Al Gore set to rock Antarctica for global warming
posted at 8:29 pm on February 15, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I’ve always dreamed I’d get to write that headline someday.
And now, my dream’s come true.
Al Gore, the former vice president and now hit documentary maker, on Thursday added rock promoter to his résumé, announcing plans for a 24-hour concert series on all seven continents to highlight, you guessed it, the dangers of global warming.
With a powerhouse lineup of acts from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi, what’s being called “Live Earth” aims to gather more than 100 of the world’s top musicians on July 7 — and attract 2 billion viewers, most of them via television, radio and the Web…
The concerts will take place in Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai, China; London, England; Kyoto, Japan; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a U.S. city that has yet to be determined, Wall said. Gore added that the campaign even plans to stage the first-ever rock concert on Antarctica.
Imagine the Gorebot there on the glacier, a windswept Jon Bon Jovi shivering just out of frame, introducing an acoustic set of BJ’s greatest hits with new lyrics about greenhouse gas emissions. “If we don’t act soon to limit our carbon footprints, our entire planet will be … livin’ on a prayer.”
Hat tip to KP’s guestblogger, who’s showing off his climate-pun skills in an apparent attempt to land himself a spot on the crack “Half-Hour Comedy Hour” writing team.
Exit question: with Dems already pushing Gore to run and the concert set to blow his profile sky high, if Hillary looks weak come September, will he make his move?
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So…its fitting that Antarctica isn’t warming as quickly as expected? Or actually warming at all?
http://www.lorien1973.com/antarctica-not-warming-as-expected/
Al Gore knows how to bring in da funk, bring in da cold!
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Well I hope he doesn’t plan his Antarctica concert based on his predictions of the weather… Because he’d be dead wrong:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 8:30 PM
i beat ya rightwinged! I saw that story earlier. Did you spot the junk science in that article, though?
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Nope, hadn’t read the entire thing yet, but happened to be reading it as I saw this post
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 8:38 PM
Here it is:
“We’re looking for a small signal that represents the impact of human activity and it is hard to find it at the moment,” he said.
We’re looking? Sounds like they went there with a preconceived opinion and are trying to prove it. Also note how FEW weather stations are there, too. And then the westerlies at the end. That is an awesome article, actually.
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 8:40 PM
Get it, Red HOT Chilli Pepers! Ha ha ha, wooo!
You know who they need to add? Hot Hot Heat. Woohoo!
Alex K on February 15, 2007 at 8:40 PM
Wait, aren’t the poles going to turn into a tropical paradise as a result of global warming? Al should schedule an extended stay and bring along his thong and beach umbrella.
fogw on February 15, 2007 at 8:41 PM
I have a suggestion for Algore - go in the middle of July.
steveegg on February 15, 2007 at 8:41 PM
jesus, this is right out of State of Fear.
Max Power on February 15, 2007 at 8:41 PM
No, I know who they need: Modern English!!
Alex K on February 15, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Antarctica is a logical choice, actually.
That might be the one place on the planet that can’t possibly get any colder as a result of his presence.
Misha I on February 15, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Is this the junk science you’re talking about?
“Scientists” actively seeking a specific outcome to suit political needs, instead of letting the data come in and pumping it as heavily as the unscientific hyped bullsh**. Not going to hijack this back in to the evolution/creation arena. But this is the same problem. You can’t do honest research when you have assumptions that prevent you from reporting honest discoveries because as far as you’re concerned the data must fit a story that is already written.
“Inconsistent”? How about WRONG! And they admit what the outcome they’re looking for? WTF?
Or was the junk science you’re talking about the part where they desperately toss out a handful of theories on why they can’t see the warming… “Uh, maybe the wind screwed it up… maybe the o-zone… not sure. All we know is you shouldn’t doubt global warming!”
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Spawn of Gore
Stephen M on February 15, 2007 at 8:54 PM
July in Antarctica huh?
hahahaha
Somone may want to tell gore to check into these things called “seasons” and also “daylight”
brak on February 15, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Damn, I was preparing my 8:53 comment as I read along, and it looks like we are on the same page again. Great minds… you know the rest.
Yeah, I was going to say… How brave of him to have these concerts in the middle of summer (like the release of his movie)… Though it will be winter in the southern hemisphere… How do you have a concert in Antarctica in the winter? I suspect that one won’t be happening on July 7 with the rest.
