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, CNN and Other Media Outlets, Climate Change Is Not Causing the Ocean Circulation to Collapse

A recent CNN headline, “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists“ misleads its readers into believing that a collapse of a critical Atlantic Ocean current is...
Contradictions

Yes, Popular Mechanics, Scientists ‘Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline’

An article published in Popular Mechanics magazine titled, “Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline” with the subtitle “Clues have emerged that reveal a much hotter history than we thought” makes a...
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No, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not ‘Supercharging’ the Latest Winter Storm

An article in the Los Angeles Times (LAT) by Hayley Smith and Grace Toohey, titled "El Niño and climate change are supercharging incoming storm, SoCal’s biggest this winter," falsely claims the present storm is being...
Drought

Media Outlets Continue Spreading False Amazon “Record Drought” Claims

Last week my colleague Linnea Lueken published a detailed rebuttal to a story in the New York Times claiming a recent drought in the Amazon was caused by climate change, saying: Several mainstream news sources,...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Punching Back at Counterpunch’s False Climate Claims

A website called Counterpunch.com ran a story on January 31st saying that we must solve climate change or disaster will befall us. The story is titled, "Solving Climate Change…or Else!" by Stan Cox. As we've...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Note to CNN – the Futile Battle Against 1.5°C of Warming Was Lost Even Before it Started

A January 18th story by CNN reporter Laura Paddison titled "The 1.5-degree climate goal may be ‘deader than a doornail,’ and scientists are bitterly divided over it," claims that we are approaching the point...
Alarmist messengers/claims

False, AXIOS, Climate Change Isn’t Altering the Polar Vortex

Axios, an online news and opinion service, published an article, titled "Polar vortex, extreme weather events set to slam U.S.," by Andrew Freedman, in which the writer claims that climate change is altering the...
Alarmist messengers/claims

CNN Claims the “Hottest Year on Record” Caused More Extreme Weather, Facts Say Otherwise.

CNN recently ran a story, titled “The year’s most extreme weather shows what a warming planet is capable of, and what’s to come.” Real-world data shows that CNN’s “climate change is driving severe weather”...
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