Global Warming Blamed For Low Attendance at Live Earth's Johannesburg Concert

Global Warming Blamed For Low Attendance at Live Earth's Johannesburg Concert

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
July 8, 2007 - 21:11 ET

Honestly, folks, I had to read this one five times to believe my eyes, and strongly suggest that you remove all potables, flammables, and sharp objects from your proximity before proceeding any further.

Everybody ready?

Well, it turns out that one of the Live Earth concerts to draw attention to the planet’s imminent doom at the hands of the left’s most recent bogeyman global warming had very poor attendance due to – wait for it! – cold weather.

How great is that?

Yet that’s not the funniest part, as reported by Contactmusic.com Sunday (hysterical emphasis added):

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Officials at Live Earth Johannesburg have blamed the effects of climate change for poor audience attendance at Saturday's (07Jul07) South African event. Organiser John Langford believes extremely cold weather in the region - it snowed last week (ends06Jul07) for the first time in a quarter of a century - kept people away from the concert, which starred Joss Stone, UB40, Angelique Kidjo and Baaba Maal.

Imagine that. Global warming destroyed a concert to promote global warming awareness by – it really is too amazing to believe – making it snow for the first time in this part of the world in more than 25 years.

And, it snowed because the planet’s getting warmer! Is everybody following this?

While you ponder the astounding level of ignorance on display, the article continued:

Speaking before the event, Langford said, "We're expecting 10,000 here tonight. It's a bit chilly, and we've had a strange winter... is it climate change? We had snow in Jo'burg last week for the first time in 25 years."

What’s even more amazing is the number of concertgoers, promoters, and global warming alarmists that actually believe global warming is responsible for colder weather and abnormal snowstorms in regions that rarely see the white fluffy stuff.

Maybe even worse is the number of media representatives that are not only buying the insanity, but also promoting it on a daily basis.

When's it going to stop?

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

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I can see it now, baseball

July 8, 2007 - 21:24 ET by ckc1227

I can see it now, baseball games will no longer be postponed due to rain, it will be because of climate change, lol.

You might have added "lo

July 8, 2007 - 22:37 ET by saw the light

You might have added "lol" to the end of your post, but the reality is much scarier:

http://newsbusters.org/node/11267

"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." - Prime Minister Tony Blair

Noel all i can say is 'Ponder

July 8, 2007 - 21:29 ET by

Noel all i can say is 'Ponder the Maunder'

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

I will be a monkeys uncle, I

July 8, 2007 - 21:31 ET by general company

I will be a monkeys uncle, I had it all wrong, I thought they wanted to prevent global warming. When in fact they want global warming, well in that case Im for it.

Loved it. Sorry I have to go

July 8, 2007 - 21:35 ET by danbo

Loved it. Sorry I have to go get a beer out of the oven.

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

Wait a minute; I couldn't b

July 8, 2007 - 21:39 ET by motherbelt

Wait a minute; I couldn't believe it, but when I read the synopsis for the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" it said "Global warming triggers a new ice age."(emphasis mine)

So what's THAT all about? Personally, I think they don't have a clue; that's why they've glommed on to the term "climate change." Don't you know, the earth's climate has been the same for millenia, but now it's undergoing "change."

Go figure.

"Global warming triggers a ne

July 9, 2007 - 10:09 ET by taznar

"Global warming triggers a new ice age."

They explain it all in the movie. I actually enjoyed the movie, but I've always liked the catastrophe genre. Then again, I understand the difference between fact and fiction, therefore I can suspend disbelief for a movie and rejoin the real world when its over. Too many of the "Hollywood people" are still stuck in fiction mode and continue to suspend rational thought when dealing with the real world.

HATE it when that happens.

July 8, 2007 - 21:49 ET by dahliatravers

HATE it when that happens.

Hey! I posted a link to this

July 8, 2007 - 21:52 ET by QueenMum

Hey! I posted a link to this before you, Noel.

QueenMum Says:July 8, 2007 - 17:34

And the hits just keep on comin'.

