McCartney, in Interview, Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers
Sir Paul McCartney just can’t let it be.
The former Beatle predicted in an interview that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might expedite a move to cleaner, renewable energy sources in the world.
Sir Paul could have stopped while he was ahead, but McCartney went on to compare people who don’t believe in global warming to “those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
“Sadly we need disasters like this to show people,” McCartney said in an exclusive interview with The Sun. “Some people don’t believe in climate warning — like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
McCartney continued, “But the facts indicate that there’s something going on and we’ve got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet — clean, renewable energy is for starters.”
McCartney also defended President Obama’s handling of the two-month-old crisis.
“I don’t accept the criticism of Barack over the oil spill,” said McCartney, who met the president for the first time earlier this month.
“I think he’s been great. It’s tough if we Brits whinge that he’s whingeing at us. Tough, then don’t spill oil.”
A representative for McCartney in London said the singer would have no further comment.
Read the rest of the story at FoxNews and the original interview at the Sun
It could’ve been hilarious if not for the seriousness of this debacle.
I mean only a class a a*ole of the self proclaimed co2 spewing famous green hobnobs can claim a horrid disaster is a good thing. Is that how they rationalize all the air milage?
We spew out so much evil co2 so that you, the poor sods, will come to realize just how bad it is when the world turns to shit. Trust us it’s a good thing really, I mean like the ice ages was an effect of global warming. :p
Shut up and sing!
McCartney, in Interview, Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers
this is getting surreal
Now I wish Heather Mills would beat him over the head with her wooden leg!
(actually she once accused him of doing that to her)
Why are celebrities like Paul McCartney, religious leaders, politicians and scientists so fond to warn mankind for upcoming disasters? Maybe they think we easier listen to them, and we become better willing followers (and rise easily public money)?
McCartney gives no substantive arguments why we should believe that global warming is going to cause the predicted disaster. Without his argumentation and sources we can’t have a discussion at all.
Now it is just his “belief”. Hallelujah! Nothing more, nothing less
Steve in SC: “Useful idiot”
No, in this case I think “Useless idiot” is more apropos. Doesn’t help anyone’s case.
Actually, this made me sad. I always liked Paul, of the 4 he seemed to be the practical one that was there to have fun.
Why are the ones who did the most drugs the same ones who believe “we” have damaged the planet so badly? Anyway, for someone who flies around the world in a pair of 747s, he sure has weird opinions.
He’s a real…
It’s a crying shame that “Entertainers” (everyone from old West Saloon Girls and Piano Players to modern day Opera Singers and Movie MegaStars) don’t have the common sense to keep their mouth shut once they leave the stage/studio. In general, they are really not very bright and their popularity suffers more and more with each uttered word they speak in public. They tend to show amazing and unique talent in one area and absolute stupidity in nearly everything else.
AGW, a faith based belief system and the trendy new “church” for the 21st century. I won’t be joining you Sir Paul for Sunday services but I might just play some of your music now and again.
If he digs any deeper, he might hit a high-pressure oilfield, and then be forced to denounce himself for making such a mess of things.
Poor Paul. He’s about ready for the Old Folk’s Home. We can put him in the room next to Jimmy Carter. Or better yet, lock them in the same room.
“We need disasters like this to show people.”
So, Sir Paul, I’d like to see you stand up in front of those thousands of Americans whose livelihoods have been devastaded by this oil spill, and explain that this is what we need – before flying back to your private island in your private jet. And of course, you won’t be worried about missing those vital BP dividend payments in your pension will you sir Paul – the rest of the British public can go hang themselves for spilling oil.
What an utterly moronic, self righteous, little snip he really is.
but…but he drives a Hybrid Car! (V-8 engine and a top speed of 155 mph)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355660,00.html
“An oil spill is an environmental catastrophe, but, in and of itself, it has nothing to do with anthropogenic global warming.”
Why, it’s easy! We wouldn’t have that oil spill murdering gazillions of fish and turtles and birds if we were serious about AGW and had switched to windmills instead, thereby murdering gazillions of birds and bats instead! Oh, wait…
And if we didn’t have this horrible addiction to oil me Mum wouldn’t have been killed in that traffic accident either, so BP is responsible for her death. Makes as much sense as what Sir Paul expounds.
Indeed, he said enough already. The logic here is impeccable “There was a holocaust. There is a blown well in the Gulf. Ergo. Global warming is real.”
Bruce Cobb says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:08 am
“A representative for McCartney in London said the singer would have no further comment.”
That is wise, as he’s already dug a deep enough hole for himself. Does he really think he can afford to p…. off millions of fans worldwide?
I don’t think he needs to worry any more about p***ing off his fans. I’ve always thought his early music, i.e. with the Beatles, was great, but after that……..remember Mull of Kintyre and that stupid Frog Song.
Alice Cooper was right but these songsters get ideas above their station – look at Bonio, oops, Bono – they need to stop playing god and learn to keep their mouths shut.
Idiot.
“Yesterday” man promulgating “Yesterday” theories and conceits.
Well, ya know AGW is what caused the quake in Haiti. Anything that powerful can easily take down an oil rig if it is in a bad mood. Or, er, uh, maybe it was the other way around. No matter! It’s all because Gaia is angry.
Since McCartney has major fortune & investments all over the world, maybe he should commit all that instead to “green energy.” You know, generate some green jobs, make a world saving commitment, demonstrate his confidence in O-ZerO’s plans, etc, etc.
Preaching is easy, investing is harder… Lord McCartney, where are your beatles to save the world?
I really liked his music, but music keys and emotional response, not rational. Anyone that gives any credence or validity to what a musician has to say is a twit. I feel like a twit for reading the whole damned article in the Sun. I know the Sun is full of twits for interviewing and publishing the idiot. And now I’m wondering about WUWT for reiterating what that twit had to say. Lol, no wonder we’re in the shape we’re in. My last sentence reminds me of a song in the only socially redeemable album ever compiled. Johnny Cash’s Patriot. This time of year, it is apropos for Americans.
Such deep, insightful comments by Mr McCartney. I never knew he was such an expert on these worldly topics. Yeah, right. I’d rather listen to Caroline Lucas’s rantings. On second thoughts, I’d rather have a beer.
Bob and Dave you just don’t get it. You see that extra CO2 in the atmosphere puts pressure on the ocean. It’s that extra pressure on the ocean that caused the well to rupture and spew all that evil oil into the ocean. See it is easy to link CO2 to this disaster.
Do I really need to add a sarc. tag?
Obviously smoked too many spliffs over the years.
“Sadly we need disasters like this to show people. Some people don’t believe in climate warming – like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust. – Head Librarian Paul
How does the gulf oil spill demonstrate that there is “climate warming” man made or otherwise?