If it wasn’t already obvious by the massive amount of visibility the LEGO brand has in your daily life by now, LEGO is a massively successful brand. They’ve made their massiveness official with an announcement during their most recent earnings call. This… http://www.slashgear.com/lego-now-the-worlds-top-toymaker-04344770/
I have to admit that a tiny part of me wants the effects of global warming to happen soon and be really dramatic. I realize that millions will die and humanity will be forever changed, but being able to point at the devastation and say "SEE?!?!" to the climate-change deniers might be worth it.
One difference between "weather" and "climate" is the timeframes involved. If you were to only look back at the last 5 or 6 years, you possibly could draw the incorrect conclusion that that arctic sea ice coverage is rebounding and just very volatile. In fact, if you look at it from a longer time scale -- decades, required for understanding climate -- you'd realize that, even though last year was higher than the last couple of years, it's still MUCH lower than historical levels. That degree of change, or the downward slope of that line, is crazy steep. Good for shipping companies in the short run, bad for everyone in the long run.