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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No, AP, A 1.5°C Temperature Rise Won’t Cause “…Death, Destruction and Damage”

A May 17, 2023 story by The Associated Press (AP) climate reporter Seth Borenstein received wide pickup worldwide by multiple media outlets. Titled, "The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger...
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CNN Publishes Blatantly False Claim About Wildfires – There’s No Link to Fossil Fuels at All

A May 16, 2023 article by CNN reporter Rachel Ramirez titled, “More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find”...
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Note to Yale Climate Connections – There Is no Link Between Droughts and Climate Change

A May 11, 2023 opinion piece in Yale Climate Connections (YCC) titled, “Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?” link climate change and droughts in the United States. The opinion is provably false. There...
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No, AP, Climate Change Is Not Increasing Wildfires in Anchorage

An article by The Associated Press (AP) titled Wildfires in Anchorage? Climate change sparks disaster fears suggests disaster due to climate change induced drought is just ahead this coming summer. The article is badly...
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Wrong, John Kerry and MSNBC, Climate Change Is Not Destroying Crops or Killing People

A Fox News article, titled “Climate czar John Kerry says extreme storms caused by climate change will ‘rip’ crops away and ‘destroy homes’” quotes Kerry saying that climate change is devastating crops, destroying homes,...
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No, Great Britain News, 20°C Temperatures Will Not Cause Britons To ‘Bake in a Heat Wave’

Great Britain News (GBN) which advertises itself as “Britain’s News Channel,” recently ran a story claiming that warm temperatures which are forecast to soon arrive will cause residents of Britain to swelter or bake....
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No, Washington Post, Tax Season is Not Getting Longer Due to ‘Climate Change’

The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story on April 17, 2023, titled “Tax season is getting longer. Blame climate change.” Not only is the story written by Jacob Bogage flat out wrong, it is...
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Media Ignores Real-World Data When It Comes to Tornadoes and Climate Change

This article originally appeared in American Thinker on April 7, 2023. After the recent devastating tornadoes in the Midwest and South, some media outlets scrambled to try to link the weather events to climate change,...
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