Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Paul McCartney, who rose to fame in the 1960s as a member of The Beatles, has expressed his frustration at our failure to heed the climate message, by writing a song aimed at President Trump and other “climate deniers”.
Paul McCartney on handling crowds, and why he calls Donald Trump “the mad captain”
By Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter
13 September 2018…
But the album’s angriest moment comes on Despite Repeated Warnings – a diatribe about climate change deniers, with a lyric that couldn’t be more timely or relevant: “Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
“People who deny climate change… I just think it’s the most stupid thing ever,” says the star.
“So I just wanted to make a song that would talk about that and basically say, ‘Occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it’s not a cool idea.'”
That mad captain, could it be anyone in particular?
“Well, I mean obviously it’s Trump but there’s plenty of them about. He’s not the only one.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45482360
Click here for a sound only interview with McCartney talking about his new song.
People like McCartney in my opinion epitomise the kind of out of touch “Champagne socialists” who look down on the deplorables, who don’t understand ordinary people’s reluctance to embrace hardship, expensive green energy and personal sacrifice, so he and his friends can fly about on private jets telling the world how wonderful they feel that we made the “right” choice.
BeAtles, son.
Hey I was never a fan ;-). Fixed, thanks.
The verse is average, but the chorus has a genuine hook.
What a surprise. Simple likes the song.
Replace Trump with Obama, and Simple would be demanding jail time for the artist.
Have you heard it or just commenting from a point of ignorance again? And actually the album is great. Got very good reviews.
Yup, intentionally misspelt, but nonetheless a tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
Get the subtlety?
“Beat” as in music
The original version was “Beatals”.
Some cartoon did a parody of them & was titled “The Beat-Alls”.
If I may be permitted to comment, now that we have Sir Paul’s story of the band’s youthful bonding ritual, they could rightly be called the Beat Offs.
John some times you just have to get the situation in hand, so to speak.
That spelling was used to relate the group to The Beat Generation, I believe; not something I ever wanted to do, but to each his own, as long as it’s legal.
Thing is, people like McCartney would like to see ‘denial’ – what we call scepticism – made illegal: a thought crime.
Paul McCartney has smoked too much pot,
written only a few good songs since
he stopped working with John Lennon,
and only one great song, IMHO,
since the Beatles,
“Maybe, I’m Amazed”
(studio version only)
looks like a grandmother,
and his voice has significantly
deteriorated to the point where
Auto-Tune can’t “fix it”.
On the positive side, I suppose,
he gives very long concerts,
according to a friend
— perhaps that’s why his voice
has worn out?
As an audiophile, with thousands of CDs,
I am very disappointed with McCartney’s
output of so many lame songs after the Beatles.
As a “climate scientist” I can only wonder
why McCartney doesn’t just wear
a T-shirt that says”I’m Stoopid”
In 21 years of reading about climate change,
I have never read, or heard, anyone
“deny climate change” — that is
a false strawman used to attack
people who do know something
about climate change”.
It must be sad
to peak so high
in your twenties,
as a songwriter,
singer and musician,
like McCartney did,
and then fall so far,
especially his looks:
— Paul, please get a face lift
— you can afford it !
And keep away from climate science,
where you embarrass yourself.
So have you listened to the album? It is getting great reviews. I’d say that is a fine effort for a man his age.
Richard, your too kind to the rat, as like all chancers and baw heeds he jumped on the band wagon and made millions from the people who also thought the sun shown out his !!!! – a bit like Al Gore et al, That’s why the climate debate’s been polluted and hijacked and as the song says; its a rat trap and we’ve been conned. But Rock on Tommy as thanks to WUWT et al the public can be told the truth – but only if the Man will allow them to know that co2 does not drive the climate!
This demeaning attack on Paul McCartney says far more about you than it does about one of the finest musicians of the 20th Century.
