College Republicans mock Global Warming with 'Global Cooling' beach parties

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.crnc.org/index.php?content=beach

Snow Cone Stands & Global Warming Beach Parties

NEWS: College Republicans' Beach Parties Draw the Attention of the Wall Street Journal...

Politics and Economics
Friday, May 26th, 2006

WASHINGTON WIRE, by John Harwood

"As Gore promotes global-warming movie, a Hillary Rodham Clinton advisor taunts, 'Run, Al, run!!' ... College Republicans ridicule the movie with Global Warming Beach Parties..."

Run a “Global Cooling” Snow Cone Stand

Freeze out cataclysmic environmental scare tactics with a little humor. The Oklahoma University College Republicans gave out free snow cones to students for an event they called "Global Cooling Day."

Stage an event like this one to grab the attention of your campus and raise awareness on the real facts of the global warming phenomenon. Engage with students and debunk some of the myths and cool the hyperbole surrounding the issue.

OU CRs simultaneously used the event to promote their first meeting, sign-up members, and sell CR shirts. A tent and tables were set up at the busiest spot on campus, and OU CRs gave away nearly 1,000 snow cones each day.

Prior to your "Global Cooling Day" event, arm your College Republican chapter with solid talking points on the issue, and then kick-back and enjoy the sun. The facts are on your side.

[pinky]

Not too many College Republicans are science majors, eh?

[Regis Philbin]

The science is undeniable...

[pinky]

Can you show me the pictures of the polar ice caps that indicate they're growing?

[DoubleEdgeSword]

The science is undeniable...

Which science is that? The science that overwhelmingly agrees that global warming is a real and threatening phenomenon, or the "science" that says everyone is screaming "the sky is falling?"

[pinky]

Or maybe the science used here:

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1147

[Richard Tafoya]

Note that most of the talking points that the CNRC site refers to reside at heartland.org, a public relations site funded by ExxonMobile to refute global warming theories with "facts" generated by the American Petroleum Institute.

A sample "fact" entry from their "Instant Experts Guide to Global Warming":
http://www.heartland.org/pdf/ieguide.pdf
"Some environmentalists call for a "save-the-day" strategy to 'stop global warming,' saying it is better to be safe than sorry. Such a position seems logical until we stop to think: Immediate action wouldn't make us any safer, but it would surely make us poorer. And being poorer would make us less safe."

The CNRC also links to talking points a CEI.org, the site of the Competitive Enterprise Institue, an orgaminzation funded by ExxonMobile and most major oil corporations to challenge government policy and legislation that acknowledges that global warming is real.

On their list of accomplishments:
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=2
4 June, 2002
Advised Bush to distance himself from EPA report which stated, for the first time from a US government agency, that climate change is real. And Bush did so.
Source: C Horner, Washington Times 04 June 2002.

2 August, 2002
Wrote to President Bush discouraging him from attending the August 2002 UN Summit on Sustainable Development. Bush did not attend.
Source: "Corporate-funded Lobbyists Aimed to Sabotage Johannesburg Summit," Africa News, 8/19/2002