Young Conservatives Press GOP On Global Warming; No, Wait, Pressing On "Messaging" & "Engagement"

[hatrack]

Conservatives hoping to convince Republicans to care about climate change have a new angle: Do it for the kids. It's the kind of moral argument that's long resonated in environmental debates, but in this case, it's a largely political calculus.

If the GOP doesn't start talking up its own solutions to climate change more effectively, advocates argue, they risk losing out on younger voters who care about the issue and don't deny the science that shows greenhouse gases are warming the planet. That was the message the American Conservation Coalition, a campus eco-right group, was pushing at a "fly-in" day on Capitol Hill this week, which saw students from across the country present a new set of climate polling to Republican offices.

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The ACC students on the Hill during the last two days said they didn't hear any climate denial from the congressional offices they visited. The roughly 50 activists met with representatives for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, among others. On the House side, their meetings included the offices of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, Rep. John Curtis of Utah, and Energy and Commerce ranking member Greg Walden of Oregon.

But they also stressed they weren't asking for any specific policies. Rather, they said they asked for better Republican engagement on climate issues, pointing to a WPA Intelligence poll commissioned by ACC and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a conservative clean energy group. It found 67% of millennial voters believe the party needs to do more on climate change, while about half believe that ignoring the issue will harm the party. "We're trying to tell them there's a huge voting bloc out there that really cares about these issues that really aren't being addressed publicly by the party," Ian Baucke, a student at George Washington University, said after a meeting in Ernst's office.

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https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060789485

[DetlefK]

1. That's the republican solution to everything: "Better messaging."

IIRC after the 2012 election, the GOP tasked a committee with finding out what went wrong, why they lost the election.

Their findings?

Conservative policies are the bestest policies in the world!
The voters have either never heard of them or are simply too stupid to understand them!
We need better messaging!

[bronxiteforever]

2. GOP rich kids start lying young don't they!

On the subject of global warming, Ernst has stated: "I don't know the science behind climate change, I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact from whether it's manmade or not", and believes that any regulatory role by the government to address it needs to be "very small. Ernst has proposed eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency and criticized its interpretation of the Clean Water Act as applied to farms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

Sen. Tom Cotton
"The simple fact is that for the last 16 years the earth's temperature has not warmed," Cotton said at a 2014 energy panel. "That's the facts... Now, there's no doubt that the temperature has risen over the past 150, 200 years. It's most likely that human activity has contributed to some of that."
https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-and-republicans-congress-global-warming-2019-2#arizona-3

Sen. Roy Blunt
"There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth," Blunt said in 2009.

https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-and-republicans-congress-global-warming-2019-2#missouri-20

[mountain grammy]

3. Oh really? Is "Chinese hoax" not working for them?

Conservatives conserving nothing.