Did you realize the political commercial turned rock concert, Live Earth, occurred this past weekend?   Did you catch any of it?   No, I didn't either.   Pretty stupid stuff, wasn't it?   Turnout for the shows wasn't quite what had been expected or advertised.   There were less than 3,000 people at the Asian show.   You know Asia, that's the place where about half the Earth's population live and home to the country, China, which now allegedly pumps the largest amount of the allegedly evil carbon into the atmosphere.   2,700 was the number who showed up, I think.   That's not bad.   It's PATHETIC!

At Giants Stadium, itself an environmental catastrophe for the natural carbon sink located in the swamps of Jersey, there were 52,000 fans in attendance.   Not for nothin' but I went to see Foghat there many moons ago when there were more people there, actually about double.   OK so Rick Derringer, Ted Nugent and Aerosmith played too.   But the Meadowlands generally doesn't hold any concerts which don't guarantee a better draw than Loud Earth had.   They stick such weak draws into Continetal Arena.   That's where acts like "Barney" and the Wiggles end up doing a few dates because they only have 100,000 people interested.   Heck the circus does better than Loud Aid did in the most densely populated place on Earth.   No place has as many enviro-whackoes and all out lefties as New Jersey does.   But they were only able to draw fewer people than on average attend each of the Yankees 81 homes games, across the river, each year.   That's not even pathetic!

On the web, MSN bragged that it had delivered 10 million streams.   That would include all the people who clicked, watched for 5 seconds or failed to get a good stream and left.   10 million streams?   On the Internet?   What's the potential audience?   Maybe 2 billion?   That's a big fat flop if ever there was one.   10 million?   Less than a half percent of the world's population cared to even click for the event of the century, event of the millenium.

When all the numbers are in, I believe we'll see that this "event" caused the greatest amount of "greenhouse gases" to be pumped into the air of any event ever staged on Earth, including some years-lasting wars!   That's because, with modern technology, these numerous "artists" took private planes, some to travel half the distance around the planet, to the venues and thereby pumped more gases into the atmosphere than any previous recorded event.

But that's OK.   They had good intentions, really good intentions.   They asked the world to commit to forging a treaty aimed at a 90% cut in carbon emissions.   90% cut?   Heck, the world has not been able to come up with a treaty to hold emissions steady, let alone actually cut them.   A 90% cut would mean everyone would have to move south to places where maybe global warming hasn't yet been tamed, like the equator, so they could avoid freezing to death.   Most of the signatories to Kyoto have succeeded only in increasing their emissions by a reasonable percentage.   Not that any of this matters but the effort was abysmal.

Today we are left with a concert having taken place which nobody was interested in unless their favorite band was playing and only to the extent it was.   Nobody was interested in this thing from a knowledge expansion point of view.   That shouldn't surprise anyone since the thing was supposed to promote ideas which dominate, absolutely DOMINATE, most mainstream media outlets throughout the world.   If anyone is not familiar with Al Gore's point of view, where the hell have they been?   What do they do with their time?   Do they have indoor plumbing or electricity?   Do they not own lightbulbs or TVs?

Al Gore is probably the only winner in all this.   To the extent there were any profits from the concert series, his private BUSINESS venture, Alliance for Climate Protection, gets them.

I think the whole damn business can be summed up with this simple fact, Spinal Tap (one of history's loudest fake bands!) played!!   Listen to what the flower people say, listen, it's getting louder every day!!!

Labels: environmentalism, global warming