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Ummmmm….Antarctica in July…..120 below zero. That would ROCK….Doesn’t the eriudite Algore know that it’s winter in the southern hemisphere in July….the coldest temperature in Antarctica ever recorded was in July…he’s a smart one that Algore…I’ll give him that.
Sweaty Deacon on February 15, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Do gorebots function in 120 degrees below 0?
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 9:08 PM
The world is in full circle this week. Gay penguins on fox news. Al gore visits Antarctica. What’s the natural youtube clip? Here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBNSeFOeFH4
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 9:10 PM
Wow, 24 hours and 7 continents. What kind of a carbon footprint is that going to leave?
vcferlita on February 15, 2007 at 9:10 PM
Oh, BTW, I love that Al Gore photoshop on the front page.
vcferlita on February 15, 2007 at 9:12 PM
Wonder what Tipper thinks of some of these bands. I still remember her PMRC days.
“Suck My Kiss” indeed.
Kevin on February 15, 2007 at 9:13 PM
vcferlita, my thought exactly. Someone needs to figure out the amount of carbon they will be expelling to make this happen. This is proving once again that this will be the biggest media-whoreishness in the history of mankind. I mean manbearpig-kind.
Right Tracker on February 15, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Let me get this straight. He wants to take infidel, American, pop culture to a pristine ecosystem in order to demonstrate how our evil, capitalist, American ways have ruined a pristine ecosystem? Wonder how carbon neutral that logistical nightmare will be? All those limo liberals invading Antarctica with their Evian water and dogs in pocketbooks…I’d love to see some before and after photos of that campsite. Dogshit and empty beer bottles (assuming Teresa Heinz tags along).
Barntender on February 15, 2007 at 9:22 PM
I hope he does enter the race in September.
He is an embarrassment to bipeds. He is such a moron; I am amazed that that tiny brain of his can generate enough energy to move those legs (Lex Luther quote).
Zorro on February 15, 2007 at 9:28 PM
heheh…
Yeah, X rock star lear jet trips times Y catered celeb veggie platters equals how many frickin trees planted?
Geeze, instead of planting trees, why don’t they just grow hemp? Oh yeah I forgot, all that second hand smoke killing all the wittle babies, sorry.
Max Power on February 15, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Well there’s a mental image no one needed. Who wants to see a screamer in a thong. Well…if she’s female, maybe. I digress.
Hey don’t the folks in upstate New York know the earth is heating up?
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 9:31 PM
We’ll have to wait and see, but we know his history…. all the way back to 1997
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/specialReports_pc_carden_detail.htm?reportID={08FAD3B1-9FAF-4037-BF26-573B2826B2C3}
(follow the link for all the juicy details on Gore’s hypocrisy manifesting itself 10 years ago)
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 9:35 PM
July 7? I’ll be one of two places: the beach or the pool. As if I’m going to interrupt an extended 4th of July weekend to listen to a pedantic moron spout pseudoscience.
JammieWearingFool on February 15, 2007 at 9:37 PM
I’m not in upstate New York, though I can see it across the lake, and it’s just like it is here in VT… 4 weeks straight of below freezing temps, mostly in the teens and single digits, with some low 20s, and often windchills below 0, sometimes roughtly -20, and showing no signs of letting up. By the way, we only got about 23 inches from yesterday’s blizzard, some nearby towns had over 30 inches. Either way I can’t see my car because of the drifts. It just looks like a someone built a small mountain in the driveway.
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Here’s our global warming here in VT, and the lights you see in the distance are about 12 miles across the lake in NY state
http://hazecam.net/burlington.html
A regular drought.
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Sure, if it warms up furhter, he might move to Antarctica :)
Dude, you’re a daily riot. HA is precious just for your one-ttwo word/s summations.
Penguins are perturbed and indignant on this one.
I’m on fire about this concert!
Entelechy on February 15, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Even Rock & Roll can’t stop something that isn’t happening.
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 9:59 PM
Looks incredibly cold. Here in Oklahoma - where winter is normally mild - we’ve had more snow, ice, and below freezing temperatures this season than we’ve seen in years! I cringe when I open my gas bills anymore.
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Why not? As Chairman Ann says…any idiot can run for President.
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Well, that was the giveway wasn’t it: “climate models.” Pesky planet Earth, not performing according to climate computer modelling. Virtual science: when you observe only the computer screen.
