1ºAlyssa Roberts - if you - personally - know anything about our previous ice ages, it's because you acquired that information from academic work that was done by other people. You don't know about our geological history because you divined that information, you don't know about it because of your ancestral memory, your first hand observations, and certainly didn't do that research yourself. You don't have a direct pipeline to the truth, and God does not whisper in your ear. Anything you know about previous ice ages comes from scientific research that was done by people who spent their lives focused on a specific field of study and were able to piece together a thorough, specific narrative describing the history of our planet. You seem to trust scientific research enough to form an opinion about the severity of our current situation, yet you completely disregard the massive amount of research that tells you that climate change is, in fact, a biggie.
If you want to live in the sunshine of your ignorance, fine. Don't learn what is happening on the only known planet capable of supporting life, and keep taking for granted our modern society that was brought to you by the greatest minds of our species. But if you could please - please - refrain from using technology you don't understand to amplify falsehoods in a subject you also don't understand, that would be great.
2ºDon Cameron I could have articulated that better. I’m just referring to the size and the variability in the weather that is happening all over the planet currently. A lot of places are going from extreme drought to extreme flooding, and it is going to make weather forecasting, especially long-term forecasting, a lot harder to nail down. there are a lot of discussions online amongst meteorologists about all of this. I see a lot of people saying we should build water pipe lines all over the country, but it simply won’t work. Infrastructure to move water could easily enough be built in certain places, but it’s almost impossible right now to know exactly what’s going to happen in 5 or 10 or 20 years. What once was wet can very easily and quickly become dry. this is what my post was referencing.
3ºJohn Meholick I see with my own eyes what the scientists warned would happen happening. Most others do as well. There’s no other reason for the climate to be changing this rapidly. There hasn’t been an asteroid hit and there isn’t volcanism happening around the world that would be responsible for the climate changing this quickly naturally. You don’t know more than the overwhelming majority of scientists. I’m sorry that you think you know more than them as a non-scientist. Must be nice to be smarter than the experts are. Do you also go to your doctor and challenge any diagnosis they make?
4ºMichael Houlihan I didn’t say anything like that. I didn’t say anything about giving up. However, these water pipelines that people keep suggesting are simply impractical.
The “machine“ you’re referencing might be a solution for an individual household, but cannot be adapted on a scale large enough to provide water for everyone, including agriculture and industry.
The best thing we can do to try to mitigate the worst of these issues is to minimize the amount of carbon and other greenhouse gasses we put into the atmosphere. we’ve already dug ourselves into a big hole regarding this, and it will take a few decades to start turning things around. If we want humanity to continue, it’s a necessary step.
5ºDavid T Jolliff You can call BS all you want. There are countless examples of how the change in the climate is disrupting life - human life, plant life, and animal life.
You may not feel you have been directly affected but there are more than 7 billion people on the planet, and a good portion of us has been affected.
The burning of fossil fuels has made obvious differences and we all pay for it via property insurance rates.
Not only do the changes affect the earth’s dynamic systems - jet stream, ocean currents, etc., but they affect our health. The asthma rates , for example, near coal fired plants, have been an issue for decades.
It is time to care about our fellow citizens and global neighbors.
6ºAlyssa Roberts why do so many people who have no background or experience in these subjects think they know all about them? Do you even know how many ice ages this planet has had? How the cycles of glaciation and interglacial cycles work? The fact is, we should be transitioning to a colder climate right now based on the natural cycles of this planet. But the exact opposite is happening. Do you have any idea what’s going on in the Arctic right now? What’s happened to the polar jetstream?   do you understand how this affects weather further south? And, you’re wrong - it’s a huge deal. 
7ºNoreen Bryan the US alone burns 20 million barrels of oil a day. That level of burn is not mere ants on a hill, that is massive co2 production, year over year, without an equal reduction. The earth naturally balanced, change was slow over hundreds of thousands of years. We have removed the balance and are rapidly changing the environment. You willingly choose to ignore the science so you can sleep soundly knowing you are driving your V8 to work tomorrow. Why make a change that would mean altering your life style, when you can quietly ignore the reality and tuck yourself into your fairytale.
8ºNoreen Bryan the fact that there have always been floods, does not mean we are not changing our climates in adverse ways.
The climate change we are effecting is accelerating the drought flood cycle, and making the droughts longer with short massive rains that flood occurring during the drought. The rain is destructive and not helpful. The long period slow rains that have feed the area for centuries are less common. The flooding we face now is more common and more destructive.
I think you might be missing the nuance of what the vast majority of climate scientists are telling you.
9ºBob Thomas One of the big issues with a rapidly changing climate is the fact that nothing will be predictable from here on out. Put a pipeline for water in one place, and a couple years later, that whole area might be in drought. In a lot of places, the rain that does fall simply goes into the ground, recharging water tables that have been decimated by industrial farming over the last hundred years.
Also, that pipeline in Alaska is having its own problems right now. The permafrost that pipeline has been built on is melting in places, causing all kinds of headaches currently.  when I was living in my dry cabin in interior Alaska, the pipeline was only a 10 mile ride up river from me. The whole area has changed drastically because of that melting permafrost, and the pipeline may not even be usable here soon. 
10ºMelissa Carrau you must not understand the reference. A lot of people say they get mutter when they go downtown. Many of them live back in the woods you see, the woman and the kids and the dogs and them. They got a shotgun, rifle and a four wheel drive, and they believe country boys can survive. They can plow a field all day long they can catch catfish from dusk till dawn. Make their own whiskey and their own smoke too ain't too many things those boys can't do.
- Andy Romagnano/Democratic nominee for Emerald Coast Utilities Authority District 2.