What are 100,000 Trees among Friends?

Photo of Dan Gainor.

Live Earth or Live Al (as opposed to the version we’ve always seen) was a laugh riot. Lots of know-nothing rockers interspersed with juvenile Youtube-esque videos made for a day few could survive without nausea. It was a celebration of hypocrisy on a global scale and for NBC it was a marathon contribution to lefty causes. (Anyone think the Fairness Doctrine would ever stop something left-wing like this?)

The kicker comes courtesy of our friends at Sunday’s Washington Post. Matt Bellamy from the band Muse called the event “private jets for climate change.” And John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an eco group that helps firms cut their footprint, said “We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effects of Live Earth.”

There were a few other highlights:

  • Dollars and no sense – For the video of Madonna’s “Hey you,” when words had the letter “S” in them, the video screen showed several of them with $ signs instead. I thought that summed up the concert very well. Al is coming for your money and since none of us has rock singer wallets, be afraid. Be very afraid.
  • Everywhere a sign – When singer Macy Gray performed, she had the words and symbols emblazoned on her dress. On her chest was “Darfur,” on her skirt was “Red Alert” and a big peace symbol was on her butt. I could make so many jokes about this, I’ll just pass and leave them to the able posters here. But I am reminded of an ancient Smothers Brothers song called “Map of the World.”
  • Bombs away – The band Linkin Park and comedian Chris Rock dropping the f-bomb. (Heck, after watching a few minutes, I sure wanted to do so.)
  • Moving the world – Madonna again, urged people: “If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down.” Perhaps she was trying to cause her own planetary shift by having everyone jump up and down at once. Or maybe she was simply trying to guilt people into dancing to something not worth their time.

—Dan Gainor is director of the Business and Media Institute.


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Hmmm...Peace symbol attache

Hmmm...Peace symbol attached to female singer's ass....There's at least one joke in there, you're right! "May the peace of her ass be with you this Sunday morning!"
JMR

Just thinkin'

Wouldn't that be a 'piece' symbol?

Yes. PINKPIECE - Save the Fe

Yes. PINKPIECE - Save the Females.

 Ignorance is bliss. It's easier to repeat a mindless slogan than to do some actual research.

One more thing...Did those

One more thing...Did those F-bombs make it out over the "public" airwaves? This could be that mythical, chimera of a NB post where the big government censorship apparatus of the left (the "fairness" doctrine) is cited at the same time as the big government censorship apparatus of the right (the FCC) is possibly invoked. I've been waiting for this moment to say it: BOTH SUCK, SO LET'S SCRAP 'EM BOTH FOREVER!!!
JMR

If you want to save the plane

If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down

Okay, that's pretty lame.

Unless, that is, you're a g

Unless, that is, you're a guy at a concert laden with boobs of various sorts -- and not just Al Gore, if you know what I mean! ;)
JMR

Dahlia, They need to jum

Dahlia,

They need to jump up and down to shake the crap off the butts of all of the "one sheet" wipers.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment
vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

"Clap if you believe in

"Clap if you believe in fairies!" has worked on generations of 5-year-olds. Personally, I'd like to see the 'jump up and down to save the planet' catch on. You could spot the dopes coming and take evasive action or prepare to engage as the mood strikes.

What exactially was accomplis

What exactially was accomplished from this event?

100,000 trees. Concert goers

100,000 trees. Concert goers can just send in their checks payable to Al Gore.

1) "How to turn a hoax i

1) "How to turn a hoax into a religion and have Americans pay for it"  by Algore

2)  Make your check payable to Algore.

3) If Hollywood or rock stars endorse it, it MUST be true because they know better.

Yes, that's the question tha

Yes, that's the question that has been lurking in the back of my mind for the last two days.

Try to understand...For som

Try to understand...For some of us, including -- I'd wager -- most of the male sex, getting all of the young girls at a concert to jump up & down for any reason is an accomplishment! Global warming? Who cares?? ;)
JMR

Well, gee Wally -- awarenes

Well, gee Wally -- awareness was raised, don't you see? There were probably 20-30 people worldwide who were converted to the cause.

I think the technical term for this sort of event is "circle jerk."

Too funny dervish

Too funny dervish. 