If Antarctica runs at about -60 F in the winter, how does warming even … let’s pick a number beyond the models, say +30 degrees. Wouldn’t that make Antarctica winters at -30 F ? Isn’t freezing at 32 F? So, how does the ice melt?
naliaka on February 15, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Don’t worry thedecider, they can always explain away extreme winter weather too… they’ll probably just call it “climate change” for now, but global warming is at the source of everything that’s wrong (and Bush of course). Hurricanes? Global warming! No hurricanes? Global warming! Cold winters? Global Warming! Hot Summers? Definitely global warming!
By the way, looks like many of us from the great leaks to the northeast have to suffer even more of the extreme global warming for the next few days.
http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0
And Yay! Current temp here in VT…. 7! Windchill? -19!!! Pass me sunblock. And wow, looks like we might break freezing on the 25th! Will be the first time in over 5 weeks.
RightWinged on February 15, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Maybe the hole in the ozone layer will manuver right over the concert and provide them with a healthy dose of cosmic radiation. Does wonders for electronics … great for humans too.
darwin on February 15, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Ahem… Al … I hate to bring this up, but the earth’s heat cannot dissipate into space, heat requires a conductor and space is a vacuum.
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I’ll ask Al to send warm thoughts your way. By the way, the name is James.
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 10:32 PM
Get ready for the outrage when they turn on their heaters helping to melt the ice. /s
- The Cat
MirCat on February 15, 2007 at 10:33 PM
As I understand it, facts are not allowed in Al’s debate. Keep those to yourself.
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 10:34 PM
Wasn’t there something like this in Revelations?
Should I be concerned?
mesablue on February 15, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Al Gore? In Revelations? Could it be? Is it possible? …. he’s the anti-(fill in ).
darwin on February 15, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Very sorry… I apologize. In that case I won’t even mention that CO2 gas is not evil. That humans and animals inhale oxygen and exhale CO2, and that plants “inhale” CO2 and “exhale” oxygen. Thereby keeping the balance of required gases that sustain life on the planet in abundant supply.
And that without CO2 in the atmosphere all life on the planet would die. And that the more CO2 there is in the air, the faster plants grow…. like food for example.
I won’t even mention that…. sorry again.
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Nope… nothing about Global Warming in Revelations. Maybe you were thinking of “Gore’s Fairytales”.
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 11:02 PM
I hope he does run, and I hope he wins the dems spot. If he does the dems hopes for the white house are toast.
One Angry Christian on February 15, 2007 at 11:05 PM
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Don’t you feel better? Now go hug a tree. It’s the eco-freak equivalent of 10 Hail Mary’s.
thedecider on February 15, 2007 at 11:06 PM
This will be just like when Iron Maiden did that aurora borealis concert in Alaska…except it will suck.
Coyote D. on February 15, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Good, the way the artic air has been following Gore around to mess up his events (and paralyze the state he’s in) let’s ship him off the continent. Frostbite?
naliaka on February 15, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Maxx et al: The idea behind AGW is valid. GHG act as an insulator by blocking infrared radiation from leaving the earth, increasing temperature. While the earth can’t convect away heat into a vacuum, it can radiate IR and reduce heat. Let’s not be stupid here.
AGW is dodgy, given its reliance on models and badly understood systems. The simple metaphor is valid, but its the extrapolations that are questionable.
libertarianuberalles on February 15, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Well the problem with that libertarianuberalles is that IR is only a tiny part of the spectrum, if the planet relied on cooling via IR radiation into space, we would have burned up a long time ago. And if CO2 has the ability to reflect IR, for which there is no evidence, then why doesn’t it reflect it on the way in, how is it that it allows the IR through to the surface of the planet… and only then prevents it from escaping back into space. Is CO2 a one-way valve?
Maxx on February 15, 2007 at 11:34 PM
I think I’ll burn a pile of old tires and cut down some trees tomorrow.
TugboatPhil on February 15, 2007 at 11:46 PM
It all depends on the weather. I guess he figures that come September, hurricane season will be in full-swing, and a couple of Cat. 3s or 4s will have hit the U.S. by then. Who knows, maybe he can even convince the powers-that-be to name one of those big bad canes “Hillary.” That would put him in good shape to push his agenda. After all, wasn’t ‘07 predicted to be one of the hottest years ever? However, things are not off to a good start for the gorebot - the globe is not very warm right now.
Rick on February 16, 2007 at 12:06 AM
That’s what I like to hear. GLOBAL WARMERS, ON!!!
Rick on February 16, 2007 at 12:12 AM
Has anyone {in the Gore camp} ever heard of the Sun?
