The earth is rapidly warming, and after four decades of research by the world's best climate scientists, we know with a very high level of scientific confidence that relentless human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses is the primary contributor to the rapid warming of the last half century.
Any teabagger still desperately clinging with a death grip to the "It's a hoax!" axiom does not have a leg to stand on.
A 16 year old girl, as well as every millennial on the planet, should be expected to be informed about this, and at a minimum be concerned and have a tangible stake in this.
Climate Deniers overwhelmingly are Old White Guys who will be long dead and gone before this turns into an intractable and serious global environmental problem later this century - if we adopt a "do nothing" attitude . I do not believe Elderly White Guys think this is their fight, nor do they have a stake in it. They do not want to spend money on the problem. And everything I have learned about the rightwing in a 20 year message board career is that their ideology and their personal disposition is almost entirely predicated on a self-interest and self-serving attitude about humanity, the nation, the environment, and the global community,