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Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com)

EmagGeek writes A recent lawsuit against Obama alleges he has a legal duty to act against climate change, and young climate activists, including 15-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh, are taking him to task on it. CNN reports: "Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh became a climate change activist at age 6 when he saw an environmental documentary. He asked his mom to find a way for him to speak at a rally. Now 15, the long-haired, hip-hop-savvy Coloradan is one of 21 young activists joining climate scientist James Hansen in suing the Obama administration for failing to ditch fossil fuels. 'It's basically a bunch of kids saying you're not doing your job,' he told me here at the U.N. COP21 climate change summit in Paris. 'You're failing, you know. F-minus. We're holding you accountable for your lack of action.'"

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  1. Climate Cultism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    James Hansen should be immediately separated from these children.

    The man is an absolute climate lunatic.

  2. Re:15 years old? by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WTF does the Keystone pipeline have to do with climate change? The Canadians are selling the oil to China, anyway, it'll just take a different route.

    Nothing, it actually just means that MORE oil will be burned moving the Canadian oil, rather than less.

    Stopping the pipeline actually HARMS the environment.

  3. Re:15 years old? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We can indeed stop driving gas-powered cars, and power them and your house from carbon-neutral energy sources. Talk about defeatism...

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  4. Re:Idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This kid started giving speeches and organizing rallies at 6. He's the creation of an adult. It took a while to figure out who, because they changed his name from Roske-Martinez to something Aztec. His mother is executive director of Earth Guardians and her name is Tamara Roske. If you Google her, you can see she's the activist behind all of this. Oh, and she wants you to pay for his high technology. Maybe they should get him some more vegetable scraps for his compost pile instead.

  5. Re:15 years old? by GodelEscherBlecch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Whenever the stark reality of data flies in the face of warmists agenda they get hostile and to ad hominem.

    That was quite masterful the way you used satire to demonstrate the same logical fallacy you were decrying. And with a dash of strawman thrown in, too - are you a former Colbert writer?

    I also love the way you use ridiculous hyperbole to lampoon the layman who thinks he knows so much about such a vastly complicated issue that he is fully confident in calling it black or white, and calling anybody an idiot who does not agree with the stark color of his vehemently stated but argumentatively void comments.

    The more I read your post, the more I think you might just be this century's Voltaire - a true master. I mean you lit this fucker up like a winning bingo card:

    https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...

    I'm truly impressed. A+.

  6. Larval form of a hipster? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is this the larval form of a hipster? Smug little twat.

    Typing his retarded name creates more carbon dioxide than driving a typical car twenty miles.

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