Watch Six-Year-Old’s Gripping Video on Climate Change

Montana boy travels to the White House with his video on how climate change is affecting his family and community.

From partly bare hillsides once covered in snow to intensifying forest fires, Montana first grader Noah Gue says he’s seen climate change “with my own eyes.”

The six-year-old looks into the camera in a compelling three-minute video that his parents produced, and talks about how rising temperatures are affecting his family—his dad’s a firefighter—and the landscapes near his home in Bozeman.

“Glaciers are receding and could soon be gone forever … Some animals may go extinct in the next century … It’s time for the world to see conservation through a kid’s eyes,” he says in “Noah’s Project,” which will be honored Friday at the White House. (Millennials also voice concern about climate change.)

The child’s appeal comes as President Barack

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