Low Joburg turnout due to poor publicity - not cold temperatures. LOL

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

Anyone think that maybe the b

July 8, 2007 - 21:56 ET by Semperright

Anyone think that maybe the bands booked just suck and no one wants to see them.

No Soup For You

semperright again

July 9, 2007 - 06:15 ET by Six String Spiff

Ummm YES!

All of those 'artists' suck. I used to have respect for John Meyer (sp?) but it turns out he is just a weenie too. Dave Mathews Band has a ton of potential, bet they just can't get past the 'Woe is Me' aspect. Also, DMB is THE Soccer mom "look I like POP music still.." band. Way to go Algore... Putz

I'd like to know the figures that were raised for this climate 'crisis'. Seems like it back fired right in his fat face. It annoys me to NO END that this blithering blow-hard has latched on to AGW. It's ok though. he's a liberal and liberals NEVER EVER have to take responsibility for what they say/do. Way to go MSSM.

Al Gore needs to go back to m

July 9, 2007 - 11:01 ET by kathleenirish

Al Gore needs to go back to mending fences between the Vulcans and Romulans, send him to Space. That guy is a freak of nature. The earth might commit suicide on its own if it has to listen to these pompous idiots anymore.

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

They should'a booked Creede

July 8, 2007 - 21:59 ET by Jerry

They should'a booked Creedence Clearwater Reviv-AL.

"I wanna know.. have you ever seen the snow... coming down on a globally warmed day?"

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).

The recent comments saidThey

July 8, 2007 - 22:03 ET by

The recent comments said

They should's booked Creed

imagine my delight to find CCR

Thanks bot.......that brought

July 8, 2007 - 22:35 ET by bigtimer

Thanks bot...

....that brought back memories...

I wanna know....have you ever seen the rain...coming down...on a sunny day?

I too loved CCR...still do.

have you ever seen the rain..

July 8, 2007 - 22:38 ET by

have you ever seen the rain...coming down...on a sunny day?

sure that's when the rainbows are out

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

Well reply that brought a HU

July 8, 2007 - 22:45 ET by bigtimer

Well reply that brought a HUGE smile across my face... ; )

Goodgoodnight BT“The way to

July 8, 2007 - 22:48 ET by

Good

goodnight BT

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

You have a good one...plus a

July 8, 2007 - 22:50 ET by bigtimer

You have a good one...plus a good week ahead.

I'm outta here pretty quick too...

This push was sparked in pa

July 8, 2007 - 22:18 ET by jpm100

This push was sparked in part by Al's Movie, but it was also sparked by a late start to Winter. But as it turned out, Winter was just as late leaving if not more. It's generally been a cool year so far overall. So despite that fact they pushed uber-hard on Global Warming Alarmism pointing to whatever they could as Signs.

Fate has a good sense of humor and more than one of Al's events have been snowed out.

Imagine the endless stream of crap we'd hear if we had a warmer than normal year this year.

Eventually Al's bad luck will run out and he'll have some good luck. We will have a warm year. Watch out for how we'll be reminded of that every 5 seconds with hourly temperature updates, a daily deathtoll, and all the bells and whistles. All this to panic politicians into passing bad legislation.

When's it going to stop?When

July 8, 2007 - 22:27 ET by Dave R

When's it going to stop?

When the lefties have ridden the GW horse into the ground and can no-longer use it as a tool for forcing their socialist beliefs on the rest of the world, that's when. They were also intent on putting this country in the economic crapper along the way, which is their only real goal in all this, anyway.

It appears they thought they had found the perfect vehicle for their little scheme. Problem was, however, they failed to effectively silence the opposition, not that they didn't try.

Remember, they also tried riding the poverty-guilt wave to ultimate power prior to manufacturing the GW farce. That didn't work for them, either. They will, however, conjure up a new boogeyman somewhere down the road.

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

Global Warming

July 8, 2007 - 22:49 ET by pocomoco

If anyone ever thought that God did not have a sense of humor - think again!

