YES, GWENDOLYN, THE CLIMATE WILL CHANGE.

Two groups of people regularly annoy me: Climate change fanatics and climate change deniers. And here's why.

Climate change fanatics are people who are desperate to stop the wheels of The Universe from a very human-centric perspective. Few are willing to acknowledge the responsibility of all human beings, including themselves, in mercilessly exploiting the planet at the expense of millions of other species. 

They do not understand that the leisure and education which have enabled them to become boorish snobs is the result of that pillaging of the planet they presume to guard against designated villains.

Climate change deniers are more honest. They are simply greedy. They want their world to stay just as nice as it has been for them, since they tend to occupy the conservative upper classes (from a global resources consumption perspective). Minimizing the obvious symptoms of climate change is a form of self-comfort, like a snuggle blanket. In other words, their science denial is a form of thumb-sucking obstinance, as opposed the the Greenpeace form of ramming ships at sea (hysteria).

Both perspectives are scientifically unsophisticated in terms of The Universe, which is far greater than our planet. Why? I speculate that looking at the Physics of The Universe punctures gaping holes in the narcissism of both camps. It deflates them properly.

Our planet has always been changing, and its atmosphere with it. Simple fact. And it certainly isn't going to stop changing as long as 7+ billion humans want to drive on freeways at will or consume electricity constantly.

Can masses of carbon dioxide and other pollutants accelerate the changes in the atmosphere? Of course. Any kid who has ever had a fish bowl knows how that happens. Our atmosphere is like a fish bowl without a filter/aerator pump. No new air is coming into it from Space.  

A fish bowl without a filter/aerator pump may be sustainable with the perfect balance of waste and microbial and plant life to recycle it, but our atmosphere is exponentially larger and more complicated.

All this does not even begin to address the reality of seismic changes. Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis are not flukes. They are part of our planet's natural lifecycle.

I do think it takes an exceptional stupidity for any intelligent person to deny human impact on our land, seas and atmosphere. The oceans did not pollute themselves with microplastics. Chernobyl did not emerge from the ground on its own, like a mushroom. Beef steers, pigs and chickens did not grow into massive populations naturally. Acid rain did not come about on its own from some human-devoid process. And so on.

Another simple fact: There is nothing immediate to be done by humans to impact the forward velocity of planetary evolution. That scares the living daylights out of many people, especially those who have brought children into the world.

Human navel-gazing about the environment is self-aggrandizing. A sufficiently extreme solar flare could irrevocably damage our atmosphere at any time to the point of human extinction. Our planet itself is temporal. It will be destroyed by our sun's inevitable decline. 

Religions of The West have not adjusted well to planetary changes, or reality in general. They have remained fixated on human reproduction and prescribed group morality.  Buddhism arose at a time when there was no scientific understanding of the Physics of The Universe based in astronomy and mathematics. The wonder of Buddhist thought is its admonition to embrace the temporal nature of life while striving for liberation from its distractions on a purely independent individual level. 

The Middle Way of Buddhism may be the sanest individual approach to the inevitability of changes to human life on a changing planet. 

The current course of the human species does not impress me as headed toward a utopian future of becoming cyber-humans who are immortal. The whole basis of cybernetic, electricity-based existence is not predictably sustainable with out-of-control population growth and widening socio-economic gaps. 

Yes, Gwendolyn, the climate will change. The question is, "How will you be able to function with the inevitable?" Staring at your smartphone won't cut it.