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Bernie Sanders to climate skeptic High School student: ‘You’re wrong’

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/sanders-climate-change-skeptic-town-hall/

Bernie Sanders has made fighting climate change a central part of his message, and he’s not about to hold back when challenged by someone who questions the scientific consensus that human-caused emissions are behind global warming — even if it’s a teenager.

The Vermont senator, old enough to be the grandfather to many of the attendees at a town hall at Roosevelt High School Thursday, was asked by a 17-year-old about his position on climate change. She said that she was not convinced it was caused by humans.

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“I haven’t seen any actual scientific evidence that global warming is actually happening,” she said. “It’s only very recent. So I’d like to know why you think it’s happening.”

Sanders respond with a polite but firm: “You’re wrong.”

“It is already causing devastating problems in our country and the world. That is what the scientists are saying,” he told her.

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