3. Deflects Responsibility
The phrase implies climate change is inevitable and beyond human control, which discourages action. In reality, we can mitigate and adapt by reducing emissions and investing in resilience.

2. Rate and Cause Matter
Past changes happened over thousands or millions of years. Today’s change is happening 100 times faster, and the cause is overwhelmingly anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, not natural cycles.

What's wrong with the statement?
1. True but Irrelevant
Yes, Earth’s climate has changed naturally over millions of years—but that fact doesn’t explain the current rapid warming trend, which is driven by human activity (burning fossil fuels, deforestation).

With some quick back of napkin math, this is like paying
Equivalent price per liter of gasoline: $0.09/L

Agreed I took some video in Abbotsford last night Dec 11 2025 showing bchwy1 getting closed for flooding

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9:20 pm update. Major highways between Lower Mainland and Interior closed due to flooding, falling rock/debris, high avalanche hazards.

“Very important” to avoid unnecessary travel in Fraser Valley to clear roads for evacs

www.drivebc.ca/advisories/f...

B.C. emergency management:
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline

I’ll be interested to see the data telling me how much more likely and how much more damaging this event was because of human caused climate change.

apart from dike repairs Abbotsford made no significant improvements in west Sumas flood preparedness since 2021

#ClimateAdaptation

Current road closures:
• Highway 7 Closed due to rockslide
• Highway 1 - Highway 9 to Hope - Closed eastbound
• Highway 5 (Coquihalla) - closed both directions between Hope and Merrit due to flooding at Sowaqua
• Sumas border closed to commercial traffic
www.drivebc.ca/advisories/f...

City of Abbotsford declares state of local emergency. Evacuation order issued for 371 properties in Sumas Prairie West, evacuation alerts for Sumas Prairie East and remain in place for rest of Sumas Prairie West and Clayburn Village.

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BREAKING: Evacuation alerts issued for large parts of western Sumas Prairie. This includes large parts of Highway 1 and all bits west of the old Sumas lakebed.
www.abbotsford.ca/city-hall/ne...