South Africa is in the southe

July 8, 2007 - 22:52 ET by Ron was RIGHT

South Africa is in the southern hemisphere so they are right in the middle of their winter. I think most of the journalist in this country will not mention that to make it seem like "The sky is falling! Its snowing in July!" It would be like it snowing in January up here. Not even much of a news story.

Also the story mentions that it hasn't snowed in 25 years. It seems that global warming actually existed in South Africa 25 years ago then vanished for 25 years and has now made its triumphant return. Its like when we had all those hurricanes in 2005, everyone said it was global warming. Then in 2006 there were almost none. Logic would tell you that if global warming causes hurricanes then it would always cause them. But thats not how it goes. It just proves that the rabid enviromentalists are just leftist that do what all leftists do.

Step one: Form conclusion

Step two: Try and find anecdotal evidence to support said conclusion

Step three: Immediately dismiss all evidence that does not support conclusion and do everything in your power to distroy the careers and reputations of any who oppose your conclusion.

Step four: Use your allies in the press to repeat the conclusion over and over until it becomes the conventional wisdom.

Step five: Once said conclusion becomes conventional wisdom, use the power of government to take away the rights and freedoms of citizens.

This is the liberal issue life cycle.

It would be like it snowing i

July 8, 2007 - 22:54 ET by

It would be like it snowing in January up here

yeah in Miami

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

It snowed in Miami in on Janu

July 8, 2007 - 22:59 ET by Ron was RIGHT

It snowed in Miami in on January 19, 1977. Looks like global warming made a brief appearance in Miami 30 years ago. Was the world coming to an end in 1977? Well Jimmy Carter was running the show, so yea, I guess it was.

plus with Jimma we only had 1

July 8, 2007 - 23:06 ET by

plus with Jimma we only had 10 years of oil left and were destined to freeze to death

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

Global Warming says it's gonna SNOW

July 9, 2007 - 12:23 ET by LarryH

GOREbal Warming experts claim that climate change leads to atmospheric instability - so anythin' can happen: snow is due to warmth. What they don't disclose is that the GW models must necessarily address quite long-term phenomena. No short term phenomena can possibly be in the models, because the computer calculation time becomes astronomical. So the connection between temperature rise and "instability" is even MORE uncertain than the connection between GW-model-predictions and their doomsday claims.

Global warming does, indeed, lead to an increase in the snow-job claims we must endure.

I don't understand why the p

July 8, 2007 - 23:43 ET by Galvanic

I don't understand why the posts here call Global Warming into question when it snows in South Africa. Let me lay it out for you again:

1. Prince Albert has declared that there is consenus on the science, and that means the debate is over.

2. I repeat: THE DEBATE IS OVER!

3. That means there is no meaningful purpose served by pointing to contrary evidence, because . . .

4. I repeat: THE DEBATE IS OVER!

5. So, fa-getta-bout-it. Let's have some more concerts. ;-)

I don't like to listen to the

July 9, 2007 - 11:19 ET by kathleenirish

I don't like to listen to the Goracle too much because it causes severe abdominal pain but I believe he has been using the more propaganda-friendly and generalized term of "climate change" replacing his traditional "global warming" so as to be able to weasel out of real science and debate more easily. What a piece of work this fraud is!

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

A Convenient Lie

July 9, 2007 - 00:32 ET by Parker1227

But its a very convenient lie from some points of view. It means all us non-progressive types must give up the selfish capitalism and consumerism, and meat eating, and all that evil exploitation of the earth (called economic growth and job creation).

But for all you good folks on on the Eastern seaboard who get your electricity from wicked coal power, sorry, but you're going to have to freeze during the winter because nuclear is out of the question and the Kennedys don't want windmills in their back yard.

Or, just maybe, it's becaus

July 9, 2007 - 09:40 ET by AtillaKahuna

Or, just maybe, it's because they held a CONCERT (yes, tickets needed to be purchased) in an area of the world with an annual personal income of just under the total of the change in your living room sofa.

Maybe? Hmmmm?

There are persons...who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy...will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice;...the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both.

Thomas Paine, Dec. 23, 1776