Story highlights Clinton sets a 10-year target

Blasts climate change skeptics

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) Hillary Clinton pledged Sunday that as president she would put the United States on a path toward generating enough renewable energy to power every home in the country by 2027 - ten years after she would hypothetically take office.

In a video posted to her campaign website, Clinton knocked Republicans for refusing "to accept the settled science of climate change" and cast her push as a fight for children and grandchildren.

"I am just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain and I know what is happening in the world is going to have a big effect on my daughter and especially my granddaughters," Clinton said, using a line she often delivers at campaign events. "You don't have to be a scientist to take on this urgent challenge that threatens us all. You just have to be willing to act."

The video - titled "Stand for Reality" - featured a slate of quotes from Republicans on climate change, including when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Esquire Magazine in 2009, "I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist." The slate also included quotes from Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.

"You don't have to be a scientist to accept scientific evidence," Clinton tweeted. "Climate change is real and we must act. -H."

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