{"id":1380,"date":"2009-09-15T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/blogNew\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:37:24","slug":"world-celebrities-sing-to-stop-global-warming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"World Celebrities Sing To Stop Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehimalayantimes.com\/fullNews.php?headline=World+celebrities+sing+to+stop+global+warming&amp;NewsID=33403\">http:\/\/www.thehimalayantimes.com\/fullNews.php?headline=World+celebrities+sing+to+stop+global+warming&amp;NewsID=33403<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GENEVA: British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.The song entitled &#8220;Beds&#8217;r Burning&#8221;, which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s, can be downloaded from the Internet for free and will be presented to the public at a launch in Paris on October 1.&#8221;If we do not stop the (greenhouse gas) emissions today, global warming will be still be with us in 40 to 50 years,&#8221; warned Walter Fust, director of the Forum, at a press conference in Geneva.The media campaign featuring the song is aimed at putting pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.Some of the other popular artists who add their voices to the anti-global warming song include French &#8216;Piaf&#8217; actress Marion Cotillard, Senegalese star Youssou N&#8217;dour, Irish singer\/composer Bob Geldorf, Chinese singer Khalil Fong, and even a Nobel peace laureate, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.thehimalayantimes.com\/fullNews.php?headline=World+celebrities+sing+to+stop+global+warming&amp;NewsID=33403 GENEVA: British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}