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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Media Chases ‘Climate Enhanced’ Heat Waves, Misses Data Showing They are Less Frequent

A number of media outlets are claiming that U.S. heatwaves are getting worse this week due to climate change. This is false. Actual data from temperature measurements show that heatwaves in the U.S. are...
Alarmist messengers/claims

No, the Earth Did Not have an ‘Unprecedented and Terrifying … All-Time High Temperature’ on July 4th

On July 3rd and 4th and the following days, multiple mainstream media outlets ran stories claiming that the Earth had experienced an unprecedented hot day(s). This is false. The data they cited was not...
Mortality

No, CNN, Climate Isn’t the Cause of Excess Deaths in Europe

A recent video news story on CNN claims that climate related deaths in Europe are 1.4 million per year. This is false. Climate change occurs on timescales longer than one year and unless a...
Heavy Rainfall

No, WaPo, Climate Change is NOT Fueling More Devastating Rains and Flooding

A June 26 article in the Washington Post (WaPo) titled "The places in the U.S. most at risk for extreme rainfall" makes this claim in the subtitle "New data from the nonprofit First Street...
Extreme heat

No, WaPo, a Texas Heat Wave has Nothing to Do with Global Climate Change

The Washington Post (WaPo) has published a story claiming that the heat wave in Texas this week is "tied to climate change." This is false - it is a weather event, not a climate...
Air turbulence

No, BBC, Flight Turbulence Is NOT a Worsening Problem in Global Aviation

An article on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website makes the claim that clear air turbulence (CAT) is getting worse, affecting airline flights, and the culprit is climate change. This claim is demonstrably false....
Alarmist messengers/claims

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Climate Change Didn’t Cause Canadian Forest Fires or the Smoke in U.S. Cities

Last week, mainstream media outlets were abuzz with stories claiming that smoke from wildfires in Canada visibly polluting the skies in New York City, Washington, D.C., and many other cities in the northeastern United...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Wrong, Washington Post, Climate Change Is Not Driving ‘Arizona’s Water Troubles’

On June 4, 2023, The Washington Post (WaPo) published a story titled “Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West.” The claim that climate change is the driver behind water issues...
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