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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Media Outlets Continue Spreading False Amazon “Record Drought” Claims

Last week my colleague Linnea Lueken published a detailed rebuttal to a story in the New York Times claiming a recent drought in the Amazon was caused by climate change, saying: Several mainstream news sources,...

Punching Back at Counterpunch’s False Climate Claims

A website called Counterpunch.com ran a story on January 31st saying that we must solve climate change or disaster will befall us. The story is titled, "Solving Climate Change…or Else!" by Stan Cox. As we've...

Note to CNN – the Futile Battle Against 1.5°C of Warming Was Lost Even Before it Started

A January 18th story by CNN reporter Laura Paddison titled "The 1.5-degree climate goal may be ‘deader than a doornail,’ and scientists are bitterly divided over it," claims that we are approaching the point...

False, AXIOS, Climate Change Isn’t Altering the Polar Vortex

Axios, an online news and opinion service, published an article, titled "Polar vortex, extreme weather events set to slam U.S.," by Andrew Freedman, in which the writer claims that climate change is altering the...

CNN Claims the “Hottest Year on Record” Caused More Extreme Weather, Facts Say Otherwise.

CNN recently ran a story, titled “The year’s most extreme weather shows what a warming planet is capable of, and what’s to come.” Real-world data shows that CNN’s “climate change is driving severe weather”...

U.S. Climate 2023 Year in Review In One Word: NORMAL

From Dr. Roger Pielke Jr via WattsUpWithThat The year is not quite in the books, but it is late enough that we can have a look-back at this year’s weather and climate extremes. We are all...

No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points’ are Nothing to Worry About

This week a number of mainstream and online media outlets have run alarming headlines warning of imminent “catastrophic climate tipping points,” citing a recently published paper that warns of the immediate danger of passing...

New Antarctic All-Time Cold Record Flies in the Face of Media Reporting

It has been a busy year at the bottom of the world, from hot to cold with climate change in the middle of it all for the blame by media. For example, The Washington...

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