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Jeez! A few ill-informed, unscientific rock stars says 'Big Al' is the King! The whole global warming scam, I believe, raises serious issues about the way science functions in the real world, about the political bias of scientists, about censorship and intimidation within the scientific community, about the routine practice of scientists drawing false or inflated conclusions from ambiguous or uncertain data, about the manifest failure of the peer review process, about the extraordinary unwillingness of scientists who have invested time and reputation in a particular theory to consider evidence that directly contradicts it and about the elevation of speculation (models) to the level of solid data.

''You can call me Dom''...haha, you genius. x

I was wrong: comedy and music can co-exist together int he same time and space, as anybody who witnessed Madonna's guitar playing at Live Earth can now testify.

Hopefully this'll put the final nail in the coffin of telegigathons. Live Aid caught the public's imagination despite the difficulties in turning it into a smooth and exciting TV presentation because it was new and at least somebody was doing something. Now the format is old and tired and no longer captures the imagination, while still having all the same problems Live Aid had over 20 years ago.

Surely Al Gore, the man who once said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet," could've utilised global communications in more of a "setting a good example" kinda way than Popstars on Jets, and given the message a more effective medium to do its job than yet more of the bloated consumption that is stadium rock TV.

The cynicism was loud and even expressed a lot on the Jonathan Ross couch. When Madonna's got a carbon footprint 100 times bigger than the average Brit, the cynicism is justified.

Although it could be argued Live Earth was huge success because a lot of popstars had their awareness raised that they're a shower of hypocrites who need to shut their mouths and do some serious thinking about their own culpability.

And you can tell 'em I said so!

Hi Everyone,

I know live earth is important to make everyone aware of global warming etc but why a concert? People will just listen to the acts and not care about the bigger picture and aren't we just adding to the pollution i.e. more electricity for the bands, noise pollution (not saying the bands aren't good coz they are), more rubbish and travel to and from the arena on private jets and so on.

I do love concerts and it is a great idea to get the msg across but do people listen to the underlying cause?

Sorry to be a massive party pooper but its true!

loving your work, loving the show. Just one complaint, I cant get the song out of my head, and the only lyrics I know are "you can call me Al." Thanks for that.

Dom,

You look so harmless and sweet in the first photo and in the second one you look so menacing! What's going on?

"I turned out it could?" :o)

Blimey, judging by that picture Al's going to have to save the world from the evil genius with island submarine base and satellite laser system, Dom Blowfeld.

When you say Al's organising it all, what exactly is Harvey Goldsmith doing, then?

I'm not sure Spinal Tap would appreciate Folkface trespassing on their satirical territory, especially as Guest, McKean and Shearer have already done folk in "A Mighty Wind."

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