And isn't the goal of a circle jerk.....self-gratification?  Yeppers, that will save the planet.   You go, gorebots....

Well, self-gratification, b

Well, self-gratification, but in a group. Seemed like an apt metaphor...

“We would have to plant

“We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effects of Live Earth.”

Only 100,000? I would think that's a really low-ball estimate for an event of this size......a million seems more likely. I mean, this thing is HUGE!

100,000 trees does seem a pre

100,000 trees does seem a pretty small number, does`nt it?

They're not counting the priv

They're not counting the private jets to get the environmentally sensitive big wigs to this trite. Or their free perks.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

So, according to Madonna, if

So, according to Madonna, if you jump up and down you will save the planet?

I'm sure there were many there who did just that, felt good about it, and lit a doobie satisfied the world was saved.

I wonder if they raised a banner there that read, "Mission Accomplished."

According to this, a mature

According to this, a mature tree can absorb 48 lbs. of CO2 per year;

http://www.coloradot...

And according to this, the energy consumption of the bands and the concert goers will come to 31,500 tons of CO2, or 63 million pounds of CO2.

http://www.dailymail...

So it would probably take well over a million new trees to just offset the CO2 output of this one-day event.

chessplayer: But then, if the

chessplayer:

But then, if there's a forest fire somewhere in the world, would that defeat the work of 1 million trees? Or would normal forrest growth be enough?

What if my begonias die!!

And what about all the tropic

And what about all the tropical rainforest trees being chopped down to plant corn and sugar cane for biodiesel?

Clearly, not all factors were taken into account.  This needs to be completely re-calculated ...

Chess...comes to 1,312,500 tr

Chess...comes to 1,312,500 trees. Would take a year. My question is, where are you going to find that many mature trees to plant? That will be the trick. We need new trees! New mature trees that are sprouted from pine cones and acorns full growed!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Howdy bass....Yep, I think we

Howdy bass....

Yep, I think we know in real life how and what to do when it comes to taking care of nature in real life.

....these idiots are and have been the ones destroying it....if possible.

Mother Nature has been doing just fine thank you very much.

Yep, BT. The best way to save

Yep, BT. The best way to save the planet is.....get ready for this....kill an islamic extremest tree hugger!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Aw, man, that's easy -- you

Aw, man, that's easy -- you just pay Al for "tree credits," and it's just like you actually have planted them! Haven't you been paying attention?

I watched some of Gorestock o

I watched some of Gorestock on Bravo network last night as anyone would watch a trainwreck.  When did Madonna start playing the guitar.  The song sucked and you in a dress acting like a guitar hero looked desperate. 

Melissa Etheridge, is she David Crosby's child or did he only donate sperm for her child. She is looking more and more like David Crosby.  And her rant on how to improve the earth.  What you're actually saying is if I go live in a cave with no heat, your guilt will be assauged?

Unplug your cell phone after it is charged?  If everyone in the world takes that advice we will save 100 watts a day.   Anyway, I don't even own a cell phone, anyone want to buy my cell phone carbon credit?

The pictures of coal mining bad, wind farms good.  How many US states would we have to turn into wind farms to produce enough energy for the London concert alone.  Solar panels, miles and miles of solar  panels.  Who is going to clean and maintain them.  Wouldn't it cost more to build and maintain all those panels than the energy they produce.  Or is it another government jobs program like all those recycling programs in most cities.  Good union jobs heavily dependant on subsidies but make us feel good.

Preach to me oh rock stars and celebrities.  You who jet 6000 miles to play 2 songs and tell me what I need to do to save the planet.  You sit in your idling air-conditioned bus waiting for the adoring fans to soak in your brilliant words of wisdom. 

 

The Police were pretty good-u

The Police were pretty good-until they brought Kanye West out to help them with their final song. He added "new lyrics", including blatantly political ones. That's when I went to bed!

On TX and windmills

Wouldn't those Leftists love to be standing on a stretch of Interstate 10 in TX (you know, the state that Bush once was governor of) watching all of those windmill components going by on their way west! 

This state is full of the things now.  Now, if only we could add about 6-8 additional reactors apiece to Comanche Park and the STNP in Bay City...:-)

MAKE WAY FOR THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS!!!  THE 1999, 2003, 2005, AND 2007 NBA CHAMPIONS!!!!