After this senile peacenik’s pop-up concert in Grand Central Terminal the other night, (duly covered by a bevy of security armed with submachine guns), not to mention the next day’s New York Post cover relating his more pathetic than salacious post-adolescent adventures in communal onanism, I think it’s pretty obvious this irrelevant’s publicist told him the best ways to get attention nowadays are:
(1) Call President Trump nasty names and tout your Wokeness on made-up “issues;”
(2) Talk dirty.
Pretty unoriginal on both counts, I’d say. Boring.
“Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
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There is a difference, Paul:
Skeptic: A person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.
Denier: Someone who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition.
The formative years were hard on Paul, he sees things that aren’t there and jumps over them (he likes paisley).
Skeptics tend toward being factualists, especially when it pertains to matters of science.
Definition of factualist – A person whose predominant concern is with facts; Philosophy an adherent of factualism.
Factualism definition, emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment. See more.
Just self promotional virtue signaling at it’s best….
…all about making money, and he thinks this will get him attention..and money
He’s on tour….and so today and relavent
With any luck..one more face lift..and he can fart out his nose
Yeah, must be hard having been one of the original global super stars and having to cope with becoming irrelevant.
“Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
Yes, well the doomsday alarmists having been shouting real loud for the last 30 years, but they aren’t getting any smarter.
and I just bet hes oblivious to the irony of his statement..taint us skeptics who’ve had the loud and strident voices by a long shot
they make damned sure our voice is a muffled as they can make it.
Paul McCartney, Bill Nye and Al Gore are like “three peas in a pod”.
They are “science illiterates” who have all lost their once noted “claim-to-fame” and have been doing anything and everything they can think up to “attract” another 2 minutes of the public’s attention.
The Three Stooges of climate change
All are different, one is a billionaire, one only has half a billion and the other one has the worst taste in clothing on the planet.
So money really can buy you love after all huh? Whoda thunk it!
Sir Paul is well known for his giant carbon footprints via private jets. BIG private jets.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3579551/Sir-Paul-McCartney-flies-UK-entourage-private-jet-takes-quick-break-One-One-world-tour.html
Nice Wings.
But, but, Paul … you convinced this 12yo boy that … Happiness is a WARM gun ? Why have you turned so COLD in your old age?
He lost my respect when he let Linda sing and joined the bubblegum genre.
That was a Lennon composition
Sung by McCartney
“I’m not denying climate change. On the contrary, I cause it.”
As Dr A Einstein (almost) said ”The shoemaker should stick to his last and the singer should stick to his banjo”.
You saw “Deliverance,” too.
Who I am to deny /that/.
And then Steppenwolf has this relevant line that Paul should heed:
Yesterday’s glory won’t help us today You wanna retire? Get out of the way
“Paul McCartney Can’t Understand Climate Denial”
He prob’ly has trouble understanding flatearthism too.
If he led by example, giving up his private jet and car, living in a small cottage rather than an energy intensive mansion, I might take his climate rants more seriously.
I have no problem with rich people living a life or luxury, but I have a big problem with those rich people telling me I have to make sacrifices while they continue living it up.
This is a musician who boasts that he doesn’t understand musical notes.
How can a person with such disrespect for his own trade be expected to show any kind of understanding, not to say respect for science.
You know, this constant “live by example” gets so old. Rock stars need to go to concerts or they stop being rock stars. Climate scientists need to go to science meetings to get grad students and postdocs. It’s business. Until there is an energy neutral way to do that, they both will use jets, that’s the only choice there is no real alternative.
The other, more important thing, is that by pushing a pro energy neutral agenda, they will have far more effect on changing the earth than sitting in their offices. This is the thing I suspect you dislike.
I have no problem with low carbon energy which works, I’ve written several times on WUWT about my support for nuclear power.
e.g.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/31/a-conversation-with-dr-james-hansen-on-nuclear-power/
I have a big problem with wasting vast sums of money on useless technology which doesn’t work.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/
But
Things improve. Who would have thought a few years ago that on certain days the Iowa and Colombia Gorge turbines produce all the power for Iowa or Washington, respectively, and haf to figure what to do with their overage.
