Anthony Watts

Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and currently does daily radio forecasts. He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed papers on climate issues. He operates the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning website wattsupwiththat.com.
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Hail No! NBC, Climate Change Isn’t Making Hail More Damaging

In the NBC News video report titled “How climate change could make hail storms even more destructive,” viewers are warned that stronger storm updrafts caused by climate change might supercharge hailstones, making them up...
Extreme Weather

Media Pushes Texas Flood “Climate Change” Hysteria, History and Data Say Otherwise

In the aftermath of the tragic Texas Hill Country flooding, a barrage of mainstream media outlets, including; CBS Texas “History warned of the Central Texas flood: Why the danger on the Guadalupe River wasn’t...
Economics and policy

No, Space.com, Cutoff of Satellite Sea-Ice Data Won’t Make Any Difference

The recent Space.com article, dated July 10, 2025, titled “US military cuts climate scientists off from vital satellite sea-ice data,” makes the false case for panic about the loss of data from the Special...
Extreme heat

No, CBS Boston, Climate Isn’t Making “Extreme Heat the New Normal”

In the CBS Boston (CBS-B) article titled “Is extreme heat the new normal in Boston? What hitting 102 degrees tells us about climate change,” Jacob Wycoff claims that Boston’s recent heat wave is a...
Alarmist messengers/claims

ABC News’ Claim that Climate Change Is Causing Sleep Apnea Is Absurd

In a recent article titled “Climate change making it harder for us to sleep, study says,” ABC News claimed that climate change is now not just responsible for hurricanes, wildfires, and flooding—it’s also robbing...
Extreme heat

False, Sustainability Magazine, Heat Waves Aren’t Breaking the Grid

In the article “Climate Change: How Heatwaves are Affecting Power Grids,” Sustainability Magazine (SM) claims that human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heat waves, which are allegedly placing growing strain...
Extreme heat

False, Washington Post, Heat Isn’t Making “June . . . the new July”

In their recent article, "June is the new July: Why intense summer heat is arriving earlier," The Washington Post (WaPo) claims that "the heat waves moving in recent days across Canada, the U.S., and...
Extreme heat

Wrong, CNN, Heatwaves Aren’t Becoming More Frequent or Severe

In the article “Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them,” CNN boldly claims that human-induced climate change is making heatwaves “more common, intense and...
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