Comments on: Live Earth Rocks The World

Worldwide Concert Series Goes Off Without A Hitch

[skyk-2009]

Also, if you truly believe humans are to blame for global warming, watching a pop music show is not going to help; sell your car and buy a bicycle, you hypocrites!
Posted by S_Temper at 11:11 AM : Jul 08, 2007

This isn't about Al Gore, it's about the EARTH! I can't figure out how attacking and trying to belittle Al Gore helps the issue at all. THEN this NAZI sets out to discredit and abuse those who freely gave of their time to bring the issue out for debate! Any FOOL who can't see the Climate isn't changing and NOT for the better is simply not intelligent or is super greedy. Either way this is not the kind of "One Party Rule" nut we need to be listening too. After all these are the losers who sold us George Bush INSTEAD of the person he attacks! Why? Why attack Al Gore? Why try to belittle him in everyone's eye's? It is something used extensively by the Third Reich and McCarty, to keep people from focusing on the abuses of their OWN Government. Why do some people feel the need to hate so badly they will not even LISTEN to what someone else has to say? Fascism, and that's what this is, is UGLY!!

[skyz2]

i learned about bamboo sheets and towels ~ googled a bit and found them reasonably priced at well know retailer ~ bamboo is very sustainable ~ grows superfast

so now i know one more thing that i can enjoy and not cost the enviroment ~

the shows were great ~ such enthusiasm

[jen89-2009]

How can anyone complain about a movement to save the earth.

[wdrussell1]

The extreme right sure messed up on this one.
If they didn't like the concerts they should have ignored them. By attacking them, they just showed they are loons and corporate sell-outs.

[rjstolba]

Forgetting the hype in both directions, I believe Live Earth was a hugh success. I give Al Gore, the stars, the producers, all involved high praise. Yes, the music was great; however, I believe the wake-up call that it gave to those of us that sit on our duffs and wait for everyone else to take care of things was even more magnificent. Even if half the folks that watched did 1 thing different today and for the rest of their lives, we will all benifit.

[sharncedar]

The modern twist is that the very worst offenders, the absolute worst polluters (like Al Gore with his 10,000 square foot home) are the same ego gluttons preaching and playing horrible music on our TV screens. Just one jet flight for these insipid noise-spewing morons damages the ozone layer more than the entire birth, life, and death of a quiet and religious country person.

I give them credit for sheer audacity and noise. But since their attention span is slightly below that of a hungry chipmunk, I expect they've already forgotten to "turn out some lights" and are instead busy wasting energy and brain cells at the clubs tonight.

[reaper_usa]

at 11:11 AM EST on 12-21-2012 it will not matter anymore. Google it. The end is here.

[roger_inkart]

If hypocritical egoist self-satisfied methane spewed from the two-bit stars on this show could be harnessed, we would solve all of our energy needs for decades.

Posted by SharnCedar at 10:12 AM : Jul 08, 2007

Or the frustration of the right-wing lunatics...who are starting to get a clue they will lose this battle.

Global warming is real. The only ones left denying it are the extreme right-wingers in the US. And they do so for idealogical reasons, not rational or reasonable. In the end, truth and reason will win out. It has to.

[roger_inkart]

The concerts were a success. The staduims were packed. Millions tuned in to watch online. Millions signed pledges to help fight global wamrning. Again, all the copying and pasting from lunatics on the right can't change that fact.

Sorry, Lars. This is just the first of what should and will be victories on our side and humiliation for yours. Your side looks stupid, slow, out of touch and desperate. And it's because you are.

[sharncedar]

If hypocritical egoist self-satisfied methane spewed from the two-bit stars on this show could be harnessed, we would solve all of our energy needs for decades. On the "***" scale of 1-10 (10 being really, really, gaseous) this show, which I was forced to watch with a liberal, was 11. Al Gore is like the king of boring, and then there were all the "big" stars like Kelly Clarkson and other manufactured nobodies chiding the public and telling us to turn off lights when we aren't the hosue, etc. Real geniuses, I thought for a second i was watching Science channel -- NOT. No, I was watching all-boring, all-bimb*o channel.

[lars008-2009]

it's global boring.... ala al bore...

climate change is a fact... the climate has always changed for the life of the planet... for most of the planets existance there has been no permanent ice...

adapt or die like the dinosaurs...

shocker... demonic-rats want to tax it... hahahaha

if all the people that truly believe that global warming is man made would kill themselves and their families..... there would be no more man made global warming....

Democratic candidates offer climate change proposals in 'virtual' town meeting
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/07/america/NA-GEN-US-Democrats-Climate-Change.php

if it is man made global warming....

why are they not calling for global population reductions????

guess they don't believe it either...

same reason their are no muslim mullah suicide bombers... hahahahaha

[hypnotoad72]

lars008 - Americans are the worst polluters?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/china-overtakes-us-as-worst-carbon-polluter/2007/06/20/1182019197701.html

Uh-oh.