Someday, in the near future, access energy will be stored in millions of batteries in individual electric cars, for use in the next weeks. An interesting thought.
When renewables can produce reliable dispatchable power for a similar cost to fossil fuels, there will be no need for government action, because people will embrace renewables of their own free will.
I somehow don’t think that day will happen in my lifetime.
Really,
Dunno about Iowa, but the Columbia Gorge wind turbines lose money, forcing rate payers to pick up the tab:
https://tdn.com/news/local/green-energy-from-the-columbia-gorge-proving-costly-to-cowlitz/article_18118cd0-db2b-11e4-80c2-8749c5b81f01.html
I’d appreciate it if you could state on which days Columbia Gorge turbines produced enough power to meet all the electricity needs of Washington State. Thanks!
reallyskeptical
This is a display of the US power generation system. I think the turbines you are referring to are hydro and have been there quite some time. 🤷
https://www.eia.gov/realtime_grid/#/status?end=20180915T00
michael
Mike,
The wind turbine farms interfere with optimal operation of the BPA’s Columbia River dams.
AND DEVICES THAT KILL BIRDS & OTHER CRITTERS.
John Tillman
I did not know that. How do they interfere.
Not challenging, I just don’t know.
michael
Mike,
Integrating wind and hydro requires compromises. There is a limit to how much water can be spilled while still meeting quality standards. When there is oversupply of water or generated power, the water is spilled over the dams without passing through the turbines.
Adding wind turbines to the same grid means that power oversupply happens more often, usually at night, when power demand is lower. Wind turbines complicate this algorithm.
BPA denies that there is a problem, but it in fact exists, apart from all the other economic and environmental disadvantages of subsidized wind power.
Adding to the complexity is the other TWO requirements for the dam:
1. Enough water MUST be left in the lakes/reservoir AFTER all power has been generated over the ENTIRE coming season for the irrigation and city water demand that has been approved by each regulating agencies/agency/states/national bodies involved.
2. Enough “spare room” MUST be left in every lake and reservoir BEFORE the flooding starts each season to allow the lakes to takes up that sudden surge of rain, floodwaters from higher-up lakes and dams and snowpacks, PLUS local rain and snowpack melting.
So you can NEVER obligate “all of the water” needed to balance the hour-by-minute-by-hour changes of the winds and solar, and you MUST NEVER leave “zero room” in the lakes to take up sudden floods.
Mike,
I should add that when the wind is blowing, the wind turbines get priority, regardless of what would be that right thing to do with the water at that time, ie spill it, run it through the turbines or let it just sit there behind the dam.
Water ends up getting wasted by not being run through the turbines. The wind turbines make the system less efficient.
UNFCCC
Articles on:
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20migratory%20bats
https://unfccc.int/gcse?q=renewable%20energy%20migratory%20birds
Articles might shed some light on this situation?
Forgot to ask reallyskeptical – why do you think rockers deserve a free pass? What essential service do they provide by flying about in private jets which they couldn’t provide staying at home recording a few online videos? What is it they do which is so important that its worth endangering the future of the planet to allow them to continue doing it without making a smidgeon of effort to cut their carbon footprints?
Even a troll should be able to figure out that if you have enough of something, even something as unreliable as wind and solar, from time to time there will be enough power, to power everything.
The problem is today, as it has been for the last 100 years, as it will be for the next hundred years; What do you do when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.
Until you can solve those problems, wind and solar will never be more than expensive, unreliable curiosities.
RACookPE1978 September 16, 2018 at 6:15 pm
In the Columbia-Snake system, besides spring runoff, water quality, irrigation and other uses, we also have to factor in fish migration and barge traffic.
It was a complicated algorithm even before wind, and now solar, mixed and muddied the waters.