Do they know that just one major volcanic eruption puts more carbon, radiation, and ash in the air greater, than or equal to, the total human contribution, including every car, fire, war, weapon, industry, or accident?
Do they realize Carbon Dioxide is the fuel that plants use during photosynthesis to create Oxegen?
Do they know that there is a “wobble” in the Earth’s rotation, that sometimes the degree closer to, or farther away, actually has an effect on the Earth’s climate?
Can they explain the multiple ice ages, warmings, ice ages, warmings, ice ages, warmings, that occured before the evil humans created the SUV?
Can they explain that the cooking fires of the worlds 3rd world nations, that are exempt from their precious treaty, are the cause of most of the pollution in the air, as in China and India?
What about the cleanest energy source we have, Nuclear Power Plants, and the countries all over the world are building them, except the United States?
A Solar Power Plant was built in the desert in California, but the “Usual Suspects” are protesting, because they don’t like the power lines?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I believe in packing out your trash, leave the camp site better than you found it for the next visitor, don’t drain your oil in a storm drain, keep your car tuned up, etc… but THIS?????
Here is an exit question for you, I live in Southern CA, we all have to have our cars smogged, insurance, etc, but our neighbors to the South do not {Mexico}. When there is a line on a map, why does that excuse or eliminate their contribution to “Global Warming”? Does pollution know a line on the map?
Why is the American Tax Payer responsible for all of this and “Extreme Measures” will be needed?
PinkyBigglesworth on February 16, 2007 at 12:17 AM
On the hurricane front, we’ve already got the list of this year’s storm names… Sadly H isn’t for Hillary, it’s for Humberto, which I could (if I wanted to be a conspiracy theorist) say is getting us acclimated to the hispanicization of the United States. If I wanted to go further I could point to the names of other storms “Barry” (as we know, this is what Barrack was known as growing up), and “Dean”… well, you know.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/hunames3.htm
As for hurricanes, I’m going to be pissed if it is a busy hurricane season… They predicted one last year and it turned out to be weak and below average. The “scientists” revised their “predictions” twice. (I know, since when are you allowed to “revise” your predictions… I think it’s called being proven wrong). And we didn’t have a single hurricane make landfall, and only two very weak tropical storms dropped a little rain. And that was it. After May 2006 predictions of 13-16 named storms with 8-10 becoming hurricanes looked ridiculous the “revision” came in in August - 12-15 named storms, with 7-9 becoming hurricanes, and 3-4 becoming major hurricanes… In reality we had only 9 storms, 5 of which were hurricanes (again none hitting us).
The media wasn’t hyping “global warming!” over that were they? For anyone that did go out looking for a response they shouted “El Nino!” and ran the other direction.
But here’s my problem. It was a below average season, and a weaker one hadn’t been seen for a decade. Now if we have a busy one and get a nasty hurricane or two, the media and Gore and McCain and other the other douche bags will be screaming “global warming!” and we’ll let them get away with it! I’m preemptively pissed.
RightWinged on February 16, 2007 at 12:53 AM
Pablo…. they named a hurricane after you… Congratulation !
Maxx on February 16, 2007 at 1:02 AM
Hurricane Wendy? Someone needs to be fired.
PinkyBigglesworth, you for got one. Hippies cause more pollution than cars simply from the lack of deodorant.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 16, 2007 at 1:03 AM
Well, it appears I stand corrected - it seems that January was the warmest January “ever.” However, strangely enough, the U.S. (the big global warmers that we are) had “about normal” temperatures in January. The warmer than average temperatures experienced throughout the rest of the world seemed to have been fueled by El Nino.
February, though, is a different story - but, there is a simple explanation for the cold temperatures we are currently experiencing:
Rick on February 16, 2007 at 1:31 AM
Ran across this picture on Billy Sheehan’s site while looking for news about this concert. Billy used to play bass for David Lee Roth, look what he (Billy) wrote under the picture.
forged rite on February 16, 2007 at 1:54 AM
But I heard the MTV crowd doesn’t vote
Kini on February 16, 2007 at 2:22 AM
I’m thinking you mean Revelation 3:9-11…
That’s not global warming. That’s global disintegration. God promised Noah that he would never again destroy the world with a flood. And for anyone thinking that man will cause that with a nuclear holocaust, we’re just not that “bad”. The peak eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 generated more destructive force than 35,000 Hiroshima bombs. One expert estimated that the pollutants ejected into the atmosphere on that day were greater than every vehicle in California running 24/7 for 15 years. The Al Gores of those days were warning us that a doubling of the prevailing air pollution over North America would mean the end of life on the West Coast. Mount St. Helens was more on the order of 7 times the air pollution, and we’re still here. But that was a pop-gun compared to Pinatubo.
