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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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...
Climate change impacts

CNN Falsely Claims Airline Turbulence Will Increase due to Climate Change

These days, the media will try to link nearly anything to climate change. As an example CNN ran a story, titled “Why air turbulence could be about to get a whole lot worse” by...
Extreme heat

No, USA Today, Heat Waves Are Not the “Top Weather-Related Killer”

A story in the September 12 edition of USA Today, titled “California becomes first US state to begin ranking extreme heat wave events,” erroneously claimed that excessive heat is the top weather-related killer in...
Tipping points

Media Can’t Agree on the Number of Climate Tipping Points, Much less When.

Following the publication of story in The Guardian by Damian Carrington last week, titled, “World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds,” numerous corporate media outlets picked up the theme and...
Sea level

The New Haven Independent Promotes Climate Misinformation

A story in The New Haven Independent, titled “Maps Show Climate Change’s Neighborhood Impacts,” by reporter Laura Glesby cited a presentation by a climate advocacy group to claim that New Haven, Connecticut would suffer highly...
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