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.
The “Greats” should shut up when their career runs down. I think its hard for such to grow old gracefully, realizing theirs was another age, another culture even, and even if it weren’t, they don’t have it anymore. He couldnt write a four line nursery rhyme now. If he is still writing, its obviously not getting any press. Pontificating on topical things he knows nothing about is a last straw-grasping grab at being relevant. Climate worriers in the trade get no lift from a Sir Paul. They know they have all these designer-brained types in the bag already. Whose surprised deCaprio, fading Meryl Streep and hundreds of other stars are of “one mind” on the issue?
Look at how sadly Stephen Hawking went from super star to an object of pity just before his death with a highschool, zero informaton diatribe about climate change. A celebrated physicist should have had something pithy to say. He was an embarrassment to AGW proponents, too, as well as himself.
The PR machine for the Vietnam War trundled doting Nobel novelist John Steinbeck out to support a war that he may not have remembered was happening.
Advice for failing celeb bandwagoneer-me-toos#: If you really want to regain relevance, come out as a sceptic! Shout out that AGW alarmism is a crock. Notoriety is the only game left ro you. This will put you on the TV talk show curcuit and the world news. You wont find much love out there, but they would have to acknowledge you have courage. Its easy to be a safe nonentity by buying the trend. You need cojones to be a sceptic.
Gary,
IMO, Steinbeck wasn’t a dotard in the Sixties. He died in 1968, aged 66. But in 1966-67, he was healthy enough actively to work as a war correspondent in SE Asia. His dispatches from the theater for Newsday were vilified by opponents of the war, but he reported what he saw. He had been a war correspondent for the NY Herald Tribune and an OSS operative in WWII, wounded and traumatized.
McCarthy is 76.
“But in 1966-67, he was healthy enough actively to work as a war correspondent in SE Asia.”
I think that was Steinbeck’s son.
Roger,
Nope. The author himself covered the war. Please click on link above. It’s Steinbeck in a Huey. Here’s another picture of him in Vietnam.
http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/s/steinbeck-in-vietnam/9780813932576_custom-31ad281d0642169bc93ae5ce1c7f56acca2fca8e-s6-c30.jpg
You might be thinking of Errol Flynn’s son, Sean, a photographer who was captured by Cambodian communists in 1970 and died there.
Also, two of his sons did serve in the war, which motivated him to cover it:
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/21/150012711/steinbeck-in-vietnam-a-great-writers-last-reports
Of course one or both of them could have been uniformed combat correspondents, as well. I don’t know their MOSes.
The Left has embraced using celebrity propaganda to push their message. Sports figures, actors/actresses, politicians, singers, anyone who is recognizable and presentable. All people that live a life disconnected from reality with a life of fame and fortune. Who cares what their opinion is? Some are paid to make you believe something that isn’t real. Some are paid to give you vicarious experience with their physical prowess and give you a sense of being on a “team”. When you don’t have a valid message every little trick helps.
As I see it alarmists have employed people from fake industries to support a fake problem.
When you have a solid message, you push the message.
When your message sucks, hire celebrities to push your message and hope the myrmidons don’t notice.
An ‘expert’ outside of his field is just a layman. Paul McCartney knows no more about car maintenance and quantum mechanics than the average citizen and probably less. His brilliance at music is not a portable skill, and he should shut the flick up.
BTW I’m a massive fan of his.
Wealth is a poor substitute for clear-eyed intelligence. That’s not to say Sir Paul isn’t musically talented, but like Leo DiCaprio, the wealth and fame from their talents for acting or singing does not impart on them to critically discern the Liberal propaganda on climate that is their bubble.
DiCaprio? Didn’t he fly 6000 miles in around trip to collect some enviro award , plus fly loads of his buddies in to watch him receive it?
If you play the song backwards do you “get back to where you once belonged”? I figure Homo habilis showed up at the drum circle with long hair a bit more than 2 millon years ago while CO2 had been running since around 4 – 2 million years ago at an estimated 400ppm.
Sir Paul can’t deny their extinction happened when CO2 levels declined. Didn’t he stop to think of the children?
“Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.” – Paul McCartney
Those who are the most famous may not always be the smartest. – me
I don’t know if he is “the smartest” but Dr. John Christie is undoubtedly very smart. He reminded our Congress in expert testimony that the way we come to believe that we actually understand how a physical system works is by making successful predictions about it. The people who make climate alarmist predictions are infamous for being wrong. They predicted that CO2 at today’s emission levels would cause huge amounts of warming, that it would cause a hockey stick to actually occur. But that isn’t happening. The only reason we’re seeing something akin to a hockey stick shape is because the dishonest gate keepers of the official data are cooling off the past, eliminating the high peaks of the 1930s and the medieval warm period. They eliminate proxy data post 1960 to hide the fact that their earlier proxy data was suspect and probably wrong. These lying liars understand nothing about how CO2 concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere effect global temperatures over very long periods. And they certainly don’t understand the economics of so-called renewable energy in the generation of large electricity grids, nor the actual monetary and human costs of artificially squelching the use of fossil fuels, which is among the best, most dense source for transportable energy at a reasonable cost. Nuclear fuel would be good too, but the environmental movement has made the regulatory environment so toxic that there can no longer be a positive economic use of nuclear power.
Bite me, Sir Paul.
I hold the Beatles responsible for much of the tragedy of the drug culture today, in that they were very influential to young people and pushed the “virtues” of using drugs. They have a lot to answer for, much more than complaining about a few extra molecules of carbon dioxide. So just shut up McCartney and go play your guitar.