John and others thanks for the feedback on hydro and wind turbines.
michael
I personally wonder why people like you will go thru every hoop possible to make excuses for this jet set.
But i will give you there are exceptions: When Al Gore came to Oslo to receive the Noble, he traveled by train from the airport to Oslo, the large number of people accompanying him though, they all traveled in black limousines.
If only it was noble, or even better, No Bull. Sadly it has become silly.
When at Cannes one year, Gore drove the half mile from the hotel to the convention center is a limousine, then left the limousine running while he gave a speech.
If he really believed his own movie, he would have sailed from NY to Oslo. It will only take 20-40 days.
Nobel prize = foreign meddling.
Trump should do something. (Possibly invade the place and take the oil.)
Really,
If Sir Paul wanted to reduce his carbon footprint, he, his band and roadies would fly in a normal commercial airliner rather than a private jet. That’s what “climate scientists” do.
There’s also the issue of his extensive real estate holdings. I don’t begrudge him any of his ranches, farms and urban mansions in the US and Britain, but he really ought to practice what he preaches.
https://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/celebrity-homes/a7347/paul-mccartney-buys-manhattan-triplex/
He hasn’t been seen on his farm in Scotland for about a decade, and may have sold it.
reallyskeptical
“You know, this constant “live by example” gets so old.” Yes it does how often must it be repeated before it sinks in?
Lets start, Rock stars, no they don’t is you said they would cease to be globe trotting stars, but if you are going to take a stand take the stand.
Now “Climate scientists, NO they don’t. Grad students come to the department. No one has to hunt them down.
They go to attract attention, to control the flow of information to the public.
They are no longer scientists merely carnival barkers selling snake oil.
If they really believe in AGW they must live by example. This is a must, people do not follow those who say do as I say not as I do.
Hope that clears things up for you
michael
What? Me worry about the opinions of Paul McCartney. Not likely.
Definition of factualist – A person whose predominant concern is with facts; Philosophy an adherent of factualism
Really sceptical: we don’t need prodding from people who don’t know the first thing about science. We need respect for skeptics who have a valid reason for doubting the conjecture that a slight increase in a trace gas in the atmosphere will cause the world to come to an end. I’m sure that if you told Sir Paul that there is 25 times more argon in the atmosphere than there is carbon dioxide, he’d be surprised, assuming he knows what carbon dioxide and argon are.
He also might not know that enjoying a fourth molecule of the essential trace gas per 10,000 dry air molecules has greened the planet, and that more would be better for C3 plants and other living things.
OTOH, wind turbines and solar arrays massacre millions of birds and bats, benefiting crop-devouring insects, which must then be killed with pesticides.
But Sir Paul would not be surprised with the balance of his many investments, which he undoubtedly pays to have monitored very, very closely.
when wind turbines kill 1/10 as many birds as cars, I will worry. Until then, not.
It matter what kind of bird, even if that estimate is correct. Cats kill very few raptors or bats.
John Tillman said,”He also might not know that enjoying a fourth molecule of the essential trace gas per 10,000 dry air molecules has greened the planet, and that more would be better for C3 plants and other living things.”
You should put a fourth molecule of the essential trace gas CO per 10,000 in your house. I think it might be essential.
You should put a fourth molecule of the essential trace gas CO per 10,000 in your house. I think it might be essential.
What an ignorant comment. The debate as to sensitivity due to a fourth molecule of a trace gas in no way gives you license to urge someone to put a known poison in their home and breath it. What a ridiculous case of false equivalence.
reallyskeptical September 16, 2018 at 5:26 pm
CO is not an essential trace gas. That you imagine it to be so suggests that you’ve inhaled too much of it, destroying essential brain cells in the process.
The claim that cars kill more birds than do windmills has been refuted many times.
Though I’m not surprised to see that RS is still passing off any convenient lie.
reallyskeptical September 16, 2018 at 5:22 pm
Please provide a source for an estimate of the number of birds killed by cars each year. Thanks.
