Climatologists: ‘The death of the Greenland disaster story’ – ‘Taming the Greenland Melting Global Warming Hype’

This picture tells a completely different story. Instead of a long-term trend that could be related to anthropogenic global warming, what we see is large annual and multidecadal variability, with the end of the record not looking much different than say a period around 1880 and with the highest GBI occurring in 1918 (with 1919 coming in 2nd place). While this doesn’t conclusively demonstrate that the current rise in GBI is not related to jet stream changes induced by sea ice loss, it most certainly does demonstrate that global-warming induced sea ice loss is not a requirement for blocking events to occur over Greenland and that recent events are not  at all “weird.”  An equally plausible, if not much more plausible, expectation of future behavior is that this GBI highstand is part of multidecadal natural variability and will soon relax back towards normal values.…

Obama’s Energy Efficiency Regs Are ‘Making Appliances Way Worse’

The Obama administration’s seemingly never-ending wave of energy efficiency regulations for everyday household appliances don’t seem to be working very well, according to congressional testimony.

Energy Department regulators have or plan to impose 23 different energy efficiency regulations for household appliances by 2018, and already the home appliance industry and policy experts find these rules just make appliances cost more and perform worse.

“DOE has never looked back to see what the energy savings actually were or if consumers actually ever benefited from spending more money,” Stephen Yurek, the president of the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute, told Congress Friday.

“Although energy efficiency standards are often billed as having substantial environmental benefits, these benefits are relatively small and typically are not sufficient to outweigh the costs to consumers of the standards,” echoed Sophie Miller, a senior policy analyst at The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.

But House Republicans brought in several witnesses who disagree with DOE’s claims. One witness even remarked how DOE appliance regulations were making dishwashers less effective at cleaning dishes.

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) conducted a massive consumer testing effort on how DOE dishwasher regulations would impact the product’s ability to remove soils and grease. DOE rules made dishwashers way worse.

AHAM then surveyed consumers who tested such dishwashers, many of whom said “the dishes were ‘yucky,’ ‘unsanitary,’ ‘unappetizing,’ ‘filthy,’ and ‘nasty,’”Joseph McGuire, AHAM’s president, said in his prepared testimony.

“Not one person would serve family or friends from the dishwasher at the proposed levels,” he said. “Moreover … consumers are likely to pre-rinse dishes, which increases water use.”

The House hearing is the latest effort by Republicans to highlight the the huge costs imposed by DOE regulations. Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn went after DOE’s ceiling fan and furnace regulations in 2015, noting how the latter would add thousands to the upfront costs consumers pay to heat their homes.

“This is one of those regulations that is too expensive to afford. The cost on this is astronomical,” she said last year. “Even DOE itself says the cost to the American consumer is $12 billion to install …

British warships in Persian Gulf overheat due to ‘climate change’

Six British warships stationed in the Persian Gulf are breaking down because the water is too hot. This week, members of the British Navy testified to the UK’s Defence Committee that their Type 45 destroyers keep losing power because of high ocean temperatures. When the ships’ turbines get overheated, they can’t generate as much energy, resulting in electrical failures.

The makers of the billion-dollar warships, including Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems Maritime, claim that the ships were not designed to be used in that kind of environment for an extended amount of time, although they are supposedly engineered for a wide range of temperatures from sub-Arctic to tropic.

This news might be just the kind of thing that wealthy governments need to hear. Because if there’s anything that will motivate a country to take action around climate change, it’s when climate change starts to interfere with their ability to effectively kill other humans.

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Bombshell study: past El Niño’s ‘may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time’

Bombshell study: past El Niño’s ‘may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time’

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/09/study-past-el-ninos-may-have-amplified-global-climate-fluctuations-for-hundreds-of-years-at-a-time

From AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY How El Niño impacts global temperatures El Niño oscillations in the Pacific Ocean may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time Scientists have found past El Niño oscillations in the Pacific Ocean may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time. The team […]

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Spot the problem: Man-made emissions flat, but global CO2 hits record high

Spot the problem: Man-made emissions flat, but global CO2 hits record high

http://joannenova.com.au/2016/06/spot-the-problem-man-made-emissions-flat-but-global-co2-hits-record-high/

Yet again, as the onion is peeled we find that at every stage the human influence is so small it is undetectable. Go with the data — humans are not even driving global CO2 levels. What does? — maybe ocean currents, phytoplankton, Australian deserts something else… The Guardian trumpeted the rise of renewables as the reason man-made emissions of CO2 have stopped rising. Oh Bravo. Graph — IEA Note the success and grand achievement of trillions spent on expensive electricity and carbon trading programs — record global CO2. Here’s the newest Mauna Loa figures showing an unprecedented high of 408 evil ppm, a tipping point, a sign of numerical doom. Run, run ye heathens! … Why are CO2 levels so high — A record El Nino in 2016 perhaps? We need global anti-ENSO programs. Give us more money. Save the tradewinds! Chinese Emissions? Take the emissions figures with a pound of salt. Carbon accounting is hopelessly inaccurate, China can’t be trusted, and everything else is a guess. How can we run a global market on figures so prone to corruption. Is China artificially elevating figures now so they can make cheap “reductions” in future, or are they underestimating […]Rating: 7.0/10 (3 votes cast)

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Paris floods made almost twice as likely by climate change, say scientists

Paris floods made almost twice as likely by climate change, say scientists

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3438756/posts

The Paris floods, that saw extreme rainfall swell the river Seine to its highest level in decades, were made almost twice as likely because of the manmade emissions driving global warming, scientists have found. As artworks in the Louvre were moved to safety and Paris’s cobbled walkways were submerged, the French president, Francois Hollande, blamed the floods on climate change. Now a preliminary analysis by a group of scientists, including the Dutch weather agency and the University of Oxford, has concluded the risk of the flooding event in Paris was almost doubled – multiplied by a factor of 1.8 -…

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Report: Trump in 2009 supported UN climate treaty & ‘aggressive climate action’

Surprise: Trump was Once Concerned about Climate Change

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/09/surprise-trump-was-once-concerned-about-climate-change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A number of stories have appeared recently, claiming that Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump’s position on Climate Change is inconsistent, because he used to support Climate Action. Apparently once you embrace the Climate faith, you are not allowed to become an apostate. Donald Trump once backed urgent climate action. Wait, […]

Excerpt: Donald Trump once backed urgent climate action. Wait, what?

As negotiators headed to Copenhagen in December 2009 to forge a global climate pact, concerned U.S. business leaders and liberal luminaries took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for aggressive climate action. In an open letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress, they declared: “If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.”

One of the signatories of that letter: Donald Trump.

Also signed by Trump’s three adult children, the letter called for passage of U.S. climate legislation, investment in the clean energy economy, and leadership to inspire the rest of the world to join the fight against climate change.

“We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today,” the letter tells the president and Congress. “Please allow us, the United States of America, to serve in modeling the change necessary to protect humanity and our planet.”

In every conceivable way, the letter contradicts Trump’s current stance on climate policy. On the campaign trail, Trump has said he is “not a big believer in man-made climate change.” Last fall, after Obama described climate change as a major threat to the United States and the world, Trump said that was “one of the dumbest statements I’ve ever heard in politics — in the history of politics as I know it.”

The 2009 ad also argues that a shift to clean energy “will spur economic growth” and “create new energy jobs.” But these days, Trump contends that U.S. action to limit greenhouse gas emissions would put the country at a competitive disadvantage. In 2012, he went so far as to claim: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”…