Comments about ‘Utah's climate a challenges to water supplies’

I'm glad meetings like this are finally happening. Global warming is rapidly leading us towards economic and environmental disaster, and we need to make big changes now to mitigate the damage. Utah House, take note. Thank you, Gov Huntsman, for your diligence in combating global warming.

Global Warming doesn't exsist the way "Scientists" say it does! There have always been climate changes throughout history. The earth has warmed and the earth has basically frozen over. It will happen whether we do anything about it or not.

I suppose planning for the change in water distribution is smart, but I hate all the talk of global warming being our fault because it's just not true.

look at the ice caps both poles. look at the guy with the big truck that burns diesel and the cloud of smoke that come out the back when he shows you how fast his truck is. LOOK AT THE DIRTY PLACE WHERE THE FUEL SPIILLS ON THE PAVEMENT. IT IS DARK. unleaded does not leave dark stains. nature has no trucks. our air in utah alone is the worst ever and you think people are wrong about warming and humans.

This is precisely the reason why Utah is smart to not allow the enviros to lock up many of our rivers in Wild and Scenic River designations! We need to minimize regulations that will impede our ability to use this water to serve our growing population!

GREAT idea.

Diverting huge sums of money from water resource planning and remediation, into climate change remediation?

Extremely BAD idea.

There is nothing on God's not-so-green earth we can do to affect the coming change in earth's climate.

Neptune's moon, Triton has warmed up an earth-equivalent 22 degrees in the last 9 years. I'm reasonbly certain that has nothing to do with industrial CO2 emissions.

And carbon sequestration won't help.

What will help, is devoting our efforts to the infrastructure necessary to deal with the global water distribution problem effectively for all stakeholders. Arguments over whether to short agriculture or municipal culinary water are unhelpful.

There is the same amount of water on earth now as 100, 1,000, 11,000, and more years ago. It's just misdistributed.

If our efforts are diluted to the point we fail to deal with this distribution problem, some of Al Gore's dire predictions may come true.

But global warming is not the problem -- it's global stupidity. On the part of global warming alarmists who divert and dilute necessary efforts to actually solve the problem.

The only thing that has really changed is our ability to accurately measure change on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis,

What we have learned is earth, the global temperature, the freezing and melting of polar cap ice,

is in a much greater flux, in a much greater state of constant change, than we ever thought of before,

but let's NOT run around like chicken little and cry the sky is falling.

We should take some time to relect and ponder what it all really means, if it means anything at all.

I believe we will find the the human influence on the natural cycles of earth, nature, the universe, is neglible at best.

Are these the same water managers and scientists who predicted just a few years ago that Lake Powell -- you know, that same Lake Powell that has risen at least 80 feet in the past two years, and is predicted to rise even more this year -- would be dry by 2021?

Picking on "the big truck that runs on diesel" is an extremely poor example of automotive pollution. Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines and current diesel fuel is much cleaner burning than any previous diesel fuels. Most current diesel engines can run on biodiesel, which is much cleaner than full petroleum diesel and is also much better for the engines. There is also the fact that biodiesel is derived from renewable fuel sources (currently much from soy bean but this should be replaced soon with better sources).

The example in the post is much more reflective upon "the guy" that is making clouds of smoke with his pickup and his personal feelings about the environment than ALL diesel pickup owners at large. You always have people that feel differently about helping the environment, preaching against them in blogs isn't the best way to change their minds. Certainly not with poor examples and emotive personal attacks.

Also, maybe "the guy" needs to have his truck looked at if his is making big clouds of smoke and dark spots on the pavement from fuel spills. Mine doesn't.