Al Gore's Live Earth: Has Global Warming Hysteria 'Jumped the Shark'

The American Thinker ^ | July 6, 2007 | John Berlau

[Eric Blair 2084]

This weekend, rock stars will jet around the world, cars and buses will clog traffic, and elaborate sound stages will be set up to burn massive amounts of fuel to send the message to fans at home that they had better conserve their energy or face the allegedly dire threat of global warming.

The Live Earth concerts, which start this Saturday, July 7, are also one last chance for Baby Boomers to relive the "flower power" activism of the '60s. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, former Vice President Al Gore invoked music icon Bob Dylan to promote the importance of these concerts. Citing Dylan's '60 anthem "The Times They Are A-Changin'". Gore rambled: "What's the old Bob Dylan line? 'Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call/Rattle your windows' - what's the rest of it? - 'for the times they are a-changin'."

But there's just one problem with invoking Dylan to hype the global warming scare. And that is that Dylan himself has expressed skepticism -- to the same magazine -- at the notion that global warming is a catastrophe. When he was asked by Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner in the magazine's 40th anniversary issue if he worried about global warming, Dylan replied with an unexpected rejoinder. He asked Wenner, "Where's the global warming? It's freezing here." Wenner, who has blanketed Rolling Stone and his other magazine Men's Journal with doom-and gloom climate change stories (that often bash my organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute), quickly moved on to other topics after he received his comeuppance.

Yet Dylan's latest statement may signal that in the global warming debate, the times are changing. Even independent-minded celebrities are now questioning the establishment media orthodoxy that the debate over global warming and its effects are all but over.

[Major Matt Mason]

We work with various ad networks that serve banners to the site. Some of them make sense for the content provided (or at least for that demographic), while other banners don't make much sense. In the case of these concerts, I'm sure these ads are appearing all over the internet, so I don't think the content of the site is taken into account. Clearly, though, our readers have little interest in these concerts.

[mngalt]

Yep, if you want more proof of Bob’s good sense look up the lyrics to his song Neighborhood Bully. I believe it’s on the Infidel album. Also, when Joan Baez and the rest of the anti-war 60s crowd tried to get him to jump on their bandwagon, he basically said, “You go your way, I’ll go mine.”

[doug from upland]

Of course it has jumped the shark. I heard a commerical foa a light bulb company that had supposed men on the street comments. A woman actually said, “Our climate is broken.”

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

That issue was clearly when SI jumped the shark...

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[potlatch]

Good graphic!

[Mike-o-Matic]

  Algore is such a Potsie!

That is SO unfair to Potsie.

[goldstategop]

Bob Dylan Bump

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[golas1964]

LOL - Algore: Sit on it!!!

[golas1964]

Oh, and make sure you use only one square afterwards...

[lndrvr1972]

But but thats different we are here to help the enviorment because we are rich.

[devolve]

algore    greenies

drive    what?

[potlatch]

GREENIE'S GAS GUZZLERS GEAR for GORE

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LOL!

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LOL

[aruanan]

Al looks like he jumped a shark, all right, and ate it.

The poor fat dope has peaked and is on his way down. We can only hope that he gets the Nobel Peace Prize and can parlay that into the Democrat nomination for president and then take the whole rotten Democrat edifice down with him.

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So algore invited converted to radical Islam terrorist Cat Stevens to peform at “Live Earth”

I wondered when algore (#2) would finally join Al Qaeda and flaunt it for big bucks......

[potlatch]

Most of the people there either don’t know that or don’t care!! The worse the celebrity, the more they like them.

[potlatch]

The beginning of the end...

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Very strange algore would invite Cat Stevens to perform

There is something going on here not yet fully revealed

A bid for the Muslim and black vote in an entry for 2008

How more dramatically to capture the extreme leftist voters

Watch algore comments on illegal aliens and open borders