And, as with Osama Bin Laden, it's unfair to criticize all the Saudi people for having the same generalization, just because he is Saudi. (and even I in some of my posts make unfounded generalizations too...) But I digress. It's unfair for a European to say all Americans are polluters.

Climate Change may or may not be real, but the truth is in the middle.

[cbsguest6]

I don't have a problem with protecting the environment. If something man made is blatantly ruining something in the environment then yeah get rid of it. For example dumping harmful chemicals into rivers. But I have a real problem with censoring dissenting views on the subject of global warming. If your true pursuit is to understand the causes of global warming then why ignore the evidence that contradicts the belief that humans are the cause? This is not science it is politics and history has proven when political ideologies and science don't agree with each other the true pursuit of scientific research looses. That's dangerous.

[searingtruth]

"... Nobody can tell how the world would be today if Mr. Gore had been accorded the presidency that he legitimately won, but at least something good for the world is happening due to Mr. Gore's proven committment to do the right things for whole human race."
Posted by adian1


"It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791"

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

[adian1-2009]

It is curious that we are witnessing one of the biggest ironies in history. A few guys deprived Mr. Gore of the presidency of the United States of America and gave it to a man that has been and is a curse to global environment. This man has acquired global recognition as the worst president the US ever had and is despised worldwide for multiple reasons. On the other hand, Mr. Gore has acquired global recognition for the rightest reasons and is admired and adored worldwide. Nobody can tell how the world would be today if Mr. Gore had been accorded the presidency that he legitimately won, but at least something good for the world is happening due to Mr. Gore's proven committment to do the right things for whole human race.

[searingtruth]

Tick, Tick

Fellow citizens, the truth is that our present can only be as stable as our future.

For too long we have hobbled from decade to decade, generation to generation, and millennium to millennium, myopically adhering to superfluous battles that can never be won. Never once as a species forwarding or embracing an all encompassing path towards a certainly better future.

Our excuses have been many, our reasoning mostly incoherent, and our lack of vision as a species, certainly fatal.

For in the meantime, as each tick of the ages has passed, the critical threats posed and ignored by our species discordance have increased exponentially.

Pandemic famine and disease, massively destructive weapons, fatal atmospheric and climate change, super volcanic eruptions, catastrophic space body impacts, Orwellian societies of unparalleled oppression, and many other global catastrophes too numerous to list here, waiting to befall us at any moment.

In fact, one of the most immediate and ominous threats facing America and much of the world today is the utilization of advanced technologies for the implementation of authoritarian control over societies.
...
In retrospect, when one soberly considers the critical challenges that we must face together to survive as a species, our differences, at times, can become almost imperceptible.
Excerpt from A Future of the Brave

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[pianoman42]

Come on all you Nobel Laureates do not stand there do something. And all you top scientists; where are you when we need you. Wanted: a meteorological Einstein or an Albertian bioengineer. To construct a really hungry microorganism that needs CO2 like a druggie needs a fix. Or something. Help we need somebody.......or we're gonna be the shortest lived species ever.

Or is Madonna wrong. Hope so.

[andor3]

It is inspiring to see such a great leader with such character making it all look effortless and fun--Al Gore is a national treasure.

It's easy to see why he makes conservatives cranky--they were under the silly impression he'd lost some contest or other, but really they didn't even understand the game.

[lars008-2009]

It's an inconvenient truth, but mixing rock with recycling is awkward. In a TV interview earlier this week, Matt Bellamy of the band Muse mocked the event as "private jets for climate change."

John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday that Live Earth will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas.

"We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth," he said, speaking by telephone. But, he added, "if you can reach 2 billion people and raise awareness, that's pretty fantastic."

Certainly, on the way into the show, some of the 65,000 people who'd spent $110 on a ticket appeared unaware of the seven-point pledge that Al Gore, the event's chief impresario, had asked all spectators to make. Asked about it, they offered blank looks and said they were there for Madonna (whose annual carbon footprint, according to Buckley, is 1,018 tons -- about 92 times the 11 tons an average person uses per year).

"I'm not even sure who Gore is," said Georgie Simpson, 35, from Ipswich, in eastern England. "I saw Gore on TV," added Sue Bourner, 38, a health service manager from Hampshire. "But frankly, I think it's cheeky of Americans to come over here and lecture us. They are the worst polluters."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701201_pf.html

[danborn]

There is a component of warming/cooling due to precession, or 'wobble', in the earths orbit, known as the Milankovitch effect (see Wikipedia et al.), which seems to account for previous ice ages.

However there is another component at work which is superimposed upon the Milankovitch cycle, one that is corroborated by data from ice cores dating back 600,000 years.

There is simply no point in that history where background CO2 levels were ever as high as they are today. And the Earth's mean temperature is 100% correlated to CO2 levels.

That quite simply is what all the fuss is about. We've been releasing CO2 that has been fixed by millions of years of phytoplankton and other photosynthetic plant action, scrubbing our atmosphere and creating vast hydrocarbon deposits of coal and oil.

There is a very real concern that we need to put that genie back in the bottle much more quickly than natural cycles can unassisted.