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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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...
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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...
Plant life

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...
Alarmist messengers/claims

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....
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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...
Extreme Weather

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...
Sea level

Note to Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, Pacific Island Sea Level Projections Are Wrong

A September 26th article on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website, titled "Sea level rise inevitable for Pacific Islands despite future greenhouse gas emissions reduction, NASA finds," suggests that small island nations are doomed...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Media Confirms the Earth Is Not Abnormally Warm, Rather It Is in Its Coldest Period in 485 Million Years

Recently, many media outlets touted a new scientific study “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature” as proof that the current modest rise in temperature over the last 150 years is going to be...
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