The peak eruption of Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) in 1991 lasted nearly nine hours. As much as 30 million tons of sulphur dioxide gas was emitted in that time. Think for a moment about the VOLUME of gas required to weigh 30 million tons (60 billion pounds).
To get back on topic, here’s the money quote from the Pinatubo page, regarding an eruption 10 times more polluting than Mt. St. Helens…
More pollution than all of mankind could generate in a decade, in just nine hours, covering the entire planet with a blanketing atmospheric layer, and 0.73 degrees reduction in mean temperature two years later was the maximum effect.
Meanwhile, we have an uptick in global temperatures during a 17-year sun-spot cycle peak of activity, and it must be man’s decadence destroying the Earth.
Freelancer on February 16, 2007 at 2:53 AM
Just when I think his intelligence has hit rock bottom, he pulls out a jackhammer. . .
Wolfman on February 16, 2007 at 4:11 AM
Yeah, I read that “hottest january” article too, though it’s again based on just over a century of records and if we want to be real about it, and why don’t we talk about November-December 2000 being the coldest November-December period on record in the United States?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndsfri10.htm
Bottom line: You know how we get “average” temperatures? By seasons of higher and by seasons of lower temperatures.
RightWinged on February 16, 2007 at 4:35 AM
:camera pans stage in Antarctica, zooming in on Ozone Al in a parka, microphone in hand:
Al: Ok, that was great, now I’ld like you all to put your gloves together for our next performer. Let’s hear it for Buster Poindexter, singing “Hot Hot Hot”!!!”
:silence, except for 30 mile per hour freezing winds:
Al:”Umm ….. Buster??”
:from back stage:
Buster: “F@&K You Al!!! I aint comming out there, my balls are frost bitten!!”
Al: ” Ok……. we seem to be having some technical difficulty here, let’s move on to Siberia and check in with The Red Hot Chilli Peppers!”
:fade to black:
mrfixit on February 16, 2007 at 5:30 AM
Does a polar bear crap on the melting ice caps? Hell yeah Don Goreleone’s making a run. Gore/Obama 08; KFB called it first.
Kid from Brooklyn on February 16, 2007 at 9:02 AM
Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
COLUMBUS , Ohio – A new report on climate over the world’s southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models.
This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth’s climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity.
It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.
David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.
“It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now,” he said. “Part of the reason is that there is a lot of variability there. It’s very hard in these polar latitudes to demonstrate a global warming signal. This is in marked contrast to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth.”
Bromwich says that the problem rises from several complications. The continent is vast, as large as the United States and Mexico combined. Only a small amount of detailed data is available – there are perhaps only 100 weather stations on that continent compared to the thousands spread across the U.S. and Europe . And the records that we have only date back a half-century.
“The best we can say right now is that the climate models are somewhat inconsistent with the evidence that we have for the last 50 years from continental Antarctica .
“We’re looking for a small signal that represents the impact of human activity and it is hard to find it at the moment,” he said.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php
Centurion68 on February 16, 2007 at 9:15 AM
That’s not true. There are three ways to lose heat/energy; conduction, convection and radiation. The last works quite well in a vacuum.
But knowing this takes the drama out of space fiction showing people freezing instantly when exposed to space. Since the only way they can lose heat is via radiation, it actually takes a veeery loooong time to freeze.
taznar on February 16, 2007 at 9:51 AM
On an only marginally scientific note, I hope Gore knows enough about climate to realize he’d bettr kick off that Antarctica concert real soon. In the next few months, while it warms up here in the States, its going to be getting much, much colder in Antarctica. We’d all be heartbroken if Gore and his merry band of entertainers got snowed in there for a few weeks.
taznar on February 16, 2007 at 9:54 AM
As I was trying to scrape the frozen snow off of my car in the employee parking lot at Balt/Wash/Int., I said to people walking by “Global warming huh? Global FREAKIN’ warming, HUH?” The laughed and shivered their way to their frozen cars.
It kills me that Bon Jovi gets involved with this crap, if I burn all of my Bon Jovi CDs, will it contribute to global warming?
Yes, Mt. Pinatubo put more crap in the air in one day than Man EVER has. Also, when the Left’s favorite dictator, Saddam, set fire to over 700 Kuwaiti oil wells, that put tons of raw, burnt oil pollution up there too. I remember libs predicting a “black ring around the earth for a thousand years” caused by this buring oil. Once again, the lefty loons predict rubbish and once again it doesn’t come true.
