Another Reason I Trust Satellite Data over Surface Data | Climate Skeptic

In the case of both the UAH and RSS teams, both have been very responsive to outside criticism of their methodologies, and have improved them over time. This stands in stark contrast to the GISS and other surface temperature teams, who resist criticism intensely, put few resources into quality control (Hansen says a quarter man year at the GISS) and who refuse to credit outsiders even when changes are made under external presure.

Nats Senate leader rejects support for changed ETS

Fearing the day a beef roast costs $150 a pop, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has categorically ruled out ever supporting the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS).

In its current form, the ETS would strip Australians of jobs, decimate regional economies while also having zero effect on reducing climate change, he said.
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"Do you want to pay $150 for a roast and think that was an effective place for Australia to go, even though it did nothing for the global climate?

"If we're going to be voting for a gesture, why don't we have a tax for world peace?"

Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature

That mean global tropospheric temperature has for the last 50 years fallen and risen in close accord with the SOI of 5–7 months earlier shows the potential of natural forcing mechanisms to account for most of the temperature variation.