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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CNN’s Climate Photo Essay Reflects Poor Policies and Poverty, Not Climate Change

CNN’s recent photo essay, “Striking images showing environmental destruction aim to ‘inspire action,’” claims that photographs of trash heaps, collapsing homes, and dust storms “show the devastating effects of climate change.” This is false....
Glaciers

The Conversation’s Greenland Glacier Retreat Hype Isn’t Supported by History or Data

A June 3, 2025 article in The Conversation, titled “Greenland’s melting ice caps reveal the true extent of climate change,” claims that retreating glaciers and melting ice are transforming Greenland’s coastline, providing proof of...
Alarmist messengers/claims

The New York Times’ Big Lie About the Atmosphere Being ‘Thirstier ‘

The New York Times (NYT) claims in its recent article, by Rebecca Dzombak, “It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier,’” that global warming is intensifying droughts by creating a “thirstier...
U.S. temperatures

Warmer Summers? Not So Fast AXIOS: Nighttime Lows Drive the Heat, Not Daytime Highs

In their recent article, “America’s summers keep getting warmer,” Axios claims that hotter summers across the U.S. are “one of the clearest ways we experience climate change.” That statement is misleading. The article focuses...
Consensus

E&E News Analyses Grok AI’s Balanced Presentation of the Climate Change Debate

Climate Realism has spent years scrutinizing climate science claims, thus it was heartening to read Scott Waldman’s recent E&E News article, titled “Is climate change a threat? It depends, says Elon Musk’s AI chatbot.”...
Alarmist messengers/claims

The Guardian Is Lying About Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the UK

In a May 23 article “Climate change could bring insect-borne tropical diseases to UK, scientists warn,” The Guardian asserts that rising global temperatures are making Britain more hospitable to tropical mosquito-borne diseases like dengue,...
Ocean currents

CNN Lies in its AMOC Collapse Story: Another Flip-Flop in a Long Line of Alarmist Claims

A recent CNN article by Laura Paddison, titled “A crucial system of ocean currents is slowing. It’s already supercharging sea level rise in the US,” references new research on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...
Economic costs

CNN’s Climate Con: How Real Estate, Not Storms, Drives Insurance Costs

In a recent article, titled "Why climate risk could affect your credit score for buying a home," CNN’s Andrew Freedman describes a new report by FirstStreet that claims to show how “climate risk” could...
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