Gore and his concerts:

Global Warming Rocks!


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Proof on February 16, 2007 at 06:19 am

Seems to me, given the nature of the event and the nature of sponsoring promoter, that the most appropriate headliner would be Milli Vanilli.


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Bat One on February 16, 2007 at 06:43 am

I heard that venues such as Vale Colorado are trying to schedule these concerts in November.

Algore’s global warming events are guarenteed to bring cold and snow and that’ll give the ski slopes a great start.


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The Whistler on February 16, 2007 at 06:45 am

Doesn’t anyone care about the whales anymore? Or did we save them already?

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You gotta love those environmentalists—there is no place on this globe that they will not fly to, drive to, or sail to in order to protest the drilling of an oil well, or the felling of a tree.  Don’t you just luv em?

halatbis on February 16, 2007 at 08:29 am

If the liberals were sincere in what they are saying they’d all adopt a zero carbon lifestyle.

If they all did that, according to them, the problem would be solved.

Alas they just can’t stand the idea of making the sacrifices themselves.


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The concerts will be held on 7 continents.

Anyone want to bet that when that announcement was made, some dim bulb enviro-weenie didn’t realize one of the continents was nearly uninhabited?


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I wonder if Tipper is going to put a parental advisory sticker on the concert.  Several of the groups(snoop dog for one) was all up in her hackles when she was trying to stop all of that foul language and such. 

If the libs would just shut up global yawning would be over by now.

John on February 27, 2007 at 04:11 pm

What about the whales? Sniffle, sniffle…


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Sparkie Arbuckle on February 27, 2007 at 04:26 pm
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