Al Gore plans "Rock Against Global Warming" event with Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, AFI, more

10th Level Vice President, documentary filmmaker, environmentalist and former presidential contender Al Gore has organized a 24-hour concert series to take place on all seven continents with the aim of highlighting the dangers of global warming.

The event, called Live Earth, will feature 100 musicians on July 7th and aims to attract two billion viewers via the television, radio and internet. The concerts will be streamed live on MSN, Microsoft's information portal.

Gore explained:

In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people, We hope to jumpstart that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007.

The event has signed up many artists including Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, AFI, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi and many others. The concerts will take place in Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai, China; London, England; Kyoto, Japan; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a U.S. city that has yet to be determined, Wall said. Gore added that the campaign even plans to stage the first-ever rock concert on Antarctica. Proceeds from the concerts will fund initiatives by the Save Our Selves campaign.

Gore produced an Oscar-nominated documentary, An Inconvenient Truth and many of his ideas were further solidified by a recent report which featured the opinions of 2000 of the world's top climatic scientists - leaving little doubt in the risks that global warming presents.