Your number appears to be off by orders of magnitude. Par for the alarmist course, I guess. To be ten times more than wind turbine deaths, cars would have to kill over three million birds a year in North America, based upon Audubon Society estimates.
https://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-birds
Other estimates of bird and bat deaths are much higher.
http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/releases/spanish-wind-farms-kill-6-to-18-million-birds-bats-a-year.html
Hello reallyskeptical September 16, 2018 at 5:22 pm
Please list 5 separate studies that give a number for bird deaths due to autos, trucks cars.
They must not, cite one another and have done their own independent counts. No extrapolating, just confirmed deaths, physical counts.
by the way after over 40 years of driving I have never had a bird hit my car just once, along with Fido and squirrel nutkin
Good luck
michael
RS, please cite date for bird death by cars, because as someone who has been driving for decades, I call BS. In all my years of driving I’ve only ever had 1 bird hit my car (it did a number on my side mirror), while I assume it died from the hit, I could not verify as I have no idea where the body flew off to. Of all the people I know (with centuries of driving experience between them) I know of only 1 other person who had a bird collision (also damaging their side mirror). 1 windmill manages more bird deaths than that in 1 month of operation.
Really[snip]:
What really gets old is the hypocrisy of the “elites” who demand the rest of us restrict our lives in ways they refuse to do.
“Lead by example”.
They refuse to do so. They and what they say are to “important” to be hindered by the restrictions they’d impose on us peons.
“Us peons? You know, those of us who live in reality and don’t just imagine things.
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Three cheers for the mooderator.
mooderator”
Well his comments have often affected my mood.
Sorry about that. I’ve been around here long enough to know better.
Reallyskeptical, sorry I had a bit of fun with your screen name here. Really!
“This is the thing I suspect you dislike.”…
nope, I dislike pompous ignorant know it alls…telling the rest of the world they should adopt their religion
Here is a link to a near-real-time (5 minutes) chart of BPA balancing the various power sources.
https://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.aspx
Note that wind (green line near the bottom) went to near zero in each of the last 3 days.
We are in the center of the State and 100% of our electricity is from falling water.
The brown line (fossil/biomass) is low but steady (more so than wind). Read carefully what those sources are.
Some of the BPA power goes to California via the Pacific DC Intertie (Path 65).
John,
Thanks.
As you know, power also comes back from California, but the former regular exchange of our power to them in the summer for air conditioning with theirs in winter for our heating has broken down in recent years.
So they get a pass because they’re “saving the Earth”?
Sorry, no. That leads directly to “…but some animals are more equal than others.”
The hypocritical always have reasons why they shouldn’t be held to the same standards that they demand of others.
That RS joins his Gods in supporting this type of hypocrisy doesn’t surprise me.
reallyskeptical,
You misunderstand! It is the “Don’t do as I do, do as I say” attitude that makes them seem arrogant and hypocritical. If they really think having a minimal carbon footprint is so important, then they should make the hard choice of whether they want to continue to make money, or to make a sacrifice and set an example.
There are alternatives to flying, such as taking a bus or train, or a ship across the pond. Its that those aren’t as convenient and quick. So, you and they rationalize flying as the only alternative.
If they stay in the limelight, it is true that they may have more influence. But then that puts them in the position of the animals in Animal Farm where some are more ‘equal’ than others.
If they can’t “walk the talk,” they shouldn’t be singing about it.
Heck, they could fly commercial instead of using a private jet.
Ah yes, they always have excuses for themselves. “Rock stars need to go to concerts or they stop being rock stars.”
Well about that. So what? He doesn’t need to be a rock star. He doesn’t need to work. If he tried his damnedest he couldn’t spend one tenth of his wealth before he dies.
Well guess what, that excuse works for us little people too, and we do need to work. A logger couldn’t be a logger if he couldn’t run those big diesel burning machines. An airline pilot needs his plane to keep burning jet fuel or he’d stop being a airline pilot.
