The Ad Council has a new series of global warming radio and TV ads — using children to pluck at the heartstrings of Americans unpersuaded that climate catastrophe is just around the corner.

In one, a man standing on train tracks notes that “some say irreversible consequences [of global warming] are 30 years away.” As a train approaches him from behind, he says “30 years? That won’t affect me,” and walks off — revealing the little girl, all confused looks and blonde curls, standing behind him on the tracks. [This actor sure is versatile — that said, I much prefer his Snickers commercial.]

Watch the ad here — or their other ad, “Tick,” here. Both ads, supported by the Robertson Foundation, send folks to the Environmental Defense Fund website, www.fightglobalwarming.com. You can find their radio spots there, too.

Ah, the Environmental Defense Fund — that bastion of sound science in the public interest. The EDF website actually boasts of its “pioneering efforts to eradicate DDT.” Malaria has killed millions upon millions of African children in the time since. It would be funny, if it weren’t so perverse.