This morning while flipping back and forth between “The Empire Strikes Back” and reruns of “The Man Show,” I had the unfortunate experience of stopping on the “Live Earth” broadcast on the Sundance Channel.

When will Algore go away? Now he’s showing up in hologram form.

Plenty of other people are balking at the hypocrisy of this whole concert-to-build-awareness thing (as if the world isn’t aware of the so-called threat of global warming), so I won’t go on and on about that, except to say so much of these concerts are pandering, feel good nonsense.

What a joke. Algore could have saved a lot of energy by making another Power Point presentation.

But let’s look at the “pledge” folks attending the concerts are being asked to make. There’s seven points:

1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth.

Hmph. Too bad not even a Democratic president could get this through the Senate. This all sounds nice, but it won’t do anything. The next wave of pollution is not going to come from developed countries. In fact, those countries are the ones doing the most to clean up, whether they’ve signed a lame, unenforceable treaty or not.

The most pollution in the next 50 or so years is going to come from developing countries — such as India and China — and Gore still wants to let them off the hook. If we’re serious about cutting emissions, we’ve got to address the developing world. The reason the greenies won’t is because it would cripple their economies (hmmm, where have we heard this before?), underscoring a point the other side continues to make (we should note, that Gore let the developing world off the hook on buying tickets for the concerts, while charging Europeans and Americans).

2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO₂ pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become ‘carbon neutral.’

Oh, you mean the way Algore does? Or by just halting our conversion of oxygen? Carbon offsets are a joke — it’s a way for rich politicians and celebrities to feel OK about their SUVs, massive mansions and private jet rides. If this is really a crisis, why not ask everyone to sacrifice for real?

3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO_2.

That sounds nice, as long as you’ll lift the moratorium on building clean power plants, such as nuclear. And what do we do with the stored carbon? Try to ship it to Nevada? What will the greens do when the government wants to move it across country to bury it deep into the ground? Yeah, you can guess.

4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation.

This one’s funny. On the Live Earth Web site, the group offers tips for saving the planet, such as using an e-bike instead of your car. An e-bike is a bike with an electric motor you can switch on when rolling up a hill.

Where exactly to we get one of these bikes with an electric motor? How much do they cost? And where do I plug it safely, knowing the power generating plant is storing its emissions on site? What a bunch of BS.

5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal.

I’m actually OK with this one. But the focus is going to be on ethanol, which actually uses more oil-based gas to produce than it saves. If they were serious, they would fight for a Manhattan Project-type effort to get us off of oil. But that might actually take serious effort, and dude, Dave Mathews just got on stage. Pass the doobie.

6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests.

Yay! Trees! I’m gonna go plant a ficus right now, to show that I’m all about saving the world and to offset the third-world’s raping of their natural resources!

Here’s a fun factoid — there’s more forestry in the U.S. now than there was in 1776. Why? Cause we put out wildfires and force logging companies to replace them. What’s the developing world doing while we let them off the hook?

7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.

Hmm… I wonder whom that would be? Is Algore going to run now? (Please, Al, run. Please!)

One last thing, the umbrella group sponsoring this whole green splooge fest is S.O.S. — Save Our Selves. Hey, Algore, ourselves is ONE word. No wonder so many idiots follow this guy.