“Live by example” gets so old for you because it hits a nerve, and it’s valid. None of the prominent global warming alarmists actually believe what they preach. If they did, they would act like they believe. If the Pope demanded that all of his flock obey each and every one of the 10 commandments while breaking them all himself, would you think for one second that he believes what he preaches?
Oh, and “by pushing a pro energy neutral agenda, they will have zero effect on changing the earth, but instead will affect changing of the economies of the western capitalist nations for the worse and that, I suspect, is what your real hope is,.
They always have excuses for themselves. “Rock stars need to go to concerts or they stop being rock stars.”
About that: He has no need to be a rock star. He has no need to work. If he tried his damnedest he couldn’t spend a tenth of his money in his lifetime. Surely the planet is more important than his rock star ego.
Climate scientists never heard of video conferencing?
And that excuse works for us little people too, even more so because we need to work. If a logger didn’t burn diesel in that big machine he couldn’t be a logger. If an airline pilot didn’t burn jet B he couldn’t be an airline pilot.
“Live by example” gets so old for you because it hits a nerve. It’s rather obvious all the prominent promoters of global warmunism don’t actually believe what they preach or they’d act like it. Actions speak louder than words. If the Pope insisted that each and every one of his followers obey each and every one of the 10 commandments while at the same time, breaking every one of them himself, nobody would think he believed what he preached.
Oh, and they will have zero effect on changing the earth, but will definitely have an effect on harming the economies and lives of the majority of citizens in the successful capitalist countries, which is, I suspect, what you really want.
Sorry for the double post, the first one didn’t show up.
There are alternatives, reallyskeptical. The Climate Scientists can hold their meeting virtually (using only solar and wind energy powered electronic communications, of course). Rock Star can travel by other means then Jets and limos. Sail boats & electric cars come to mind. Heck they could get some of their groupies to man the oars and row a Viking-style longship for them if they cared enough about the environment. Oh, but those things would require sacrifices from them (and their hangers on), and you wonder why people don’t take them seriously because they refuse to “live by example” yet want everyone else to be the ones making the sacrifices.
“What about her emails” = “gets so old” = “we are fed up with the real world and want to go back to riding a unicorn over a rainbow”
reallyskeptical writes “This is the thing I suspect you dislike”
Non-scientists preaching science is amusing. I love DiCaprio preaching the danger of sea level rise while building a fabulous resort in Belize at sea level.
What I dislike is leftists sneaking yet another tax on my labor using any kind of pretext.
I would be thrilled to have useful alternatives to coal and oil whose remaining supply dwindles daily.
reallyskeptical,
If McCartney has such a strong moral commitment to his belief system, why doesn’t he dedicate his vast wealth to subsidize “weather-dependent” power sources and lessen the burden on poor people who made him wealthy by buying his records? Alternatively, he could invest in power technology to try to achieve breakthroughs such as improved efficiency in photovoltaic cells. Putting his money where his mouth is, instead of music, would elevate him from being an honorary knight, to being a saint. But then, words are cheap.
I like that.
Man using fossil fuel for power upsets the weather so to stop Man from upsetting the weather Man must turn to “weather-dependent” power to keep Man from upsetting the weather.
What could go wrong?
he has no trouble understanding ‘circle jerk’
and the beat goes on.
Because he keeps looking for denialists and all he can seem to fundare skeptics, and, well, that’s just really confusing to him.
Be fair to him, he is only a glorified pop star. They are not normally blessed with being the sharpest knife in the drawer. His own level of intelligence is in the self belief that he thinks he is intelligent.
Amazing that so many people who don’t know a thing about climate have such strong opinions about it.
Wrong opinions would be more correct.
Jim
Amazing what so many people who haven’t learned a thing about science and climate think.
Just like people with zero knowledge about vaccines, history of medicine, how medical research is done, how to interpret a medical study, are certain they are essential.
