Take a peek at the XKCD comic/chart linked below.
Yes, the climate is always changing on a geologic timescale (millions of years). We are, however, effecting a huge change on a human timescale (100s of years), and dramatically affecting the climate in which we, our current culture, our cities, and our agriculture has evolved and developed.
This rapid change is not something we—or the systems we rely on—are equipped to handle. The stability of the climate over the past few thousand years allowed human civilization to flourish, supporting predictable growing seasons, coastal settlements, and ecosystems that sustain life.
By accelerating this change through greenhouse gas emissions and other activities, we’re disrupting those balances, risking more extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and challenges to food and water security.
This is not a natural cycle; it’s a change we’re driving, and one with profound implications for our way of life.
Over the past few years we've consistently broken temperature records, and we've seen a plethora of 100-year and 1,000-year events in storm patterns and in river and costal flooding.
The climate may always be "changing"... but we are accelerating that change. And making it much, much worse.
