How can you possibly know when NASA was founded? Were you born in the 1940s?

I'm not sure how a level that's still lower than almost all of the years that preceded it is "a significant rebound". If I was getting shorter by a foot a decade and one year I found I grew by an inch, I'd not take much solace in the fact.

The physics are involved but pretty unambiguous, and we can (and have) confirmed this by satellite and atmospheric temperature observations.

http://judithcurry.com/2010/11...

Your second chart shows a positive temperature anomaly over most of the area covered.

If I raised your core body temperature by 2C indefinitely you would eventually keel over and die. Don't underestimate small changes when they act globally.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from temperatures being fairly steady (e.g. a fairly small positive growth rate) over the past decade-ish. The preceding hundred years have been a very steady upward trend, and if that was some sort of fluke wouldn't the temperature have started regressing to the mean by now? It seems more likely to me that whatever long-scale effects are causing the upward trend have been attenuated by some short-term system.

If an accumulation of statistics isn't your idea of direct evidence, I strongly advise you to avoid the sciences.

I don't think you understand the point of cap-and-trade. It doesn't have to make the government money: all it has to do is put a price tag on a social harm, which means that there's an economic force to reduce it. In fact, if there's arbitrage and speculation that raises prices of the credits, the price of that harm goes up, and rational economics implies that the amount of that that harm actually bought goes down.

It's kind of like the housing bubble, only instead of making housing unaffordable and forcing everyone into rentals, it makes pollution unaffordable and forces everyone into renewables.

Err, the first chart you've linked to shows the sea ice curve being shifted progressively lower on the chart with each passing year.

"If you can't season it, you don't known it."

RMS prepares scrambled eggs using home-grown peppers according to a GPL recipe.

"2014 is the year of Linux on the hot dog".

Is this a common usage that I'm just coming across?

That's Google's problem. If they didn't want to deal with the social issues of becoming the internet's de facto official directory, they shouldn't have made themselves the internet's de facto official directory.

...which would be moot were it not for the Google-as-address-bar phenomenon where casual users treat Google like it's the whole internet. Google made this mess for themselves when they became the defacto way of finding things online; they're the internet's index, and editorial decisions they make - even algorithmically - are now part of the infrastructure.

Hmm, it's "100R" in the original Korean too.

http://www.lgdisplay.com/lgdhp...

This is a good sign. If someone's showing you technology every year and it's gradually getting bigger and better and eventually starts showing up in products (like LG's TVs) then it's a science and engineering problem that's being advanced. If someone's showing you a technology that never existed before and it's suddenly a whole product, it often means it's so premature it's going to fail and better products will climb over its still-warm corpse towards success, or that it's a scam.