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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ShrNfr says:
June 25, 2010 at 10:39 am
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.
And Alice Cooper is a decent golf player 🙂 (is true, honest…)
Mike86 said:
“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. ”
Not exactly sure what point you’re trying to make here, Mike, but to answer your question BP drilling in mile deep water had absolutely nothing to do with lack of availability of sources in shallower water but because the environmentalists (include Obama and current political majority) drove them further and further from shore in the name of environmentalism. That really work out great, yeah?
Paul, Paul, Paul. Sigh. Old age can really make your mind go. Sad to see. Stick to promoting positive alternatives like your vegetarian eating, and your serious concern for the environment. Comparing people who are asking for serious scientific investigation into climate to those who deny any of the holocausts we humans have done to each other is stupid.
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McCartney once wrote about “yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye”. His comments here are on about the same educational level.
Sign of the times, I’m afraid. The wise sages of our era are amoeba-footballers, z-list celebrities, addle-brained singers and one-legged lying gold diggers. What would Socrates and Plato have thought of this era, I wonder.
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Here’s someone else who should have quit while he was ahead:
http://townhall.com/cartoons/2010/06/25/6
Hey, Ghost of Big Jim Cooley:
“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.”
Try again. It’s about to become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Obama Administration.
Sun spot. One word, ‘Bhopal’. Look it up. As you Americans like to say, **it happens.
D Caldwell says:
June 25, 2010 at 7:28 am
“I wonder how Sir Paul travels around the world?
By solar powered aircraft and sailing ship I am sure.”
This is from a paper in Puerto Rico when he did a concert there last April:
“José Hernández, of AEG Live, said some 130 people would travel with the star and that the scenery and projections would be among the most spectacular of any production ever. Two 747 airplanes are expected to touch down with equipment for the concert, including a 125 by 80 foot stage, 12 miles of cable and 5,000 AMPS, as well as 31 buses.”
The article is here:
http://www.prdailysun.com/?page=news.article&id=1268964519
My brother went to the concert and later told me that Sir Paul did not stay in a hotel, he stayed in the plane. His guess is that one of the aircraft is a VIP custom job, the other a cargo plane.
Let’s see now, 2 747s from England to Puerto Rico… According to this “warmist” website:
http://www.chooseclimate.org/flying/mapcalc.html
He spewed out 1,122,580 kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere in about 7-hours (approx.). Want to compare that to a Hummer?
– and that was just one-way……
– and he’s going all over the world doing this……
The man should NEVER open his mouth about global warming – What an embarrassment! It’s always the ones who can claim the least that do most of the talking. They are all the same……
Jose
And further regarding the UK/US “jointness” of BP, here’s the current Board of Directors:
The Board Members are:[48]
Carl-Henric Svanberg – Chairman
Sir Ian Prosser – Non-executive director
Byron Grote – Chief Financial Officer
Andy Inglis – Chief executive, Exploration and Production
Antony Burgmans – Non-executive director, board of Mauritshuis, AEGON, Unilever
Cynthia Carroll – Non-executive director, CEO of Anglo American, also board of De Beers
Sir William Castell – Non-executive director chairman of The Prince’s Trust
George David – Non-executive director
Tony Hayward – CEO/MD BP Worldwide
Iain Conn
George David vice-chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Erroll Davis, board of General Motors and Union Pacific.
Douglas Flint, CBE director HSBC
Dr DeAnne Julius, director of Chatham House
Wow. Look at all of the Americans there!
Jimbo says:
June 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm
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
Then it seems that BP has found an INCONVENIENT sea of black gold over there and that would end any possibilities of success for “alternative energies” and obliterate all Al Baby’s dreams.
You have to stop all drilling! Otherwise, Al Bedwetter Maximum will pee unceasingly!
The ancient Greeks referred to actors as ‘hypocrites,’ and they did so for a reason.
It would seem that not a few minstrels are deserving of that cognomen as well.
Think: Who travels extensively and expends ~all of that carbon~ in the process, right along with inviting all of those admiring fans to do the same in the name of gross profits?
Yep: Sir Paulie boy, the genuine HYPOCRITE!
I can’t believe that after 100 or so comments, no one has pointed out that Paul has, yet again, re-affirmed that Ringo was and is actually the smartest one in the bunch.
Paul has been assured that when the ultra-rich begin the culling he will be on their short list for preservation.
Paul: Hell yeah- I’ll pitch your Global Die-Off BS.
Probably one of the reasons, John was put down- He would never suck up to power.
“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.”
A 5yr. old’s mentality and fact base, tops – no slight intended toward any true 5yr. old.
