Dee:  So, do you believe in Global Warming?
Melissa (12-year-old): Oh, yes!
Dee:  Oh?  Do you think that people are responsible?
Melissa:  Uh huh.  They put all that junk in the air and it has to be causing the world to get warmer.
Dee: Is that so?  That junk is called carbon dioxide and of all the carbon dioxide that is going into the air, how much of it do you think that people are adding?
Melissa: I dunno… Maybe 75 percent?
Dee: 75%?  What if I told you it was less than 5% and the rest was all natural?
Melissa:  Well how about all the polar bears that are drowning?  The ice cap is melting.
Dee: Ummmm… How many polar bears have drowned?
Melissa: I dunno, but they’re going extinct.
Dee:  Oh, really?  Polar bear population had doubled in the last few of decades.
Melissa: You are making me mad.
Dee: Why is that?
Melissa: Cause you are.
Dee: OK, so where did you learn that the polar bears are dying?
Melissa: A movie they showed at the school.

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