[DAILYCALLER] Environmentalists are now using kids to "school" politicians on the science behind man-made global warming.Ohfergawdssakes.
On Tuesday, six high schoolers from states "hard hit" by global warming will go to Capitol Hill to try and convince politicians skeptical of man-made global warming that it's real and it's impacting peoples' lives today.
I'm sure Nebaska is "hard hit" by Global Warming™. Remember last July when Omaha was scorched off the face of the earth?
"What I know about climate change is that it's real, it's man-made and there's scientific evidence to back it up," Helen Winston, a high schooler from Nebraska, said in a video produced by the liberal campaign group Avaaz.
What I knew about real, scientific stuff when I was in high school was chemistry class. I had a lot of misplaced arrogance, like most teenagers, but I don't think I'd have presumed to lecture my senator or representative on what somebody told me.
"Climate change impacts my life most directly through sea level rise," echoed Jack Levy from Florida. He was joined by Georgia teen Jeremiah Thompson who said that "human beings are a major cause in climate change."
Ah, yes. I remember when Florida sank into the ocean, followed by South Carolina and large parts of Georgia, though actually I think they're better off without the Atlanta traffic. It's because we heat everything with coal or wood or lignite, y'know. I power my car on coal, too. It needs the high-sulphur stuff, otherwise I get a lot of engine knock.
"I think the dumbest thing I've heard is Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe saying that man cannot change climate," Levy added, as the video cut to recent footage of Inhofe throwing a snowball on the Senate floor.
Hey, Levy! How many feet in a mile? How many miles across is the U.S.A. at its narrowest point? What's that in feet? What's the population of the U.S.? How many feet of breathable air above the continental U.S.? Up to what altitude? What's above the stratosphere and how did it get there? What happens if it falls? How many of those cubic feet can you, personally, damage with your barbecue grill?
"If you have any sort of education, you have to be willing to look at the world and think about it objectively and see that there is indeed climate change going," Winston said. "Denying it is, I think, detrimental and possibly dangerous."
I have something of an education and I think Winston's dumb. Perhaps when she's pushing seventy Helen will be reading the emissions of some other child and thinking "you sure are sure of yourself for somebody who's never seen the elephant."
(All right, Helen. Don't get upset. It's what we call a colloquialism. She's too young to have heard it: A cowboy (other versions it's an Indian, never a Native American™ nor a Hindoo) goes to the circus and sees the elephant. He looks it over from nose to tail, walking around it six or seven times. Finally he leaves. "What'dya think?" the barker asks him on the way out. "There ain't no sech animal," sez the cowboy/Indian/not a Hindoo.)
Levy, Thompson and Winston will target four Republican senators on their hill visits Tuesday within their respective states. Other high schoolers will target Republicans from North Carolina -- a state that recently lost a Democratic Senate seat in the 2014 election.
Keep it up. They can lose more.
