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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Glaciers

No New York Times, Melting Ice in Greenland Isn’t a Serious Threat

The New York Times (NYT) recently published a very long op-ed by Bret Stephens, who was assigned to cover climate stories for NYT in 2017. The article, titled Yes, Greenland's Ice is Melting But...covers...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Kudos to Fox News for Summarizing the Top Issues Liberal Media Outlets Have Blamed on Climate Change

As Climate Realism readers know, we provide factual rebuttals to media outlets that publish stories falsely blaming climate change for what seems to be an endless array of imagined connections between something bad happening,...
Ocean Productivity

Population Crash Cancels Alaska Snow Crab Season – Media Falsely Blames Climate Change

The media is abuzz this week with stories related to the first-ever cancellation of Alaska’s Snow Crab season for 2022. Media outlets like Bloomberg are wrongly attributing the decline in snow crabs to climate...
Snow

Despite ‘End of Snow’ Predictions by The New York Times, Ski Resorts are Booming

Back in 2014, The New York Times (NYT) ran an opinion piece by Porter Fox, titled "The End of Snow?" Fox, who in addition to being an avid skier, also opined on the climatological...
Extreme Weather

Epstein to Media: ’25 myths about extreme weather, refuted’

A recent Climate Realism post, “New Report Teaches the Media the Difference Between Weather and Climate” points out how the media erroneously conflates weather and climate. That post responded to a story on National Public...
Alarmist messengers/claims

New Report Teaches the Media the Difference Between Weather and Climate

One of the most common mistakes made when discussing climate change is claiming that specific weather events are proof of climate change. A recent example is the erroneous claim that Hurricane Ian was made...
Extreme heat

Washington Post Ignores Data to Claim Summers Are ‘…Hotter, Longer and More Dangerous’

A story in The Washington Post (WaPo), titled “Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous”, By Anna Phillips, Brady Dennis, Jason Samenow, John Muyskens, and Naema Ahmed, claims that compared to...
Contradictions

Thanks, Epoch Times, For Reporting on a Study Saying the Climate Crisis Is ‘Not Evident Yet’

A story in the Epoch Times reports on a peer-reviewed study that assessed climate changes over time and potential “crisis indicators”—such as natural disasters, heat waves, and crop yields. The study ultimately concluded that...
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