If these morons would put half as much effort into fighting islamic terrorism (the REAL threat) as they do with “global warming” we could have this thing over and done with before my daughter is old enough to wear a burqa.
Tony737 on February 16, 2007 at 12:46 PM
It would be great if you could only attend the shows if you could prove you got there using only “green energy”. You know, walk, bike, skate, sail, bio-diesel, etc. Just make sure your vehicle is also green. If the frame has to made from steel, it’s made in non-polluting factories, powered by non-polluting energy sources, by people whose lifestyles are equally green.
[If there isn't a group that certifies products "green", the way that produce is certified "organic", well there ought to be. (Sounds like an opportunity calling!)]
Then there’s the stage, lighting, amplification, media and all the performers themselves.
More likely, the vast majority of those attending will get there in environmentally destructive vehicles, powered by non-renewable energy sources. They won’t care and in fact, neither does Al Gore.
He’s already blown it.
What a hypocrite.
BTW - I hope the bands all have Tipper’s PMRC stamp of approval.
DuffBeer on February 16, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Great.
This is good news. It will take this stupid issue out of the public eye and stick it back in the eco-nut fringes where it belongs.
Just as Live 8 finally made the world sick to death of hearing the constant liberal Africa guilt trip.
Just as Fahrenheit 9/11 pulled the plug on the popular anti-war movement.
People can only take so much whining and moaning.
uptight on February 16, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Thanks for that. I’ve been saying all along that if it gets too hot we should nuke Mt. Rainier-problem solved!
I’ve also wondered how 4 or 5 suitcase nukes set off by Jihadis would affect the earth’s temperature, let alone ecosystems.
Damn and I like the RHCPs, too. Why do all the musicians have to be so stupid as to get involved in politics? I doubt Flea or any of the band members have Bachelors of Science degrees and I wonder if they can even outline the scientific method.
NTWR on February 16, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Guaranteed to tank.
Putz.
mojo on February 16, 2007 at 1:54 PM
Yes, holding a concert in Antarctica, with a kilometer high sheet of ice as a backdrop, is really going to promote the idea of Global Warming, isn’t it Al?
I wonder, Al, if you would use a backdrop of one of the Great Lakes when discussing the lack of fresh water in America?
BTW Al, do you plan on being “carbon-neutral” by swimming back from Antarctica when you’re finished there?
RedinBlueCounty on February 16, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Gore is a religious leader now, we should all bow our heads in reverence.
aengus on February 16, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Never gonna happen tony they have thier agenda and the dummies are stickin to it, LOL
bones47 on February 16, 2007 at 5:05 PM
Prediction…. while we’ve all gone over the important issues here, especially the finding that Antarctica isn’t getting warmer, that article reports that one specific small part of it is. My guess is that’s where he’ll go, and show pictures of what it used to look like, etc. and the idiots will eat it up.
RightWinged on February 16, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Yes, but the rupturing of the eyes, ears, brain, skin and other vital organs due to extreme pressure differential wouldn’t give you time to freeze, unfortunately.
Freelancer on February 17, 2007 at 12:37 AM
taznar, you are correct, Infrared/radiated heat will transfer through a vacuum, I touched on that in a prior post. But the amount of heat transferred from the earth by that mode is not significant compared to the rate at which the sun warms the planet. I think Al Gore wants us to believe that the primary means for cooling the planet is heat drifting out into space. But of course the vast majority of the earth’s heat is not in the form of IR and cannot dissipate into space because there is no conductor. My statement was made from a practical standpoint since IR transfer is insignificant in the scheme of cooling the planet.
What really cools the earth is water and the evaporative process. The sun heats the water and the air. Water evaporates to make water vapor which forms clouds. Clouds move over land and the vapor condenses once the right atmospheric conditions are met, which causes rain. That’s how we get an endless supply of fresh water. The water eventually flows back to the ocean and the process begins again. The heat is used-up in this process, it takes an enormous amount of heat to expand the water molecules to change it from a liquid into a gas. This is not the only way the planet is cooled but it is the primary way.
Maxx on February 17, 2007 at 1:07 AM
Also, why did they pick July 7th for this?
To a Brit, this is like choosing 9th September.
uptight on February 17, 2007 at 4:58 AM
sorry - 11th September
uptight on February 17, 2007 at 4:59 AM