Meh, I was more a fan of The Doors than the Beatles.
In the BBC article McCartney also gives inspirational credit to Taylor Swift for resisting internet bullying. She has also very publicly refused to be bullied into expressing political opinions about Donald Trump and the Me Too campaign.
What her thoughts really are is not well known (though she has previously directly criticized people in the music industry for bad behavior). However, she sets a good example by making it clear that her opinions are her own and she will express them in a manner of her own choosing at a time of her own choosing, and not have opinions foisted on her by other people in the media.
Paul McCartney, and a few other celebs, could probably learn something from her.
No one should be paying any attention to these hypocritical, one-dimensional celebrities because their knowledge and opinions of various world events is inevitably no better than the man-next-doors’. The real irony is that they’re among the last ones on the planet to cut back on their profligate lifestyles to combat climate change.
It’s the word “denial” that marks Macca out as a dope smoking old fool parroting “received wisdom”.
Only the other day in an interview he was telling everyone how he and the other Beatle musicians used to indulge in group masturbation sessions…. Apparently he’s still wanking on.
a link for those who might not believe me…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6156521/Paul-McCartney-reveals-enjoyed-group-masturbation-Beatles-bandmate-John-Lennon.html
That was such a funny read. Boys sitting in the dark doing things to themselves. But what about Paul and John in matching sunglasses? That look way to odd! And John wasn’t the man he made himself out to be in the media. He didn’t get on at all very well with his son for instance.
Gene Simmons gives his take on fellow rock n’ rollers and their political opinions.
“I think celebrities should basically shut their pie holes and do what they do best—act, sing, tap dance… all that kind of stuff,” Simmons told the FOX Business Network’s Charles Payne (December 3, 2016).
“President-elect Trump is the president. You can like it, you cannot like it. He’s the new president, that’s the end of the story.”
I’ll never forget John Howard’s media slap-down of Bono when Bono demanded (via media bullhorn) to meet with Howard to discuss stuff. When asked if he would meet with Bono, Howard looked surprised and simply said, “The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia does not take advice from pop stars.”
And we never heard from political Bono again.
Grandstanding belongs in grandstands.
Bono is trying to perpetuate the “hype” since LiveAid. He failed. He’s an arrogant grunt.
Like Leo DiCaprio private jetting from Europe to America and back to accept a climate change advocacy award, McCartney had his so-called green eco friendly car flown to him rather than waiting for a ship. They don’t act as if climate catastrophe is around the bend.
High school dropout, Captain Carbon Footprint DiCaprio really can’t believe his own rhetoric if he builds a less than hurricane proof sea level resort in the Caribbean.
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/2138373/dicaprios-eco-resort-just-one-delights-backpacking
How ironic the main man from the Beatles rock group who made his money by selling vinyl records made from fossil fuels now sings about global warming.
Plus the fossil fuel-generated power for their electric guitars and amps. Even many of their acoustic guitars had electric pickups.
And steel strings, metal tuners etc.
And studio recording gear.
“I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. … When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I’d run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. …. If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
― Alice Cooper
Yup, Alice Cooper is right on. The nighttime FM broadcasts that he hosts are excellent.
Well, I didn’t know he did FM broadcasts. And it seems that we in QLD Australia can get it too.
https://www.rebelfm.com.au/our-shows/nightswithalicecooper
Why would anyone care about what a terrific musician thinks about Atmospheric Physics? What could he possibly know, other than what he reads? What are the chances that he knows the difference between a Dipole Moment and an Induced Dipole Moment? Virtually zero.
That is two minutes out of my life I will not get back…
McCartney is no different than many people who think of science as a belief system, and who blindly accept most anything said in the name of science.
What they don’t fathom is that practitioners of real science are at all times skeptical, demanding proof and access to the data supporting the assertions.
But for many, science is just another faith—like deities and statism. Many of the same people believe in Harry Potter economics.
Paul McCartney makes a song where he admits climate disaster believers are wrong as they have shooting loudly for long time and are the ultimate deniers of climates changing.
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep
Ah, how do you sleep at night
You live with straights who tell you, you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you’re gone you’re just another day
Ah, how do you sleep
Ah, how do you sleep at night
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they’ll see what you can do…
John may have been more right than he knew…
I prefer this Beatles lyric:
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
All right,
Yes, I always liked those lyrics — actual common sense in a not-very-common-sense time. Back before the group got fried one too many times.
Sir Paul makes a fabulous own goal:
The loudest, dumbest voices are without doybt the climate obsessed.
I understand how a musician understands climate data better than a guy like me, with a science PhD and 30 years in R&D.
OK, yes I lie. I don’t understand how he believes thermageddon is imminent. The data I see suggests nothing much is happening. Maybe I wasted those 30+ years.
You could have been a Rock Star!
Warmist minions are a strange breed – they typically have a soft degree in the humanities, majoring in English, Journalism, Sociology, Psychology, Gender Studies, Witchcraft, etc. and have no clue about the Scientific Method.
Nevertheless, warmist minions will scream their belief in man-made global warming catastrophism and climate change hysteria – all based on what they heard from their idiot friends on Facebook and Twitter or over a “Venti, Soy, Semi-Caf, No Foam Latte” at Starbucks – and they will verbally or physically assault anyone who disagrees with their imbecilic position.
Here’s some better ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-t9k7epIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0zKMlFl8k