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.
‘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.’
I thought all the icebergs had melted, Paul
Just expressing the privilege of billionaire socialists.
When socialists take over; the rich who have the most loose the most, the intellectuals get killed because they can see how wrong it is, and the rest get rounded up and put to slavery, sorry I mean work camps.
“Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
I couldn’t agree more. Every time I see a Leftist protest, this is the thought that pops in my head. It always some person (usually with a bullhorn) shouting out a stupid chant that is mindlessly repeated by the assembled mass of morons.
Since the like button is currently gone (at least on my browser), Reg, you’ll just have to settle for an old fashioned +1
Agreed. For the second time in my life the leftists are running amok, chanting inane slogans and damaging and destroying private as well as public property, and threatening lawfully elected public officials and private citizens alike with violence. Now after 50 years I finally have something good to say about the Chicago Seven and the other rioters in 67-68: at least they were not afraid to use their own names and were not cowardly hiding under black masks.
Not exactly sure why we’re referring to “reality” as climate denial here.
Seems like congress to me. (opposite of progress)
The Left continues to makes fools of themselves.
What’s hilarious, is when this “stupid” CAGW ho@x is officially disconfirmed, most Leftists will never apologize for all their vile lies, slander, and libelous screeds made against CAGW skeptics, and will simply call the CAGW ho@x, an honest mistake made by well-meaning scientists and politicians…
Since nothing will be learned from the most expensive Leftist ho@x in human history, another will occur in the future…
I agree with you Sam – but, as I suspect you know, this is NOT an honest mistake by honest scientists and honest politicians – it is deliberate fraud by liars and scoundrels.
Experience has taught us that the extremist leaders of the global warming / climate change movement are not interested in science OR the environment – theirs is a far-left political objective – to destroy the economy and take control, like they have done in over 100 countries around the world – see Venezuela and Zimbabwe for prime examples.
Frighten and stampede the sheeple, and promise them lots of free stuff, and the sheeple will believe you and vote for you – that is the left’s political model, and it works because half the population is of less-than-average intelligence. The sheeple typically vote for the left, because sheeple are really stupid.
Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, provides a history of the rise of eco-extremism, below. Moore says that the far-left political movement effectively annexed the green movement after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when pro-Soviet groups were discredited and needed to find a new power base for their far-left political agenda.
The extremists have succeeded. Governments, academia, the media and large corporations are all cowed into submission. Honest scientists have been ousted from their universities for speaking and writing the truth. Only a few tenured or retired professors and the occasional renegade dares to speak out, and the younger ones often use aliases for fear of retaliation.
It is long past time for all those who have been cowed into submission by the bullying of global warming extremists to stand strong for their convictions.
Despite increasing atmospheric CO2, there has been no dangerous global warming – this has been adequately proved by Christy and McNider (2017) and Lewis and Curry (2018), as summarized below. Climate is relatively INsensitive to increasing CO2.
Increased atmospheric CO2, from whatever cause. will at most drive minor, net-beneficial global warming, and significantly increased plant and crop yields.
The global warming crisis does not exist, except in the fevered minds of the sheeple and their corrupt leaders.
Best personal regards, Allan
REFERENCES:
THE RISE OF ECO-EXTREMISM
by Patrick Moore (1994)
http://ecosense.me/2012/12/30/key-environmental-issues-4/
[excerpt]
“Surprisingly enough the second event that caused the environmental movement to veer to the left was the fall of the Berlin Wall. Suddenly the international peace movement had a lot less to do. Pro-Soviet groups in the West were discredited. Many of their members moved into the environmental movement bringing with them their eco-Marxism and pro-Sandinista sentiments.”
THERE IS NO REAL GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS
by Allan MacRae (2018)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/07/study-claims-global-warming-induced-by-ancient-farmers-may-have-staved-off-ice-age/#comment-2451937
[excerpt]
1. CLIMATE SENSITIVITY TO INCREASING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 IS LOW – ONLY ABOUT 1C/DOUBLING
Christy and McNider (2017) estimate climate sensitivity at 1.1C/doubling for UAH Lower Tropospheric (LT) temperatures.
Lewis and Curry (2018) estimate climate sensitivity at 1.6C/doubling for ECS and 1.3C/doubling for TCR, using Hatcrut4 surface temperatures (ST). These surface temperatures probably have a significant warming bias due to poor siting of measurements, UHI effects, other land use changes, etc.
Both analyses are “full-earth-scale”, which have the least room for errors.
Both are “UPPER BOUND” estimates of sensitivity, derived by assuming that ~ALL* warming is due to increasing atmospheric CO2. It is possible, in fact probable, that less of the warming is driven by CO2, and most of it is natural variation.