Another tired hobby-horse drug in and beaten.
Flaccid paralysis is well correlated with polio vaccine in India. Why no media scandal?
Because the establishment left aka centrists (New Labour, “En Marche” (Macron)) and the establishment right (Republican party) agree that vaxxism is a duty and skepticism is an insult to God (Big Medicine is God).
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https://jameslyonsweiler.com/ecological-and-epidemiological-fallacies-in-vaccine-studies/
Mark W.
“tired hobby-horse”? You mean vaccines?
I’ve been reading this site since 2010 and that is only the second post I’ve seen about vaccines. When was the poor horse drugged and beaten?
Touriste, This is a climate site. I hate to be the one to tell you, but when it comes to vaxxine safety and a few other subjects, you’ll find that cognitive dissonance is the rule here.
Simp,
“People with zero knowledge about vaccines, history of medicine, how medical research is done, how to interpret a medical study”
Thanks for providing the self-description. Not that medical research has a lot of which to be proud, but the efficacy of vaccines isn’t among its shortcomings.
McCartney has stuck me as being a compulsive trendoid, being a vegetarian and such. Vegan airhead usually strikes me as redundant.
just another climate whore
I think it speaks for itself:
If we are all supposed to be worried about warming I’m having trouble with his image that disaster will be in the form of an iceberg.
Its difficult to make warm weather seem scary, thats why global warming films usually bomb unless they include a few episodes of deadly cold like “The Day After Tomorrow”. I guess the same principle applies to music.
Desperate fo attention,any attention, poor Paul.
Plugging his “New song” aging artist sucks in media..?
Maybe we should start addressing him as Sir Yoko.
However is quite funny that his accusation points directly at him.
Those who know the least are loudest to proclaim their knowledge..
Maybe we should start addressing him as Sir Faul, or as Billy Shears.
It’s one thing that really drives him up the wall.
Paul, stick to what you were good at, stay away from things you know little about preaching from the pulpit of your fame.
Why is it that the famous often think they know more than others? Even specialists in climatology acknowledge that we don’t know all natural causes of climate change so how can we possibly attribute the affect of so called man made CO2 climate change with any accuracy at all? Personally I think CO2 is a bit player and natural systems are far more important- but I’m not famous. Anyway, I much prefer “Queen” and at least Andy May has a PhD in astrophysics.
Isn’t it Brian may?
And yes, he’s the thinking girls musician!
Yup.
Brian, not Andy May. Andy posts on this blog.
Dr. Brian May, who earned a long-delayed astrophysics PhD in 2007, was on NASA’s New Horizons team. It might have been a typical NASA publicity stunt. Dunno to what extent he actually participated in analyzing data, but no reason why he couldn’t have done so.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/07/queens-brian-may-is-a-member-of-nasas-new-horizon-team/
Musical and mathematical skill are often correlated.
He may have been pushed into doing this by friends who are activists. it’s unlikely it was purely a personal impulse—although he may just be repeating what he’s read in the sort of magazines and newsletters he subscribes to.
PS: Other celebrities may also have been nudged into speaking out on this issue. Perhaps this nudging of celebrities is a tactic in the activists’ playbook. If not, it would occur to any of the celebrity’s friends who are activists.
maybe nudged is not the right word.
the fluffer industry is built on progressive values.
Rich people get a free pass if they genuflect to the green god and splash a bit of cash in the right direction, kind of like the old corrupt practice of buying indulgences.
While I like (liked) Paul McCartney I think all celebrities should stay out of Politics as a platform through their performances. They of course are entitled to their personal opinions, but I don’t want them pushing it from the stage in words or in song. He did the same with his new wife regarding the seals in Canada without any knowledge about what he was talking about. However, him along with Pamela Anderson used it as a ‘cross to die on’ for a couple of years, then moved on to Climate Change. All attention getters. Maybe they do that as a cover up for fading talent.
