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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The Guardian is Flat Wrong About Blaming Climate for Extreme Weather

On Monday November 18, The Guardian published an “explainer” piece titled "How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather?" This is false. Actual data on extreme weather does...

Trump Taps Fracking Executive and “TV-ready Evangelist for Fossil Fuels” for Energy Secretary

From Legal Insurrection via WattsUpWithThat Chris Wright, Chief Executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking company based in Denver, has been outspoken in challenging climate change pseudoscience and championing sound energy policy. Posted by Leslie Eastman President/President-elect Donald Trump has...

No, Discover Magazine, the “Existential Terror” of Hurricanes Doesn’t Fuel Climate Denial

In a recent article, titled "How the Existential Terror of Hurricanes Can Fuel Climate Change Denial," Discover Magazine (DM) posits that the fear induced by hurricanes like Helene and Milton leads individuals to deny...

Wrong, Bloomberg, Real World Evidence Proves Extreme Rainfall Hasn’t Become More Frequent or Deadly

A November 4th Bloomberg article, titled “Extreme Rainfall Is Becoming More Frequent and Deadly,” covering the recent floods in Valencia suggests that climate change is producing greater numbers extreme rainfall events that are also...

Wrong, Earth.com, Climate Change is Actually Enhancing Life on Earth

An undated Earth.com article claims “The foundation of life is at risk from climate change.” This is false. Real-world data shows that the Earth is actually increasing its biomass in response to the mild...

No, Bloomberg, Climate is Not “Killing Buildings”

An October 21 article in Bloomberg claims that Climate Change is Killing Buildings in Slow Motion. This is demonstrably false, as buildings have been affected by weather for millennia, not just during the present....

Wrong, The Hill, Climate Change Is Not Causing Emigration

An Associated Press (AP) article picked up by the political website, The Hill, claims that Greece is unwillingly becoming the recipient of refugees from the Middle East and Africa that are migrating due to...

No, Media. Hurricane Helene was not Worsened by Climate Change

Hurricane Helene made landfall on Friday Sept 27th in Florida as a Category 4 storm and then made its way inland, dumping large amounts of rain followed by flooding.  Predictably, many media outlets immediately...

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