I am getting more and more convinced that there are much more AGW followers who are scientifically-challenged, such as Paul McCartney, many Hollywood stars, journalists and politicians than there are scientifically knowledgable people who support AGW. On the other hand, skeptics tend to range between at least knowledgable in science, able to understand scientific reports to outright experts in scientific areas. More than this I have noted that the most skeptic of them all are solar scientists. In fact, the IPCC could only find one single solar ‘ scientist’ who was willing to cook a report for them, now debunked by many. Mr. McCartney should stick to music, or has he lost his genious there too? And he should also at least learn some science and accept that all energy on this planet comes from the sun.
http://hipcelebrity.blogspot.com/2008/07/paul-mccartney-and-nancy-shevell-get.html
Response to all those above who claim that Sir Paul is hypocritical in spewing out CO2 in modern-day concerts. That’s nothing, folks.
Paul and the others in the Fab Four were responsible for unprecedented fossil fuel use in the 60’s and onward, that was used to manufacture and transport massive numbers of things my generation purchased, including vinyl recordings and record players and the “needles” they required, portable radios and batteries to run them, gasoline for the car we borrowed from parents just so we could drive around with the radio at top volume playing Beatles tunes, then later 8-track tape decks and the 8-track tapes, later still cassette tape decks and cassette tapes so we could record the songs off the radio, later still CD players and the CDs to play in them, and later still DVDs of various movies and concerts The Lads played. It was known as Beatlemania; if you were there, then you know. If you are too young to remember it, try watching the 1965 Shea Stadium concert on youtube. Now, THAT was reality tv. And it lives on, as demonstrated by continued strong sales of their recordings even as the forms of digital media continue to evolve.
I expect that nothing Sir Paul does from now on could ever equal even a small percentage of all that CO2 production.
As to his wealth, it derives mostly from royalties from song copyrights he purchased. I suspect he plays concerts because they are so very much fun, not because he needs the money.
However, I had hoped Sir Paul would have had just a bit more sense than he displayed in the interview. Perhaps he should have taken a cue from Elvis, who answered a reporter that asked him to comment on politics, “I’m just an entertainer.”
Fab Four Forever.
Since Mr. McCartney obviously cares so much about saving the planet and maintaining a small carbon foot print, I wonder what PUBLIC airline he flies on his trips between America and Britain? Just a hunch, but I am guessing it is the same PUBLIC airline that Al Gore flies.
Hi Jimbo,
Ummm. Your statement:
* 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.
doesn’t seem to be correct. Estimates are now in the 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons of crude per day range. Since it seems unreasonable to assume that the flow has gotten BIGGER over time, that means that for ~70 days it has been spewing the same amount. That means about 140 million gallons, raw number. BP has been capturing more and more, but I don’t think enough that 40 million galons per year dwarfs the total released thus far.
Rich and gullible – his last wife proved that.
Celebrities, like Jane Fonda, have a habit of grabbing hold of the wrong end of the stick (in science matters) and refusing to let go. The sensible celebrity knows to keep his or her mouth shut, or be subjected to ridicule, usually well deserved.
Jackie says:
June 25, 2010 at 6:50 am
Why doesn’t McCartney show leadership and cancel all future CO2 spewing concerts of his and instead ask everyone to go to bed early on those nights to save the planet.”
Well said! These hypocritical self righteous morons are sickening. And this goes for all the AGW crowd. Put your money where your mouth is. Stop using plastics, stop driving cars, stop using airplanes, shut off all power to your house, grow your own crops in your back yard, and wear lots of wool in the winter. With less demand for oil, there will be less drilling, less spills, less CO2.
“Roger Sowell says:
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Paul and the others in the Fab Four were responsible for unprecedented fossil fuel use in the 60′s and onward, […]”
Roger, that’s a wonderful illustration of Julian Simon’s argument – getting ever more value out of a given amount of raw material as technology progresses.
Personally, i’m of the generation “All that phony beatlemania has bitten the dust… ”
(i guess reciting the song predestines me for being a climate sceptic if you know how the text continues). Which didn’t stop me from buying a CD copy of Abbey Road a few weeks ago when EMI needed money and for the first time offered Beatles CD for knockdown prices.
Okay, so if Mick Jagger is a good squash player, and Alice Cooper is a good golfer (he really is, he talks about it on his show which I listen to most evenings), and Brian May (Queen) is a PhD in Astrophysics… I’m thinking Sir Paul is as good at climatology as Keith Richards is at climbing trees…
Give him a break. He’s a singer. You wouldn’t expect him to have any brains.
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.”
From the writer of the lyrics of “Band on the Run,” this phanopoeia wouldn’t surprise you.
Although, “Barack” (known to the rest of us as “President Obama”) was very good to overlook the fact that this man is a foreigner and have him for a visit in the White House to listen to his policy ideas for American citizens.
That is especially generous, since last I checked, it is illegal to accept campaign contributions from foreigners. Does the musician have any opinions about that, or just on how to ruin the standard of living for as many as possible as fast as possible?