See, this is why it needs to be shown the rise in joules, and a total energy rise in the entire planetary system, not just some arbitrary surface temperature rise....because people like you (no insult intended here) genuinely see the small relative figure and think...eh its no big deal.

Its a huge deal.

We are losing gigantic chunks of the otherwise permanent ice shelf in south and north arctic areas.

With those gone, we have otherwise what would have been massive mirrors, which reflect light...now acting as big old heating blankets (the water is effectively a black body to sunlight, absorbs it like no other..).

That right there is called a positive feedback loop. You start with something small, and within no time (geologically speaking), its in runaway growth.

The frozen tundra in greenland is home to enormous pockets of trapped methane....not for much longer. (source: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n1/abs/ngeo2305.html)

Methane's impact on global warming (i.e. energy RETENTION within our planetary weather system) is 25 times greater than an equivalent amount of C02. (source: http://epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ch4.html).

Further to this video, when you heat up the ocean systems beyond a certain threshold, the natrual pumping systems which circulate warm surface water to the deeper parts of the ocean for cooling, just flat out stop working. (source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19895974), leading to the slow heat-death of a vast swath of temperatue sensitive biomes....which, when they are active and growing healthily, actually contribute to c02 depletion (carbon based lifeforms 'use up' carbon to be 'made').

...I could go on, but you see....even just a cursory glance at some of the 'smaller' impacts is pretty compelling enough to consider the phrase 'no big deal' a bit of a misnomer.

Do your research....it is catastrophic, and it is likely to happen in your lifetime (if you are under 30 atm).

Your grandchildren and great grandchildren will be living in a drastically different global environment.

No biggie though, cause we got electric cars coming online in the next 30 years or so

In reply to this comment by longde:
It's a non issue. Any engineer worth his/her salt can do conversions. And really, to work in a global environment, you absolutely have to know the metric system. It is taught in most schools from the elementary level.

Didn't some multi-billion dollar piece of hardware slam into Mars due to a "salted" engineer's metric/imperial conversion error?

It's a non issue. Any engineer worth his/her salt can do conversions. And really, to work in a global environment, you absolutely have to know the metric system. It is taught in most schools from the elementary level.

Whatever the merits are (or aren't) for this particular vid, the fact of the matter is that there is no evidence of any substance that human C02 emissions are 'causing' any kind of global environment changes. The 'global warming' threat is nothing but a money grab. The scientific community sold its soul for grants and government stipends, and they have lost all credibility on the subject. They have backpedaled, lied, falsified evidence, and otherwise abandoned thier morals and principles for the sake of headlines and money. In the process they have convinced more than a few mindless sheep and "please think FOR me!" tools that a faith based psuedo-religion is real. What climate change is happening is a natural event that is completely uncontrolled and uneffected by anything mankind is doing. It's a lie.

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