I was on vacation in Iowa a

I was on vacation in Iowa and got a chance to see windmill alley. It was really very cool to see in person. However, the space needed for those mills means less space for corn... less biodiesel! Oh no! I asked a local about it and he basically said it's still experiemental. One website states that Iowa produces 836 megawatts a year from commercial windmills. My city of Jacksonville, FL consumed about 3,000 megawatts in one year (2005). Can wind power be the end all, be all? I don't think so.

I'm sure there were many th

I'm sure there were many there who did just that, felt good about it, and lit a doobie satisfied the world was saved.

Of course they did, Mica. Don't you know, in liberal-land, it's good intentions that count, not results....all you have to do to be a hero is to be "aware" of something. Hence all the "awareness" ribbons....wear the ribbon, show your "awareness", and that makes you a better person than everyone else.

Late addition: and that's why they think the way to save the earth is to have a concert.

MB - and for having "goo

MB - and for having "good intentions" (and lying every time you open your mouth) there are some that will be awarded honorary doctorates!!!!

Silliness...

I'd venture to say that most people in attendance could care less about Al Gore's cult and were instead there to enjoy the bands. Heck, I watched Roger Waters perform last night on one of the broadcasts, even though I think this entire AGW business is bunk...and I think most of the rest of the world feels that way too (including most REAL climate scientists).

Cunservatyve military medical guy

If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's vote!

Al doesn't say, "global

Al doesn't say, "global warming" anymore, I noticed.  It's the more carefully worded and propaganda-friendly, "climate change".

Yeah, there's climate change.  It's called the 'seasons'. 

God help us.  ooops.  I meant, Reverend Al, save us!

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar. 

Yeah, there's climate change.

Yeah, there's climate change.  It's called the 'seasons'. or just plain old weather.

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”   -Chief Justice John Roberts 

No, no, no!!! Don't you kn

No, no, no!!! Don't you know the earth's climate has been the same for  thousands, nay, millions of years....only NOW it's undergoing a change!!!

Chris Rock

Chris Rock, aside from his use of the "F" bomb, probably had the best comment about this, from the stage at least:

"I pray that this event ends global warming the same way that Live Aid ended world hunger," he said in London.

We've seen the results of that, along with the effort of USA for Africa, in earlier times. 

Never argue with an idiot.  They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

pbthinker: But . . but . . t

pbthinker:

 But . . but . . they sang "We Are the World" so sincerely!

That's either Africa or South America, not sure.  - - -The entire cast of USA for Africa looking at a globe

See my response above, re g

See my response above, re good intentions, LOL

Trees Gone Wild

And on a lighter note: Man Dressed as Tree Robs Bank

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria

Yeah, that's just one of our

Yeah, that's just one of our local New Hampshire squirrels coming out of the woodwork. Al Gore should find and hire him. 

dead trees standing

Here in Colorado, we have millions (literally) of dead pine trees due to a beetle infestation that could have been stopped by cutting some of these diseased trees decades ago. But the eco-idiots banned all logging so the trees were left standing to spread the beetle larvae that killed the trees and went on to lay eggs as moths in healthy trees.

The eco-idiots are led by stealth Marxists like Colorado's U.S. Rep. Mark Udall whose wife was president of the state Sierra Club chapter. The media will only refer to her as a "conservationist." Unlike global warming (if there really is such a thing), eco-idiots like Udall defend zero-tolerance logging policies that enabled the infestation by saying these dead trees are part of a natural cycle! Talk about hypocrisy!

People here drive Toyota Priuses and talk about how many trees they are saving by driving a hybrid, yet the number of trees that innane environmental policies have killed is far worse than what any industrial application could have done. But no one is held accountable and the media ignore the story -- no AP pictures of the devastated forests and hillsides compared to hundreds of pictures of low reservoirs whenever it hasn't rained in a week.

Dead trees that couldn't be r

Dead trees that couldn't be removed were also a major factor in the recent Lake Tahoe fire.

J17.......and all those years

J17....

...and all those years of infestations let alone non-clearing of brush and thininning is going to happen again....soon...as it has every year.

