Al Gore, Global Warming and 2008

Announced today, Al Gore has made official what he’s calling ‘Live Earth’ - a concert addressing the climate crisis.

Actually, make that plural - 7 concerts in total - across all 7 Continents reaching a global audience of over 2 Billion people. Locations announced were Sydney, Japan, Johannesburg, Brazil, Shanghai, London, and the Eastern United States.

Over 100 artists have already signed on, including Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith Hill, and John Mayer. I’ve also heard Coldplay is in the works.

Check it out and get involved!

http://liveearth.org/

http://liveearth.msn.com/

Are you planning on going to this?

Looks like Al is teaming up with Richard Branson (of Virgin empire fame) to offer a $25 Million dollar prize for anyone who invents/develops a cost-effective way to remove greenhouse gas causing carbon from the atmosphere. The ‘Virgin Earth Challenge’, as they’re calling it, goal is to remove one billion tonnes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere a year for ten years.

Have an idea? Sumbit it here:

http://www.virginearth.com/

Do you think anyone can win this?

Gore’s time and dedication to address the threat of global warming and climate change was recognized in Oslo, Norway today as he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference,” mentioned Boerge Brende, the former minister of environment.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is typically announced in mid-October, with the award presented a few months later in December.

Do you think Al will win?

Mike Davidson’s blog (a favorite of ours) has a hilariously great write up on a screengrab he captured during a viewing of AIT on DVD.

Check it out here..

It’s official, Al Gore’s film documenting the perils of Global Warming garnered two Oscar nominations - one for best documentary feature and the other for best original song. Now, Al’s not technically the one being nominated (the film’s director, Davis Guggenheim, won the nod, as did singer Melissa Etheridge for the song ”I Need to Wake Up”).

 ”The film … has brought awareness of the climate crisis to people in the United States and all over the world,” Gore said in an e-mail statement. ”I am so grateful to the entire team and pleased that the Academy has recognized their work. This film proves that movies really can make a difference.”

Other films nominated for best documentary feature include “Deliver Us From Evil,” about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church; “Iraq in Fragments,” about the Sunni-Shiite conflict in that country; “Jesus Camp,” about a summer camp for evangelical Christians, and “My Country, My Country,” about the months leading up to the January 2005 elections in Iraq.

So… do you think the film should have been nominated?

National Geographic wrote a nice piece a while back examining several global warming aspects of Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, in an attempt to determine whether the scientific claims made in the movie are accurate, or -basically- hot air.

The consensus?

The movie was accurate - actually pretty darn accurate. They did take a few liberties in explaining a few points, though..

See what you think..

Check it out here

Do you think Global Warming is real?