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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Major Media Plans a Massive Collusion-fest to “Get their Stories Straight” on Climate Change

The Columbia Journalism School of New York City has announced a media seminar “Climate Changes Everything – Creating a Blueprint for Media Transformation” to be held September 21 and 22, 2023. The tagline for...
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No, THE WEEK, Antarctica is Not a ‘Bellwether’ for Climate Change

The headline of August 14th article in THE WEEK, distributed by MSN News, was “How Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether.” The claim is false, being based not on peer reviewed science...
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No, ‘The Conversation,’ Climate Change Isn’t Increasing Earthquakes

A story posted in The Conversation, and distributed by MSN News, claims that climate change is influencing the number of earthquakes. Data shows this is false. The study was so limited in scope it...
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Wrong, Mainstream Media, Florida’s Sea Water Is Not Setting Records

Last week, several media outlets reported on a single seawater temperature of 101.1°F recorded at a buoy in Florida, claiming it was due to climate change. The is false. One single seawater temperature over...
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Houston Recognizes They Have a Problem, the UHI.

On Wednesday, July 25, ABC13 in Houston reported on the city's temperatures from new data that accounted for the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI) within the city and its surrounding suburbs. The results from the...
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WaPo’s ‘Journalism’ Has Tipped Toward a B.S. Point

A recent opinion piece in The Washington Post (WaPo), titled The Earth Is Dancing Too Close to A Temperature Tipping Point is so factually inaccurate that it merits calling BS on it. The article...
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Media Chases ‘Climate Enhanced’ Heat Waves, Misses Data Showing They are Less Frequent

A number of media outlets are claiming that U.S. heatwaves are getting worse this week due to climate change. This is false. Actual data from temperature measurements show that heatwaves in the U.S. are...
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No, the Earth Did Not have an ‘Unprecedented and Terrifying … All-Time High Temperature’ on July 4th

On July 3rd and 4th and the following days, multiple mainstream media outlets ran stories claiming that the Earth had experienced an unprecedented hot day(s). This is false. The data they cited was not...
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