I want to know when the greenies and Congress with their laws are going to be held accountable for the losses in every single way...and I am not in the mood to name the countless cost affects let alone loss of personal property and job security and bankruptcy that this has all caused.

Wait a minute...that will never happen.

When these endless law-suits stop that are filed year after year, and the loser has to pay for all costs...then and only then will they stop.

My former place of work was s

My former place of work was surrounded by a state park filled with mature pines. Beautiful. When the pine beatles struck the state decided to let nature take it's course. All those dead trees and that scrub looks so much beater than all those mature pines. Many with a 3+ foot diameter.

You can tell when you leave state land. The private property owners sprayed. All those horrid pesticides. All that poison killing the environment. All that mature pine on private land.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

Kill earth to save it and Murder people to save them

"Global Warming" as proven by this story is nothing more than an extension of the "medical cartel" which is all run by the banking cartels of Rockefellers in America and Rothschilds in Europe with the German Warburgs.

Global Warming is designed to so tax free nations to implode them into forever enslavement from lack of travel to only existing on benefits as the elite dictate to all. Idiot rockers send a message to kill the planet in all their pollution in order to save it.

It is no different than the medical cartel in America run by the Rockefellers from controlling the entire AMA which dictates to doctors "acceptable treatments" which only poison human bodies, butcher human bodies or radiate human bodies.....all because like "carbon footprints" there is mass profit to be made in it and control over corporations making them criminal for doing business.

Take for example in the medical equal of Terri Schiavo camped out in heaven that the
liberals should have left the story behind, but yet there are still
stories popping up arguing "whether Terri knew or not".
Apparently even Godless ilk have troubled souls and their Rockefeller
medical cartel is still trying to convince the world that murdering
people is a good thing as the stories still are there riding Terri
Schiavo one last time.

People know when they ponder this that the facts prove perfectly well Terri
and others were souls very well and alert to what is going on. As a
personal example to all the information coming in my aunt went into a
coma from a botched cancer operation on her intestines where they had
the bowel leaking poison into the rest of the body.
The doctor wanted to end it for her, but the family said no. I honestly
thought she was dead, but she recovered and she HEARD EVERY WORD PEOPLE
WERE SAYING. So much for brain dead, comatose and lights out Ronald Reagan who knew very well what was going on as the soul is alive even when the brain is not functioning 100%.

"These people" know all of this and it is their deliberate misleading
the subject which allows them to carry out what they really want and
that is genocide of invalids. The entire Terri case was based not on
her ability but on the insurance running out and her not being a profit
any more.
All the diseases of the Rockefeller medical establishment are designed
to make multi billions of dollars before people die in order to glean
from them their last nickles. It is only after "treatment" has drained
all the insurance and personal assets are they allowed to die.
Treatments only last so long as the money keeps coming in.

That is what their "writers" are doing in being paid for shills of this "cropping" of the masses.
Did you ever wonder why is it seat belt laws are designed to keep
people alive and cigarettes are being outlawed as a health concern?

Yet they abort millions of children and have been quietly murdering invalids for years in not wanting to keep them alive.

That sounds like a dichotomy until you realize that people in auto
wrecks DIE and there is no profit in it just as cigarettes actually
keep people "healthy" in not catching colds and keeping their weights
down so they don't get diabetes and heart disease, so there is no
profit in that....and if smokers do get cancers they actually die
before any "treatment" can glean millions from them.

That is why you have to wear a seatbelt, so you can stay alive and your
crippled body can make billions for the Rockefeller medical cartel and
why cigarettes are being banned, because this cartel needs people sick
to make money.
The same is true for aborticide as it is a billion dollar industry in
cropping people so the elite can have resources and all those masses
will not join in revolution to the murdering of invalids so they will
not tax they system instead of putting money into it.

These people know all of this and it is a sadistic agenda meant to
sheer people like sheep and carve them up like poultry for profit.

Global Warming and Mercy Murder, there is no difference. All you have to do is follow the money and it all leads to one thing. Legal murdering of people and 21st century high tech slavery of 7 billion people.

Where is the call for this echoing for the world to throw off these robber barons in E Pluribus Unim.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Well, that's interesting, LC.

