Yesterday, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David just finished off a 12-campus tour on a biodiesel bus to raise awareness about global warming by engaging college students on the topic. The tour started earlier this month at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and ended on Earth Day at at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. The WaPo has quips from their tour blog here or you can read the “Touring America With Laurie David and Sheryl Crow by Bio-Diesel Bus” Blog here.

AP News reported on the tour as well… here’s a few quips:

“It’s great to go out and play music, and I love that, too. And it’s also nice to make money. But this is not that,” Crow said Sunday in an interview. “This is a whole bunch of people dedicating their time, their lives, working for free, for a mission. And it is the most important mission”…

David said “federal inaction is no longer acceptable” and is pressing for Congress to enact a bill to impose mandatory curbs on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases within two years. She predicted the 2008 election would revolve around three main issues: jobs, terrorism and temperature.

“I just feel like if this isn’t addressed by this administration, if this administration isn’t hearing this message loud and clear, then I feel like there’s an irresponsibility,” Crow said.

The two women planned to meet with House Energy Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Monday.

Crow and David were interviewed before appearing at the tour’s last show at George Washington University with Grammy-winning musicians Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Carole King.

Also speaking at the concert was David’s husband, Larry, a comedian and producer best known as co-creator of the TV show “Seinfeld,” and environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Hurricane Katrina is just a taste of what’s to come if we don’t stop global warming,” Kennedy told some 2,000 people who turned out for the songs and speeches.

Crow opened with “A Change Would Do You Good” and did a spirited duet with King on “I Feel The Earth Move.” McGraw and Hill also performed.

Crow and David unsuccessfully tried to change the thinking of Karl Rove, President Bush’s top adviser, at a correspondents’ dinner Saturday night. “I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then,” David said the interview.

Crow dedicated the closing number of the concert, sang by all the performers, to Rove, wryly calling him her “new friend.” The title: “We Can Work It Out,” written and made famous by The Beatles.

In the blogosphere, the usual flat-earth right wingers are hyping their sanctimonious denial, decrying the tour. It’s their planet too. I just can’t grasp why some people don’t get how important this is. I spent the weekend driving the coast of California from Los Angeles to Santa Cruz. What struck as we drove along the Pacific Coast Highway from Morro Bay to Monteray Bay on Saturday is how critical this mission really is. I don’t think there’s a person on the planet who wouldn’t be taken in by the incredible beauty and want to see that preserved. Yet, as NewsHounds points out, flat-earthers would rather joke about people trying to make a difference than get involved themselves.

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