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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So was the yellow submarine powered by nuclear or was it diesel-electric?
But if you really want to see some idiocy, read this AP article on how anthropogenic heavy metals, including silver, are poisoning whales, which will soon all be extinct because of it.
Given that the mass of the oceans is 1.38×10^18 metric tons, that normal silver concentration in seawater is 0.1 ppb and silver is selling at $18.69 a troy ounce, I want to know which moron dumped $83 trillion dollars worth of it in the ocean.
No, I’m pretty sure the real pollution threat is from the bong water this team of researchers was drinking.
Well I can tell you that no one here in the UK reveres him anymore! We all thought he was an idiot when he married Heather Mills – what rational thought, that was? He’s been dying his hair nut-brown for a while now, so perhaps the chemicals in the dye have seeped through to his brain. Moron.
Hey Vincent: “the rest of the British public can go hang themselves for spilling oil”. Eh? You do realise that BP is a joint UK/US company, don’t you? Perhaps not. Go away, look it up, then report back here on your findings, old chap. We’re all waiting, breathless.
Sadly we need disasters like McCartney to show people just how stupidly pretentious a few can become when they get rich.
At least he has an excuse for his stupidity. No real education, lots of weed et al to burn out whatever brain he may have started with, and keeping company with other idiots. What excuse do all the supposed scientists who are on the AGW bandwagon have? Well, now that I think about it, probably all the same ones!
“”Mike86 says:
June 25, 2010 at 9:09 am “”
We are obviously drilling out there because shallow water, where it’s safer, drilling is banned.
Let this be a lesson to the morons that think drilling a hundred miles off the coast, in deep water where it’s almost impossible to get down there, is somehow better than drilling in shallow water, where it’s a whole lot easier and faster to fix.
Banning our drilling will not stop the demand, will not stop other countries from drilling all over the world. The only thing it will hurt is us.
Paul is a vegetarian who won’t even wear leather. My guess is that he wears a lot of synthetic materials. You know, the ones that are made from petroleum products.
Paul, like many celebrities, just loves to wave his flag for the high profile causes that pull at your heart strings, but just like the rest of the celebrities along with him, he has absolutely no clue what the heck he is talking about.
Dr. Robert says:
June 25, 2010 at 6:51 am
Who knew he was such a goober?
We’re talking about the same guy who, when talking to the Fox Pregame guys before the Super Bowl, refused to touch a football because it was made out of pigskin.
“Goober” doesn’t even begin to describe him.
Gary Hladik says:
June 25, 2010 at 10:05 am
Sadly we need disasters like McCartney to show people just how stupidly pretentious a few can become when they get rich.
Quote of the week. I love it.
His yellow submarine must have shorted his oxygen.
For Obama, he could make a great drilling engineer. He is smart.
Paul, shut up and eat your broccoli. It will keep your mouth busy so you don’t make a damn fool of yourself. You know, the Stones were always smarter than these guys anyway. Apparently Jagger is a good squash player too.
“A representative for McCartney in London said the singer would have no further comment.”
Too bad the representative didn’t say that before McCartney opened his pie hole in the first place.
To me this is just more proof that the mainstream media (which is where the average person, including celebrities, obtain most of their information on topics such as climate change) have abdicated their responsibility to educate the public. People are simply not getting a balanced view of the science and all of its uncertainties and the public is being conditioned to assume that global warming is, at least in part, responsible for all environmental catastrophes, even earthquakes.
It’s amazing how little has changed in media reporting on climate change, particularly in North America, since Climategate.
– Dave
Scott,
Things are even worse than that AGW (if it even exists) is also perfectly natural.
Entertainers are such self-centered idiots – their egos never cease to amaze me.
Stephen Wilde says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:23 am
The main error made by BP was to employ Americans to work on the rig for them
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Stephen you got it wrong, it was BP management that insisted on drilling with unsafe practices. The management that new nothing of the technicalities insisted on drilling when the roughnecks said it was not safe, they had big bonus’s in thier minds and it killed people, they should be charged !!
Elderly guitar strummer wants job. Expert on logic, spouse seeking, manmade disasters and global warming. Anything legal considered.
Silence is the wisdom of fools.
John was the “smart” Beatle
George was the quiet Beatle
Ringo was the goofy beatle
Paul was the cute, stoopid Beetle!
Elftone says:
June 25, 2010 at 9:31 am
“Why get so wound up over someone putting their foot in their mouth? ”
Its easy to explain why you should get wound up;
This is the way the CAGW’ers have been working all along. People read newspapers and magazines. They read this.It’s a part of the brainwashing. They dont go to the source of the data. Over time people tend to echo such statements just like parrots.
So it is a very sly and successful approach. Show pictures of Obama and a Beatle together. Or Bono. Or Sting. Have an interview.
You could say it is all about building a trademark. Authority. Concensus.
What they say in detail is of no importance. Repeat the Mantra.Again and again.
In the end its the truth. And you can make a Black-List of the deniers.
And you can make money!
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=168077
Paul who?
No one in their right mind wants or likes oil spill but lets put it into perspective.
Suite101
“….offshore oil production contributes only about 3% of the total global marine oil pollution while natural oil seeps add up to 45% of yearly oil pollution with the remaining 52% coming from “down the drain” oil pollution, petroleum transportation and industrial oil consumption.”
* Natural oil seeps off the coast of Alaska release about 100,000 gallons of oil a year into the marine environment.
* The rate of release of oil seeps off the coast of California is estimated to be nearly six million gallons of oil a year, with Coal Oil Point, in Santa Barbara Sound being the largest natural oil seep.
* The Gulf of Mexico natural oil seeps release over 40 million gallons of oil into the marine environment every year easily dwarfing the BP oil spill so far.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2000) — “Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year,…..”
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See also geology.com
Al Gore appears to be getting some free publicity;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/7852300/Al-Gore-behaved-like-crazed-sex-poodle-with-masseuse.html
After ranting and raving about going vegan to reduce greenhouse gases from livestock Heather Mills went into her gas guzzling 4×4
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_03/MillsJeepALP_468x300.jpg
The bigger problem is that the only people who are thicker than McCartney are the morons who pay to read the comic called the Sun. They probably think holocaust is a bad goal keeper.