Anthony Watts’ excellent site posted this, but it’s worth repeating here. Eloise is (purportedly and I assume really) a 14-year-old Australian girl who is disgusted with the Anthropogenic Global Warming propaganda, and specifically (with some hints from her father) that AGW is being offered as a fact, not a theory, and an unproved theory at that. She writes:

“Well, today in Year 9 Religion we were discussing Justice. First we talked about ridiculous fuel prices and why. Of course when my lovely teacher asked if there were any other injustices in the world I stuck my hand up pointing out AGW. I told my class about Al Gore and how he’s a hypocrite and scaremongers people with his manipulative ways and how it is unjust that he be allowed to preach to people that AGW is a fact, without addressing the “Inconvenient Truth” that AGW is naught but an unproven theory.

“Then we did a vote on who thought AGW was real (man-made) and who thought it was a myth (natural). About 9 voted for myth and 4 for reality. The rest of my class was undecided. I brought up the Carbon Trading scheme about how Gore is head of the company and therefore has the biggest commission.

“Also the Polar Bears, who can forget about Santa’s neighbours? I pointed out that the polar bears are
in fact not dying and that they are increasing in number. That just because someone says they are, it doesn’t have to be true. Even if AGW was real and the polar ice caps were really melting the polar bears can easily swim for up to 50 miles which they do anyway, to hunt for food.

“Its really annoying that people won’t be open minded. In all reality if someone came up to me tomorrow saying that AGW was real and that we needed to act now, and they actually produced facts that were reliable
and with backup, I would change my mind. The way our brains should work, we should always ask questions. We should always ask why, and how and if the answers aren’t up to scratch we have the right to be skeptical.

“All I ask is to ask questions, don’t let me tell you what to think, look up a bunch of reliable links on the internet and judge for yourself.”

It’s hard to say whether this is a “real” site or not — could it be an adult posing as a kid?– but it makes good points. You can find Eloise’s website at http://kidsagainstagw.com.

Anthony Watts’ post is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/10/kids-against-anthropongenic-global-warming/#comments.