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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Why We Need An Independent Global Climate Temperature Database

Originally published in Issues and Insights Ever since the beginning of the global warming debate, now labeled “climate change,” there has been one immutable yet little-known fact: All of the temperature data stations used to...
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False, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Making Tornado Seasons Worse

After the recent devastating tornadoes in the Midwest and the southern United States, The Washington Post (WaPo) ran an article suggesting climate change is expanding the tornado season and the area over which tornadoes...
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Media Regurgitates IPCC’s ‘Final Warning’ on Climate Change – Without Realizing We’ve Already Passed 1.5°C

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the final part of its sixth assessment report (AR6) on Monday, March 20. Predictably, the media rushed to repeat the claims made in the report with their own...
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Wrong, PBS and AP, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Floods or Droughts

A recent article published by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) claims that “floods and droughts are worsened by climate change.” Various lines of evidence and hard data falsify this claim. The article, originally by...
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Schooling the Media: Anomaly vs. Real-World Global Temperature

Originally published on WattsUpWithThat. Mainstream media outlets often use graphics to show how temperatures are rising dramatically in recent decades, here, here, and here for example. Their claims are misleading, at best, because the graphs...
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Slate Shows It Doesn’t Understand the Difference Between Weather and Climate

An article in Slate suggests that the fact that some locations have experienced winter weather events this year that are unusual for them, is evidence climate change is causing weird weather. This is false....
Extreme Weather

No, Axios, Future U.S. Hurricane Damage Losses Will Not be Driven by Climate Change

An article in Axios, written by Andrew Freedman, claims increased hurricane winds due to rising temperatures driven by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations may result in more hurricane damage losses along the US East Coast,...
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Watch the LIVE-STREAMS of Heartland’s Climate Conference

Don’t miss a minute of The Heartland Institute’s 15th International Conference on Climate Change, taking place February 24-25 in Orlando, Florida. All of the presentations are streaming live on three streams — one for the...
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