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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Claims on the Antarctic Ice Breakup Suffer from Limited History

The media was full of disaster headlines this week over an observed breakup of a minor and little-known Antarctic ice shelf. Yahoo News and the New York Times, among others, lamented the “unprecedented” event. The...
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Wild Claim: Climate change will be worsened by nuclear war, says the Atlantic

With the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the increasing unpredictability of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, the increasingly unwinnable situation in Ukraine, and the fact that Putin is running out of options, there has been some talk...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Media Scares Themselves, Confuse “Unprecedented” Weather Model Temperature Spikes with Actual Temperatures

This past week two left-leaning media outlets, MSN (via The Washington Post aka WaPo), and the always alarmed UK based The Guardian ran stories saying the Arctic and Antarctic, had experienced “unprecedented” high temperatures....
Economics and policy

Sanity Prevails – Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Federal Reserve Nomination

Here is a win for Climate Realism and sanity. On Tuesday, March 15, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Vice Chair of Supervision at the Federal Reserve, withdrew her nomination. Her...
Snowpack

No, Associated Press, ‘Climate Change’ Isn’t Making it Harder to ‘Fight Fire with Fire’

Among the stories playing the blame game on climate change this week is one from Brittany Peterson and Matthew Brown of the Associated Press (AP) titled Changing snowfall makes it harder to fight fire...
Alarmist messengers/claims

The New IPCC Climate Report – More of the Same Hot Air, with Extra Alarmism Added; Facts Missing

Topping the news today for many media outlets is the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report titled: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Although news outlets are going...
Sea level

Media’s Recent Sea Level Rise Claims Fall Short – The Data Doesn’t Support It

Dozens of media outlets are parroting a news release from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other federal agencies. Headlines such as Sea level to rise one foot along U.S. coastlines...
Climate record

Sorry, New York Times and NPR, Megadroughts Have Been Far, Far, Worse Than Today

Dozens of news outlets today carried the alarming “news” that climate change is causing the worst drought in centuries in the Western United States. This is false. Research shows droughts in the Western United...
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