Well, that's interesting, LC. I'm just trying to figure out the relationship to trees. <shrugs shoulders>

BTW, it looks like you should have included either quotation marks or source attribution for the "cut and paste" portion of your comment. If you've copied it from your own writings, please excuse the interruption.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria

I don't know what happened, b

I don't know what happened, but that "Lithium, anyone?" was supposed to go here.  Sorry for the misplaced comment.

media drum roll please....

As time raced by attempting desperately to compete with spinning electric meters at eco-unfriendly environs necessary for the too, too many live earth concerts, fun-seeking, middle-class youths that could afford a ticket jumped up and down to amuse Madonna while Macy stunned packed stadiums and lazy-boy enviromotionalists throughout the "civilized" world with a Darfur fashion statement.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the depths of Africa and other disease-ridden parts of the world where no media camera dared tread yesterday, one poor child died every 30 seconds that day from something completely preventable - Malaria.  This gruesome scenario played out twice a minute far from oversized stages of live earth shows was brought to the world by the media-championed, albeit junk science concerning DDT from the mother of all eco-nuts and inspiration to Algore, Rachel Carson.

But what was really important to our self-described, compassionate, world-shaping demedia yesterday?  That deliriously wealthy show biz kids with chiseled features and perfect pecs got to make yet another movie about themselves.........in-between backstage snacks of sushi, washed down with trendy drinks prepared with pedal-powered blenders (of course):

While de poor people sleepin'
Wit' de shade on de light
While de poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night....

Good tune, should have been t

Good tune, should have been the theme song for this event.

I'd nominate this Ten Years

I'd nominate this Ten Years After classic instead (no-doubt showing my age!).
JMR

I watched a lot of some of th

I watched a lot of some of this late last night switching between Bravo and NBC.

The absolutely empty-headed people that were questioned during singers were what was amazing to me.

Hollywood is really La-La Land...they proved it last night every single time they opened mouth and inserted both feet.

The song Oh Mercy Mercy Me by the way (if that is the correct title) was butchered with the most audacious unrealistic words I have ever heard...somebody should sue.....anybody ...

I think it was Cameron Diaz who really blew me away with how she can relate now to other people who really understand the AGW terms now when talking to each other...they don't have to go bloppidy blop blop blop anymore they can really speak to each other now and know the terms....(paraphrasing somewhat here...lol)

....whole thing was surreal....I saw enough to make me sick.

I watched a total of 30 secon

I watched a total of 30 seconds of it last night.

I tuned in when they had their little info-video showing a woman buying a

container of milk. The grocer places the milk in a plastic bag and she slaps

him.

Moral of story: Don't use a plastic bag if you don't need one.

Absolute stupidity!

Hi Mica....I saw that too.The

Hi Mica....

I saw that too.

The greenies forced plastic on us and now it's back to paper...no...wait a minute...it was bring your own burlap type bag...or by one from the shop keeper.

That was one of the most pathetic spots I have ever seen.

....although Anne Curry was all ga-ga over it...then again what wasn't she ga-ga over?

Talk about needing a barf-bag....

LOL!

Use paper bags! Kill a tree!S

Use paper bags! Kill a tree!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Ruth has them double plastic

Ruth has them double plastic bag everything that can leak (chicken, etc.).  Paper bags help fruit to ripen and if you double bag icecream it won't melt before you get home.  They're both good.  Love them bags.

BT, you better stop watching

BT, you better stop watching that stuff...your gonna lose IQ points watching that:-)

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

bass...LMAO.......Too Late to

bass...

LMAO...

....Too Late to Turn Back Now....

LOLSave a SeAL, club a libera

LOL

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Al's GloBULL Warming mob.

If it is going to require the planting of 100,000 trees to offset the gas blown out by the GloBULL Warming mob, then Al has two choices:

1) Keep his trap shut for the next eighteen months or so, or,

2) Get busy planting trees.

Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.

I didn't watch any of it.  I

I didn't watch any of it.  I was already feeling sick to my stomach yesterday and didn't want to add to my misery.

 “If you want to save the

 “If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down.”  Wouldn't that leave carbon footprints all over the place?

Lithium anyone?

Lithium anyone?