Edith, I agree, but Sir Paul may not know that human-induced global warming/climate change is global politics at its worst.
Cheers
Bob
I liked the Fab 4 when they were hot but never looked to them to solve my problems (poor college guy with just a few bucks). But the final straw was when the Library of Congress decided to give him an award. It was presented in a ceremony presided by BHO and McCartney made the absolutely stupid remark that he was glad he received it from a president who knew what a library was. News Flash Paul, Laura Bush was a Librarian.
Oy.
When will celebs come to terms with the fact that real people don’t give a flying duck about their opinions on any subject?
QUACK!
Bob
PS: Paul, stop with the facelifts. You look like somebody’s grandmother.
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Paul McCartney is a musical genius, but he knows nothing about human-caused Global Warming/Climate Change, obviously.
I remember when the Beatles first couple of songs came out on the radio. They definitely had a unique, different sound from what we were hearing at the time. They were Very Good! Well, you’ve heard them.
Paul should stick to singing and song writing. The “Mad Captain” has everything well in hand. Don’t worry about a thing, Paul.
The madness is part of his method.
Yes.
They should not be allowed to birth the baby and a-bort her, too. It’s Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. The end of the world is Nye. You will pay for redistributive change whether you deny or believe their Profits-y.
“The end of the world is Nye.”
I like it! 🙂
It will always be easier to make a song than an argument.
I also wrote a song about climate denial. Two songs.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/06/the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind/
Thanks!
Love it!
He’s back in the USSR
https://www.google.ca/search?ei=oOOeW5emCa_85gLPuIeIBQ&q=back+in+the+ussr+lyrics&oq=back+in+the+ussr+lyrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l5.12705.19361.0.20019.23.23.0.0.0.0.147.2158.18j5.23.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..0.23.2154…0i67k1j0i131k1j0i10i67k1.0.o_LR3briTuA
I’d say the biggest “denialists” are those who deny that there is room for serious doubt about those who exaggerate 1) man’s influnce 2) global warming Paul, you are one dumb pop music guy.
Stick to things you know something about, whatever that might be.
The reason Sir Paul “can’t understand climate denial,” is that there’s no such thing. It’s a straw man. Nobody denies there’s a climate, or that it changes. The difference of opinions come in over the propaganda message that carbon dioxide is going to destroy the world. CO2 is allegedly the control knob that allegedly can be tweaked to preserve the alleged perfect climate we have now, or had in 1940, or 1750 or 1400 B.C. or some climate or other that isn’t going downhill fast like the rotten situation we’re now faced with. In 30 years of hand-wringing, the alarmists haven’t made much of a case, but they’re very emphatic that combustion fuels should be drastically curtailed whether or not practical alternatives are devised. For good measure, they’re against non-combustion fuels like nuclear and hydro, too. So what if dismantling the electric grid harms the poor most.
“Well, then, the poor are just going to have to get poorer,” sayeth the rich, “Until we come up with something.”
People don’t like getting poorer. Especially in service to pie-in-the-sky promises that may never come true. Fellows like Sir Paul, who expended considerable energy getting rich, should understand that much.
Like many (most) of the chattocracy in our blessed isles, Macca has probably sub-contracted-out all his political thinking to the likes of the BBC and The Guardian (the ‘thinking man’s newspaper’ – “We tell you what to think, so you don’t have to!”)
Another pampered twat with a world government wet dream.
Just remember that such a World guvment won’t apply to the like of him!
As a bassist myself, my opinion of him has dropped to zero. He is clearly using Trump and climate change scare to promote his new album.
Just a sad old man grasping at the past.
Great in his time but retirement is long since past. Like all the aged rock stars trotting out clichéd numbers, stop hogging the airwaves and give younger generations a chance.
If the desire to work still burns, there are lots of local pubs that would welcome a guy with a guitar.
And bleating about climate change is just a sure fired way of getting on the BBC.