Live Earth [1] is underway, working its way around the time zones of the world. In case you've been away on vacation to Mars, Live Earth is a worldwide concert to promote awareness of the looming climate crisis.

Here's the media coverage/broadcast schedule overview [2]. NBC will have a three-hour prime-time special [3] from 8PM to 11PM tonight. XM Radio [4] has live, 'round-the-globe 'round-the-clock coverage of "every note from every stage". Here's the artist lineup [5]. MSN is streaming it live [6] over the internets. XM 40 Deep Tracks has running commentary and channel guides.

The idea isn't to raise money for carbon credits or to end global warming overnight or anything like that. It's to raise awareness of the problem and the solutions [7], and to ignite a worldwide political movement to do something about it. Here is the call to action [8] and the seven point pledge, and here's how to answer the call [9].

The 27% Dead Enders have been on a massive propaganda campaign to discredit the event, the promoters (especially Al Gore) and the participating artists. I'm not exactly clear on what their problem is, other than some pathological need to exhibit their incredible stupidity after having been proven catastrophically wrong about everything, day after day for six years and going now.

They have decided to be part of the problem instead of the solution on every issue from national security, civil rights, health care, to the environment. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant, and boring. It would be funny if it weren't for the damage they're causing.

The thing I really don't get is that whether you believe human activity is causing global warming or not, the benefits of reducing its effects should be obvious. It's good stewardship of the earth and our natural resources to reduce, reuse, and recycle. It's good business to invest in pollution control, alternative energy, and renewable energy sources, not to mention good foreign and national security policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. What's so hard to understand about that? Why do they hate America?

For everyone else who cares about the planet, national security, our economy, jobs, and the air we breathe, sign the pledge [10]!

"Political will is a renewable resource." Al Gore

UPDATE: Live blogging at Left of the Dial [11]...

UPDATE: Joe Lance, too [12]...