The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore by Suzanne Fields

There's nothing like a celebrity sing-a-long to get the global warming juices boiling. Al Gore, the vice president who became a midway barker, has the greatest show on earth, maybe even the universe. He's offering a day of 'Live Earth' concerts during the summer that will include musical artists and 'thought leaders' such as Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dog and Enrique Iglesias. Hea-veee, as the kids used to say.
The carnival show will reach more than a million spectators with an additional 2 billion watching on television screens. Kevin Wall, who produced world tours for Madonna, is in charge and says he aims for coverage throughout the world, maybe even the solar system. 'Two billion sets of eyeballs,' he tells The Washington Post, 'and we'll hand the mike to Al Gore.'
The ex-veep is poised to take home one or maybe two Academy Awards for his documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This could put him in the league with Obama and Hillary. He says he's not running for president in '08, but that may be because he wants to be president of the Earth, or at least the Whole Earth Catalog. Who wants to spend a winter in New Hampshire talking about the heat somewhere else?

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