First there was Live Aid –

A multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985 organized to raise awareness and funding to help relieve the effects of a widespread famine in Ethiopia. Billed as the ‘global jukebox’, the main sites for the event were Wembley Stadium, London and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia which attracted an attendance of about 72,000 and 90,000 respectively. Other acts performed at other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated 1.5 billion viewers, across 100 countries, watched the live broadcast.

Then there was Live 8 –

A series of benefit concerts that took place on July 2, 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and Summit held in Scotland from July 6-8 2005. They were also timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid. Run in support of the aims of the UK’s Make Poverty History campaign and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty, the shows planned to pressure world leaders to drop the debt of the world’s poorest nations, increase and improve aid, and negotiate fair trade rules in the interest of poorer countries. Ten simultaneous concerts were held on July 2nd and one on July 6th. On July 7th, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to poor nations from 25 to 50 billion US dollars by the year 2010. Half of the money was to go to Africa.

In other words, the Live 8 event had a goal of influencing political leaders rather than raise private sector money as was done in ‘85. This turned off many Conservatives in the US.

In the classic tradition of morons not learning from experience, a third sequel was planned. This time, to “raise awareness” to the non-problem of global climate change called, Live Earth. And like most third in the series sequels, Live Earth departed from the success of the first event changing its focus from poverty and hunger to the egotistical idea that man is solely responsible for the rise in earth’s temperatures.

This massively expensive ecomoronic lovefeast was planned by the politically insignificant has been politician and High Priest of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots, former Vice President Chicken Little, I mean former Vice President Al Gore. Speaking to the concert goers in that incredibly condescending manner that he is well known for, Gore hoped to raise awareness to a non-problem that he and his cult followers have already been successful in saturating the media with. I mean how much more awareness did this event hope to raise. They’ve already gotten the bulk of the world believing this bunk when the science just doesn’t support his conclusions.

The arrogant idea that man has the power to effect the world’s climate shows that man, no matter how intelligent we are, can’t realize that we don’t control the world, we are part of it.

The earth’s climate has been changing since the planet came into existence. Which is evidenced by an article that appeared in AFP last Friday…

Via Breitbart.com

Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said Thursday the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed.

DNA of trees, plants and insects including butterflies and spiders from beneath the southern Greenland glacier was estimated to date to 450,000 to 900,000 years ago, according to the remnants retrieved from this long-vanished boreal forest.

That contrasts sharply with the prevailing view that a lush forest of this kind could only have existed in Greenland as recently as 2.4 million years ago, according to a summary of the study, which is published Thursday in the journal Science.

The samples suggest the temperature probably reached 10 degrees C (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer and -17 C (1 F) in the winter.

They also indicated that during the last period between ice ages, 116,000-130,000 years ago, when temperatures were on average 5 C (9 F) higher than now, the glaciers on Greenland did not completely melt away.

“These findings allow us to make a more accurate environmental reconstruction of the time period from which these samples were taken,” said Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a co-author of the paper.

“What we’ve learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought.”

In a separate paper, also published in Science, European experts said they had analysed the world’s deepest ice core, enabling them to reconstruct patterns of warming and glaciation over the past 800,000 years.

The 3,260-metre (10,595-feet) core was drilled into the East Antarctica icesheet at the Franco-Italian base, Dome C. The drillers, gathered in a venture called the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) stopped just 15 metres (48.75 feet) short of the bedrock.

Using traces of the hydrogen isotope deuterium in air bubbles trapped in the ice layers, the scientists built a record of greenhouse-gas concentrations over the aeons, which in turn provides a record of temperature.

They found the temperature varied widely, by as much as 15 C (27 F) over the 800,000 years. In the last Ice Age, which ended around 11,000 years ago, the temperature was 10 C (18 F) lower than today.

The EPICA team had previously analysed the Dome C core to a depth equivalent to 650,000 years ago.

If there were no humans, no cars, no industrialization, no wasteful incandescent light bulbs, and no burning of fossil fuels to heat and light homes, then what prey tell is the explanation for temperatures in excess of those we are currently experiencing?

-Crickets-

How about natural cyclic phenomena?

Current science better supports the idea that sunspot activity, not carbon dioxide has a direct effect on the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is water vapor. Water vapor is produced by the world’s oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams and it is this water vapor which is trapping the heat in NOT carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide makes up 1/400th of 1% of all the gases in our atmosphere. Of that, man is responsible for approximately 3%. So if we were to halt all of man’s contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere, at best we would be saving an unimpressive 6 Billion Metric Tons. There would still be an estimated 180 Billion Metric Tons entering without man’s contribution.

Along with this is the fact that increases in carbon dioxide levels lag temperature increases by 10 – 20 years. So literally increases in CO2 are the result of, not the cause of global warming.

The Live Earth event was an undeniable failure. The South African show was hindered by a massive snow storm. Snow Storm! Talk about poetic justice!

Television audiences did not tune in.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

NBC’s three-hour primetime “Live Earth” special, which included highlights from Saturday’s global concerts, failed to generate much enthusiasm in the ratings.

The estimated 2.7 million viewers was slightly under the 3 million viewers NBC has averaged on Saturday nights in the summer with repeats and the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs on what is already the least-popular night of television.

One climate expert has estimated that approximately 100,000 trees would need to be planted to “offset” the energy used in jet fuel shuttling those rock stars to their various venues. That’s real ecofriendly isn’t it? I wonder how many trees it would take to offset the billions of kilowatt hours of electricity used at the various venues for lighting and sound?

Offsetting carbon usage is nothing more than a self imposed tax on carbon. Carbon taxes will do nothing to reverse global warming. And neither will having a house that uses 100 times the amount of energy as does the average American household Mr. Gore.