Low turn-out for Live Earth Jo-burg? Blame climate change
This, sent by a friend, is just a hoot:
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. 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." But critics have blamed poor publicity for the weak turn-out.
OK, so let me get this straight...the globe is warming, and that's causing it to get colder and snow in Johannesburg? Anyone care to offer a scientific explanation of how that phenomenon works?
I think it's just the curse of the Goreacle. Wherever he goes, it gets cold and snows, particularly where he's going to pontificate about climate change. Perhaps, since he was in DC this week, the curse affected Jo-Burg instead, since it's still part of his big concert extravaganza.
But it couldn't be that the low turn-out had to do with people not being especially interested in being hectored about their carbon footprint by a bunch of celebs who's energy consumption easily dwarfs that of most average folks. Nah!
UB40 - LIVE EARTH JOHANNESBURG OFFICIALS BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE FOR POOR TURN-OUT