(*Note – Christy and McNider make allowance for major volcanoes El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991+)
The slightly higher sensitivity values in Curry and Lewis are due to the higher warming estimates of Hadcrut4 surface temperatures versus UAH LT temperatures.
Practically speaking, however, these sensitivity estimates are similar, about 1C/doubling. and are far too low to support any runaway or catastrophic manmade global warming.
Higher estimates of climate sensitivity have no credibility. There is no real global warming crisis.
Increased atmospheric CO2, from whatever cause will at most drive minor, net-beneficial global warming, and significantly increased plant and crop yields.
CONCLUSION: The total impact if increasing atmospheric CO2 is hugely beneficial to humanity and the environment. Any scientist or politician who contradicts this statement is destructive, acting against the well-being of humanity and the environment.
2. EARTH IS CLEARLY COLDER-THAN-OPTIMUM FOR HUMANITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Earth is significantly colder-than-optimum for humanity and the environment. Twenty times more people die from cold than die from heat – about 2 million Excess Winter Deaths every year worldwide.*
In the USA, Excess Winter Deaths average about one hundred thousand souls per year, equivalent to two 9-11’s per week for 17 weeks every year!
Even more startling is the preliminary estimate of Excess Winter Deaths in the UK – about 48,000 this past winter! The UK suffered about HALF the average annual Excess Winter Deaths of the USA, but the UK has only ONE-FIFTH the USA’s population. High energy prices, or “Heat or Eat” as it is termed in the UK, is becoming a significant cause of premature deaths of the elderly and the poor.
Anti-fracking groups in the UK, many of whom are phony-green Marxist fronts, have cost Britain dearly in lost billions of pounds sterling and hundreds of thousands of needlessly-shortened lives.
CONCLUSION: Excess Winter Deaths are increased by foolish green energy policies like mandatory wind and solar power in the grid, which produce little useful (dispatchable) energy and drive up energy costs, preferentially killing off the elderly and the poor.
A few more thoughts:
3. GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM IS ANTI-HUMAN AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENT
False global warming alarmism causes the enormous human suffering and death in the developing world, where green fanaticism has prevented the installation of cheap, reliable, abundant energy systems.
This is frustrating, because some of us knew that the global warming scam was false nonsense as early as ~1985, based on the evidence available then. Since that time, the evidence of global warming fraud has grown more and more credible, and yet this multi-trillion dollar-per-year scam continues.
We published in 2002 that the global warming crisis did not exist in reality, and that green energy schemes would not be adequate to replace fossil fuels. Both these statements are now proven to be correct, for anyone who objectively examines the evidence.
CONCLUSION: Anyone who continues to support global warming alarmism and schemes to abate fossil fuels is seriously deluded at best, and more correctly is guilty of crimes against humanity. The overwhelming evidence is that increasing atmospheric CO2 will lead to improved plant and crop growth, and any resulting warming will be mild and beneficial.
4. GREEN EXTREMISTS ARE THE GREAT KILLERS OF OUR AGE
Green extremism started with the banning of DDT from ~1972 to ~2002. The ban on DDT DOUBLED the number of deaths from malaria, more than half of which were children age 4 and under whose deaths peaked at almost 1 million per year – just babies –and half of these deaths were easily preventable.
Add to this the numbers of deaths due to the global warming scam and the “phony war” against increasing atmospheric CO2 and the total green death toll is in the tens of millions, similar to the number of needless deaths caused in the 20th Century by leftist icons Hitler, Stalin or Mao.
CONCLUSION: Leftist Green extremists are the greatest killers of our time – rivaling the death tolls of the greatest sociopathic killers of the 20th Century. Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
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* Reference:
COLD WEATHER KILLS 20 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE AS HOT WEATHER
By Joseph D’Aleo and Allan MacRae, September 4, 2015
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
QUOTATIONS FROM GREEN-AGENDA.COM
http://www.green-agenda.com/
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
– Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation.”
– Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
“One America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
– Jacques Cousteau
Sir Paul, I am saddened to see that you have lost touch with ordinary people. When did that happen? 1964?
Boring druggie. Guess there are many things he doesn’t understand.
Lemmy never tried to tell me how to live.
I was at a Motorhead concert a couple years back and Lemmy has a chat to the audience between songs. “We’ve got a new album out, go out and steal it”.
He did correct himself and suggest they better not steal it 🙂 But it sure was funny.
“Despite all the warnings” that proved to be incorrect. If he doesn’t understand a skeptic, his misunderstanding is misplaced.
