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Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'
By Carlos Grande and Fiona Harvey
Published: February 8 2007 02:00 | Last updated: February 8 2007 02:00
A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2bn.
The event, scheduled for July 7, will feature co-ordinated film, music and television events in seven cities including London, Washington DC, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto, with major broadcasters and media owners aiming to extend the reach of public awareness of global warming.
It is understood that former US vice-president Al Gore, whose movie An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to cinema audiences last year, will announce the event tomorrow in London.
The organisers hope to involve up to 2.5m people in events and link-ups at the cities involved, as well as other locations.
They are promising a line-up of artists to "dwarf" that of the Live8 and Live Aid concerts, thought to be branded under the name "SOS".
One person close to the event said yesterday: "The talent involved is just exponentially bigger because the issue itself is bigger.
"Live Aid was about asking people to stump up money, this is about effecting systemic change.
"The aim is not just to drive awareness but to get people to take action."
These actions are likely to include personal pledges to reduce emissions, for instance by using energy efficient equipment or flying less.
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Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'
By Carlos Grande and Fiona Harvey
Published: February 8 2007 02:00 | Last updated: February 8 2007 02:00
A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2bn.
The event, scheduled for July 7, will feature co-ordinated film, music and television events in seven cities including London, Washington DC, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto, with major broadcasters and media owners aiming to extend the reach of public awareness of global warming.
It is understood that former US vice-president Al Gore, whose movie An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to cinema audiences last year, will announce the event tomorrow in London.
The organisers hope to involve up to 2.5m people in events and link-ups at the cities involved, as well as other locations.
They are promising a line-up of artists to "dwarf" that of the Live8 and Live Aid concerts, thought to be branded under the name "SOS".
One person close to the event said yesterday: "The talent involved is just exponentially bigger because the issue itself is bigger.
"Live Aid was about asking people to stump up money, this is about effecting systemic change.
"The aim is not just to drive awareness but to get people to take action."
These actions are likely to include personal pledges to reduce emissions, for instance by using energy efficient equipment or flying less.
Are they going to power these concerts with wind turbines, are the acts going to swim to their destination.
Of course not they are going to preach about buying offsetting credits. The newest scam environmental scam.
Also they will not address the fact that in order to stabilize carbon emissions, the world would have to freeze development and this would kill African development.
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dude, i heard this guy on FOX news saying that global warming was invented for the weather channel ratings. hilarious!
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dude, i heard this guy on FOX news saying that global warming was invented for the weather channel ratings. hilarious!
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Thats awesome.
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I hope they can get The Hooters to open this one too.
In any case, this is wonderful news. They cured hunger in Africa with the other one, right? So getting rid of global warming is just a matter of time now.
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Thats awesome.
yep. media guests are getting more extreme lately. yesterday, when mccain's campaign was accused of soemthing, a guy was on msnbc defending him:
Was McCain's team wrong?
"If that story is real, the media would have covered it".
The media did cover it.
"I didn't see it"
Here is the article, from the NY Times yesterday
"Oh, you trust everything you read in the NY times?"
I laughed my ass off. I guess the best way to avoid facts is to completely ignore sources you don't like!
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I guess the best way to avoid facts is to completely ignore sources you don't like!
Hey, ...don't mess with a sure thing. That policy has been working for guys like Bush for 6 yrs now.
If it's good enough for Bush, ...it's good enough for Rush, ...and if it's good enough for Rush, I-One loves it. :P