But if you're 10, how much global "warming" have you actually experienced?

Focus Earth: November 29, 2008: Growing Global : Planet Green

This week, Bob Woodruff and the Focus Earth team investigate what it is like to grow up with global warming. From the opinions of young students in Brooklyn to campaigns to fight global warming initiated and led by kids, to a United Nations project showcasing young artist's calls for a solution to the problem of climate change, Focus Earth looks at the youth response to one of the world's most pressing problems.

First, Bob Woodruff sits down with students from third, fourth, and fifth grade classes at a school in Brooklyn. They tell him their hopes and fears for a world in the grips of a climate crisis and offer their words for the world to hear. Then, they join the Focus Earth team on a tour of the new climate change exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

After hearing the opinions of one group of youth growing up in an age of global warming, Terry McCarthy reports on the efforts of kids across the United States to raise awareness of climate change. He visits a number of youth-led groups campaigning to fight global warming and discovers that there are a surprising number of young people involved. The motivation is easy to understand: their generation will suffer most from the effects of climate change.

Another reason that young folks buy into environmental scams: they haven't yet seen many of them come and go

[Stossel] I`ve covered this over the years. Killer bees were going to get us, SARS, anthrax, mad cow disease, saccharin, Nutrasweet, scares one after the other. Cell phones are going to give you brain cancer. Everyone was convinced about that. We just like to be scared. It`s why we go to horror movies and now we believe Al Gore and global warming.”