We hear in public forums that “climate is always changing,” or that “climate change is part of a natural cycle.” This is a form of misinformation intended to deflect from the existential fact Earth should be cooling according to natural cycles and it is doing the opposite. Action to mitigate the causes of planetary warming is necessary and urgent.

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains some scientific facts about natural cycles and misinformation about them in this short video.