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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Right, FreePress, the Mainstream Media Should Stop Falsely Blaming Air Turbulence on Climate Change

A May 23rd article by Rupa Subramanya in the FreePress.com (FP) had this bold headline: Stop Making Plane Turbulence About Climate Change. The story accurately describes how the mainstream media (MSM) used the severe...
Hurricanes

Media Hypes NOAA’s Above-Normal 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast

The mainstream media is hyping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) annual hurricane Season forecast released on May 23rd, that projects significantly above normal hurricane season is to be expected in the Atlantic....
Climate change impacts

No, Washington Post, Houston’s Mosquito Problem Isn’t New or Driven by Climate Change

A recent article in the Washington Post (WaPo) linked recent heavy rain and an associated explosion of mosquitoes to climate change. Other media outlets such as Fox News, cited the WaPo story saying Mosquitoes...
Climate record

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Tree Rings Aren’t Reliable Indicators of Past Temperatures

Dozens of media outlets such as ABC News, The BBC, The New York Times, and many more, hyped a study that claims summer temperatures in 2023 were unprecedented over the past 2000 years. This...
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Wrong, Inside Climate News, Excluding Climate Change from Florida’s Energy Policy is a Good Decision

An article in Inside Climate News (ICN) reports on a proposed change in Florida’s state code to remove climate change as a consideration for policy issues, now in the hands of Gov. Ron DeSantis....
Alarmist messengers/claims

A Note to The Guardian – Opinion Is NOT Science

A recent article in the newspaper The Guardian reports that some of the ”world's top climate scientists” believe that disaster is soon to occur due to what they claim will be an additional degree...
Sea level

The Washington Post Sinks Even Lower, Falsely Reporting Southern Coastal Sea Level Rise

The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story recently saying that sea level rise has become unprecedented on the east and southeast coast of the United States. This can be seen in the map in...
Alarmist messengers/claims

No, Sun Sentinel, Florida Isn’t Under Future “Climate Threats”

A recent article in the South Florida Sun Sentinel (SFSS) newspaper, titled “Florida in 50 years: Study says land conservation can buffer destructive force of climate change,” makes some catastrophic claims about what Florida’s...
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