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.
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And Sir Paul’s scientific creds are what exactly?
Does he want a Revolution? Time to get back in the USSR. With a little help from his friends, he might find reality over logical fallacies.
Bob Tisdale says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:05 am
Hmm. I’m not sure how an oil spill can convince me that global warming from anthropogenic greenhouse gases exists beyond a token effect on land surface temperatures. An oil spill is an environmental catastrophe, but, in and of itself, it has nothing to do with anthropogenic global warming.
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I think there is tendency to lump all environmental issues together under the general category of “look what the stupid humans are doing now to destroy the planet.” And specifically related to Mr. McCartney’s statement, while it was unfortunate to bring up the holocaust in relationship to AGW skepticism, I think the underlying psychological dynamic for SOME, but not all AGW “warmist” and skeptic alike, is similar to a doctrine of faith rather than science, in that no matter what the evidence is or appears to be, they will not change their belief patterns.
“Just how is he trying to link a technical failure a mile underwater to anything climate-related?”
For the members of the liberal hive-mind, feeeeelings replace the silly constraints of physical reality.
Sir Paul McCartney decries the use of fossil fuels and, yet, he sure has a lot of stuff.
hmm, according to sir paul, the gulf spill means that AGW is real. hmmm, does. not. compute.
People that have little to do, worry too much.
This is called Godwin’s law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I wonder how Sir Paul travels around the world?
Paul: stay away from the brown acid, buddy.
“Some people don’t believe in climate warning — like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”
warning or warming?
I think the point, and Obama is also going this way, is that we wouldn’t be looking for oil a mile under the Gulf if we weren’t burning way too much oil and increasing CO2 and causing global warming. It is then further obvious that we wouldn’t be looking for oil a mile under the ocean surface if we weren’t running out of oil everywhere else. The dangers of deep-water drilling have also obviously been grossly understated by the evil oil industry (because otherwise we’d all be engineers and fully understand how difficult this might be). Since we are therefore obviously running out of oil and nobody had previously mentioned that drilling over a mile deep is potentially difficult and dangerous, clean, alternative energy sources must be pursued without question.
The logic only falls apart if we have other oil sources relatively readily available that weren’t, for whatever reason, actively being pursued.
How many people want to see Sir Paul’s next world concert tour by entirely powered by alternative energy?
Of course McCartney is green – he can afford it.
Years of drugs talking
Spoiled, conformist, a dimwit with pretensions of thoughtfulness.
Boy, he’s sure right! It is so good that we have disasters like this because otherwise we wouldn’t know how bad we are being and we don’t have to imagine the disasters in the future that we’re imaging could happen but won’t.
If only something worse would happen to convince us!! I bet we’d all be convinced if we got a giant solar sunstorm that would knock out all of our electronics and civilization as we know it would cease to exist and millions of people would starve to death! Then we’d learn! Boy, if only something like that would happen!
So I didn’t notice his name on the list of approved accredited properly credentialled Climatologers.
So who gives a rip about what he says; well about anything; maybe he can comment on teeny bopper singing.
And he’s also met The President; or maybe it is that The President has met Paul McCartney. Well I haven’t met either of them; and I don’t think my life is any the worse for having missed those experiences.
So “”” “But the facts indicate that there’s something going on and we’ve got to be aware of it. “””
Such insight; from one of the great chroniclers of our times; do let us know Sir Paul, when you figure out just what the hell it is.
“…– the rest of the British public can go hang themselves for spilling oil.”
But I wasn’t even there, honest Guv.
McCartney generated a larger carbon footprint with his Lexus in one day, than most people do in cars in their entire lifetime.
http://www2.wjbf.com/entertainment/2008/may/14/-jbf_2008_05_14_0033-ar-222066/
I have to agree with Codetech. Anyway, look, he’s a great songwriter and performer, and he’s entitled to his opinions. But they’re just his opinions, and matter not in the least. Why get so wound up over someone putting their foot in their mouth? It’s not like it’s the first time he’s done it…
Perhaps he should pop up to Brian May’s house and have a chat with him on the subject. He’d be amazed at the opinions of *Dr.* Brian May.
Presumably Sir Paul will be walking on water to his next concert rather than taking a polluting co2 spewing plane?
tonyb
It was only at the beginning of June that he couldn’t remember the words of his old songs:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Sir-Paul-McCartney-Admits-He-Cannot-Remember-All-His-Songs-As-There-Are-Too-Many/Article/201006115642050?f=rss
How does this one go, Sir Paul?
When I get older, losing my mind, in a couple of weeks from now…da-da da-da-dah…
I get a real kick out of the lefties that tell me we should shut down oil drilling in the gulf and move to wind/solar power. Say what? Seriously.. how does that conversion work?! Maybe theres a windmill that spits out gasoline that I didn’t know about !?
ad Hominem comment: what else is to be expected of a Liverpudlian who is a vegan to boot.
Paul McCartney is a former, now rather wrinkled, pop-singer. I have absolutely no idea why he should have been given a knighthood, because, apart from pop-songs, he’s done nothing much else. He is also from Liverpool (a Scouser). They seem, at least in my experience, to have a tendency to mouth off too much. His support for Obama (something of a con-artist) is, to me, the support from one socialist to another. I really don’t know why you even troubled to report him; bit of a waste of space, really.
I can’t grasp the logic.
“I think the point, and Obama is also going this way, is that we wouldn’t be looking for oil a mile under the Gulf if we weren’t burning way too much oil and increasing CO2 and causing global warming. ” Mike86
A person can logically argue that our dependence on petroleum has lead to the gulf spill, but I cannot accept the tie in to “climate warming”. If you want to argue that deep water drilling has unacceptable risks relative to other pursuits by mankind I’ll disagree, but the argument is logical.
Obamaco are the group that are prohibiting land based oil exploitation within the USA. I’m not suggesting that this could displace off shore drilling. I understand that this particular oil field was accessible from shallow waters, but Govt. regulations forced them into deep water.