A convenient concert: Gore planning multi-city LiveAid-style global warming fundraiser

Could former Vice President Al Gore's next stop be not the White House but a concert simultaneously held in your city--and others worldwide -- for Global Climate Change?

According to a Daily Kos progressive-political-blog diary entry by regular contributor "rook", who appears to be based in Nashville, a "source inside the Gore family home in Nashville" says that Gore is organizing a simultaneous concert to build awareness and raise money to combat global warming, in the style of the "Live Aid" AIDS- and hunger-fundriasing concerts, with "some of the world’s biggest music acts performing on the same night in cities around the world."

Besides planning a tour for his new book, The Assault on Reason, Gore has been laying low of late, politely declining repeated entreaties for him to run for President again in 2008, training 1000 Climate Project volunteers to give his climate-crisis presentation featured in the movie An Inconvenient Truth. --Raines Cohen