College Republicans Call for Beach Parties to Mock Global Warming

[rodeodance]

I got this as an email.
Nothing seems to 'get to' certain groups. Mocking global warming! I hope they get sand in places undesirable!

BushGreenwatch wrote:

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> June 1, 2006 | Back Issues
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> College Republicans Call for Beach Parties to Mock Global Warming
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> Whatever happened to the Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt, a political party distinguished by its forward-looking environmental policy? Today, we have the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) urging its 200,000 student members on 1500 campuses to hold beach parties to mock the threat of global warming. If this is representative of the generation that is going to inherit the earth, the earth is in trouble big-time.
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> Indeed, deriding climate change is the last thing we need from the age group that could well have the last best chance to atone for the environmental sins of the past.
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> So the question becomes: is the CRNC’S stance of self-destructive denial a preview of the future identity of the Republican Party? If CRNC’S call to revelry has any traction, you’ve got to wonder what in heaven’s name is being taught in colleges these days regarding science, moral values, and social responsibility. The CRNC derives its dismissive view of global warming from a small clique of increasingly discredited scientists who claim the climate change threat is an exercise in scaremongering. It is a claim that is refuted by the weight of evidence, and subsequently by a consensus of scientists (including leading climatologists) throughout the world.
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> Global warming may not signal the end of civilization, but nor should it be the target of ridicule. Responsible political leaders cannot afford to sit idly by and wait for proof of a false alarm while the average global temperature is rising with rapidity unprecedented in memory. They don’t have the luxury of wallowing in pedantry at the inconclusiveness of the evidence when ice is melting at a record clip at both poles. They would be derelict to procrastinate because of the complexity of the issue. Uncertainty is no excuse for apathy, and reflection without action is not the answer, when significant impacts from climate change are being abruptly felt by man, beast, and plants in many places around the world.
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> Facing such a potentially calamitous condition, governments have a moral obligation to implement whatever cost-effective precautionary measures are available. These are measures (e.g. energy conservation, reforestation) that standing alone make sense even if global warming turns out not to be as menacing as originally thought.
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> As for college age Republicans, if they blindly follow the titular head of their party and thumb their noses at reality, let us pray they don’t end up in political office. On a more contemporary note, should the Republican students choose to frolic on a beach to celebrate rising sea levels and killer heat waves, let’s hope they don’t forget their sunblock.
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[warrens]

1. If they wait a few years

They can have their parties at my oceanfront properties in Arizona and Nevada.

[fasttense]

2. All that pampered white skin exposed is surely going to get burned. n/t

[billybob537]

3. If they are serious

then they wont need any sunblock just like when I was a child. I would spend all day on the beach all summer long, no-one ever had sun block.

[man4allcats]

4. Yet more evidence, as if that were necessary, that the quality

of education in America is declining.

[SpiralHawk]

5. ATTENTION MILITARY RECRUITERS

Get thee to the beaches -- Chickenhawk republicon youths galore, ready to swallow the WMD lies of pResident AWOL...

Get 'em while they're young and dumb

[YOY]

6. A beach party with the college pubs?

What's that smell?





I know I smell something...but what?





I know! It's the distinct melange of roofies and skin cancer!!!

[slor]

7. They SHOULD go play in the sand...

in Iraq.

[lpbk2713]

8. Beach parties? .... Republicans?? .... I just can't envision that.

Those pasty white bubble-butts will burn to a crisp in no time.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. kick

[hadrons]

10. let’s hope they DO forget their sunblock

[Marr]

11. Is this the only sort of thing College Republicans do? Seriously-

the only time I ever hear about these people is when they're pulling some kind of gradeschool stunt. And it's never about doing something positive- never a pursuit of their own ideals. These "events" are always just about mocking people who *are* trying to do something positive; mocking the ideals of others.

It's so derivative and childish.

[tll]

14. Yep.

Another prime example of W-inspired mature and thoughtful discourse.

They can't make that mature and thoughtful argument so they retreat to to the sort of puerile crap more at home around a junior high cafeteria table.

Republicans don't do satire well; their stabs at 'humor' tend to trip and fall well short of the target.

[gratuitous]

15. It IS derivative and childish

But this is where the GOP trains its future Lee Atwaters and Karl Roves. Puerile stunts in college lead to bigger, more sophisticated rat fucks 10, 20 or 30 years down the line. Then they get caught or get cancer, issue a lot of self-serving non-apology apologies, and get in line to tutor the next generation of swine.

[Loge23]

12. Doug Neidermeyer's Big Beach Bash

I suppose this "development" is understandable. After all, they own most of the beach front McMansions.
Party like there ain't no tomorrow! 'Cause there is no tomorrow!
(...and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, President Gore)

[LiberalEsto]

13. Someone send them some super-itchy poison ivy

A few bushels of the kind that's becoming itchier because of global warming.

How I'd love to see them dance & scratch

[Tesha]

16. Live it up now, smartasses. The future won't be quite so rosy. (NT)

[deFaultLine]

17. One the bright side...

I see that there is at least some kind of acknowledgement about Global Warming. They've moved out of the denial stage. For years they were denying that it was even happening, now they are trying to make it look like a good thing.