Big Al is hoping that the people of America demand he become president to save us from the ecoboogeyman of his creation, thereby allowing him to skip those messy primaries. Unfortunately as noted in the above column, he's hitched his wagon to a bunch of phony hollywoood celebrities that each have larger carbon footprints than does Dow Chemical. The average American will see the hypocrisy of someone like Al and Leonardo claiming to believe we are in a crisis while burning more carbon-based energy in their mansions than twenty US households.

Diggs, Colorado Springs, CO

Looks like the "Bushies" are out tonight! Wherever the truth is; there they will be fighting it to the death. Too stupid to realize that the truth cannot be defeated! They snarl and bite while screaming "It's a lie for profit!". Meanwhile their master destroys nations after blatant accusations of those nations prove false! The hypocracy is staggering and so obvious that it could confound Soloman himself. The pure idiocy and desparation of the "right wing blowhards" has revealed itself as a scab on their ass, and his name is George W. Bush!

Chip Lewis, Portland, Oregon

I don't know why so many bloggers all over are so judgemental on Gore and caste such intense aspersions on his efforts. But he is a product of the sixties and seventies generation and in that he is sincere about enviromental issues. How can improving your garden have any down side?
Being human he has mixed this up with his political persona and probably his asperations for public office. But he is offering us awareness of a growing problem as we progressively overpopulate our earth. Anyone who has taken a beginning course in college chemistry and biology or gone camping can see the problem without question. In ways Gore sold out to the establishment before by not being an activist, simply to hold political office. This should tell us something about wasted opportunities and the failure of our government to do anything really productive.

Brian Stewart, los angeles,

IT'S JAZZY, POLITICALLY CORRECT, ROCK STAR, PSUEDO-SCIENCE...PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

Climate change occurs naturally, as it has for millions of years in the past. It will also occur naturally for millions of years into the future! ! !

Droughts, famines, heat waves, ice ages, dust bowl eras...are all parts of our relatively RECENT history!
It's been that way...it will continue to be that way!!!

It's good to reduce pollution in the air...but climate changes will occur regardless of what we do.

The Earth warms...The Earth cools down! Al Gore should go and cool down!

Scaring people into believing that "The End of the World is at hand! Repent ...and pay me lots of money!!!"...ranks right up there...sorry, I meant..
" right down there"...with prostitution, as one of the World's oldest professions.

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA

Scientific consensus is meaningless if it doesn't comport with the truth. There was a scientific consensus 80 years ago that the continents were immobile. Back then you would have been a "denier" of the "proven" science of static continents if you supported the view that they moved. But guess what, the scientific consensus was meaningless because it was flat out wrong. Al Gore doesn't seem to understand how science really works. He's talking like a politician, not a scientist. He says we have to convince people to go along with the consensus, as if the so-called consensus is some sort of holy revelation ordained by God. It's not. The consensus, to the extent it exists, is an opinion held by fallible human beings. It's no more inviolable than the opinion that continents don't move. If the facts are wrong it's a pointless consensus. Plenty of us don't believe that the evidence presented thus far sufficiently proves the case AGWers are attempting to make. It's that simple.

kcom, Atlanta, USA

Even if you only tell one person you change consciousness.

Think how these simultaneous Live Earth concerts to millions have changed consciousness now and in future generations.

So Be It.

Rich Lampe, Tenino, WA

Thank God for Al Gore!
His actions on the pressing needs of environmental
action will drawf any political concerns.

Linda Shaddock, Texarkana, TX

Gee Al,
I didn't see one single fluorescent stage light only those energy wasting incandescent bulbs. And all the rock stars...jetting to the concert...then the limos toget them to the site.
Do as I say, not as I do,huh Al?

John Urban, Howard Beach, NY

Someone has to tell them the truth, after all there's millions spent by the poluters every year to discredit the truth. I'd rather Al Gore became a billionaire by saving the planet than some oil tycoon stayed a billionaire by destroying it.

Jo Jo was wrong, Portsmouth, Englant

Thanks Al. I guess we the public are just so stupid that we need really smart people like you to spend the next 3 years telling us we are stupid for not supporting your latest investment scam, carbon credits. Boy I guess making you richer and everyone else paying more so you can get richer makes sense.

Jo Jo is Right, Cincinnati, USA

Hmmm, he's been saying we only have 10 years left to do something for 2 years. Shouldn't he be saying 8 years now? Or does get so used to reciting his junk science that he forgets about basic counting?

And did they buy the "offsets" for the concerts from his investment company? If so, Gore will be really green with all the money he's generating. Other than that, he just keeps spewing CO2 flying all over the place. I'll make a pledge that I won't let my carbon footprint for my life grow larger than that of Al Gore's. Heck, I couldn't afford to produce as much CO2 as he happily does on his preaching tours.

Erick, Knoxville,