Reply #3: Climate change is not only here, it's unstoppable,

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and little or nothing is being done to address its consequences. The attitude of most naysayers who are not directly impacted is generally, "too bad, so sad, why do you live there?"

When it comes to global warming the naysayers believe it must be warming everywhere at the same time. We have all heard them in the summer or spring if it is cooler than normal, "so much for global warming", but there's never any complaint when a winter is warmer or more mild than normal.

Then there is the rub over whether climate change is a natural occurrence or is man-created. The city where I have lived nearly all my life, La Crosse, Wisconsin, is on the Mississippi and a large marsh separates the north and south sides. Usually in the spring it floods here and the marsh becomes like a large lake and a very large measure of the floodwaters go there rather than in the residential or business areas of the city. The marsh is also a natural filter for this water.

Years ago there were people here who if they had their way would have filled in the marsh in order to develop business, but the DNR stopped them and was very strict about any portion of the marsh which could be filled. Had this marsh been filled in it would have been a disaster in times of flooding and although flooding here is natural and has always occurred, this particular disaster would clearly be man-caused.