Sir Paul’s celebrity offers him an ability to influence public opinion. I would suggest to him that if life on earth hangs in the balance then he has a moral obligation to not be lazy. He needs to take the time to do what others have not — actually understand why skeptics are skeptical. Learn about the objections from those who have the objections instead of from people who just think we’re all stupid knuckle-draggers who want to burn the earth to save a buck.
CAGW advocates and activists are too lazy to even understand the positions and arguments. They blindly trust the views of others without understanding them.
McCartney didn’t seem to have any intelligent arguments. Just complained about “climate change denial”, whatever that means. Nobody denies the climate changes. Skeptics are just skeptical how much it is caused by man, and how much by nature, and what the effects will be. McCartney just shows that he doesn’t undestand the skeptics position. Can’t say I blame him though, our “objective” media hasn’t been very good at presenting the skeptic viewpoint to the public.
Put McCartney and Ted Nugent in the same room. McCartney would be whimpering in a corner in seconds…..
Another high school drop out lecturing us dummies about sciency stuff. How droll.
This from they guy who actually wrote “In this ever changing world in which we live in”.
At least I don’t deny grammar.
“Those who shout the loudest/May not always be the smartest.”
And who is shouting the loudest? why it’s none other than the alarmists and their useful idiots like Sir Paul.
He’s just a Blue Greenie. Blue Greenies are the ones who tried to take over ThinkLand, enslave the people to their Warmunist ideology and forcing expensive, unreliable energy on them. The Chief Greenie, AlGore sent the dreaded Flying Iceberg out to defeat the brave band of Skeptics and Climate Rationalists resisting them, but they discovered that without the “F”, it just became the Lying Iceberg. So, the Blue Greenies are losing the battle now, but they keep fighting anyway.
“We all live in a Carbon Submarine, Carbon Submarine, Carbon Submarine…”
‘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.’”
But Sir Paul, how can the captain be sailing the boat into an iceberg, we’ve been assured that all the ice in the artic will have melted away?
Eric Worral
Good last paragraph!
Love some of his music, but anytime I hear him talk he seems rather dimwitted. Not just with this subj. But, oh well. He’s a lefty and naive at that.
“People who deny climate change… I just think it’s the most stupid thing ever,” says the star.
Sounds like he is a dedicated follower of fashion—e.g., the Guardian. That’s the blinkered perspective such a reader would have.
All he is admitting is how ignorant and uninformed he is. If we are supposed to be impressed by that, it’s not happening.
I used to have a friend who would tell me to ‘listen to what they’re saying’, while he played all these old rock albums – to the point where he would actually tailor his relationships based on something he’d heard in a rock lyric.
I asked why anyone would take the advice of some junkie burn-out.
This was the same guy, by the way, who told me it was the SUN, not the moon, that rose in the east and set in the west – because the moon orbited Earth, and Earth orbited the sun.
Remember when ‘knighthood’ required some form of heroism?
Joel,
Lots of deserving figures were never knighted, to include Darwin.
For instance, Tolkien wasn’t knighted, but awarded the honor of the next step down, ie Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), third of the five classes of the Order.
He served in WWI at the Somme in July 1916, but was probably saved from death by contracting trench fever in a lousy German dugout. Invalided home, he never returned to the Western Front, so lethal to junior officers. He didn’t consider himself brave, let alone a hero.
And yet, we have ‘Sir’ Paul McCartney.
Sir Paul is a Knight Bachelor, which ranks below knights or dames of the chivalric orders, but above the non-knight members and commanders of the OBE and other orders. He’s a Member of the OBE (MBE), the lowest class, but also a Companion of Honour (CH).
Sir Peter Jackson, director of the movie version of Tolkien’s books, is a Knight in the New Zealand Order of Merit. Go figure.
I guess to be ennobled these days requires making the big bucks in the entertainment industry. Fantasy novelists need not apply. Remarkably, despite her many hono(u)rs, Jo Rowling still isn’t a Dame.
Saki wrote a short story about how the undeserving “musical” lyricist got a knighthood and the other battle-hero son didn’t. I forget its name.
McCartney doesn’t understand climate deniers because he’s hooked on the feelings and has no time for the facts.
Suddenly, he’s not half the man he used to be
does he needs a place (aka safe space) to hide away?
Oh dear!
More proof drug taking leads to premature dementia.
If MaCartney is so worried why doesn’t he put a wind farm on his Rye estate?
Heh.
A few years ago I caught a British a capella group called Artisan or something, who said that although they consider themselves “greenies”, they hated seeing wind turbines up on “their” beautiful moors. See: Kennebunkport, Lack of Turbines Near.
Oh, and at another of their shows in a small fishing village in Nova Scotia, one went on about how terrible to turn a nice fish into a fish stick (the only major employer in the village was, you guessed it, a fish processing plant).