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.
212 POSTS

-

10 COMMENTS

Latest News

Alarmist messengers/claims

No, Washington Post, Tax Season is Not Getting Longer Due to ‘Climate Change’

The Washington Post (WaPo) ran a story on April 17, 2023, titled “Tax season is getting longer. Blame climate change.” Not only is the story written by Jacob Bogage flat out wrong, it is...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Media Ignores Real-World Data When It Comes to Tornadoes and Climate Change

This article originally appeared in American Thinker on April 7, 2023. After the recent devastating tornadoes in the Midwest and South, some media outlets scrambled to try to link the weather events to climate change,...
Uncategorized

Why We Need An Independent Global Climate Temperature Database

Originally published in Issues and Insights Ever since the beginning of the global warming debate, now labeled “climate change,” there has been one immutable yet little-known fact: All of the temperature data stations used to...
Extreme Weather

False, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Making Tornado Seasons Worse

After the recent devastating tornadoes in the Midwest and the southern United States, The Washington Post (WaPo) ran an article suggesting climate change is expanding the tornado season and the area over which tornadoes...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Media Regurgitates IPCC’s ‘Final Warning’ on Climate Change – Without Realizing We’ve Already Passed 1.5°C

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the final part of its sixth assessment report (AR6) on Monday, March 20. Predictably, the media rushed to repeat the claims made in the report with their own...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Wrong, PBS and AP, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Floods or Droughts

A recent article published by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) claims that “floods and droughts are worsened by climate change.” Various lines of evidence and hard data falsify this claim. The article, originally by...
Temperature record

Schooling the Media: Anomaly vs. Real-World Global Temperature

Originally published on WattsUpWithThat. Mainstream media outlets often use graphics to show how temperatures are rising dramatically in recent decades, here, here, and here for example. Their claims are misleading, at best, because the graphs...
Alarmist messengers/claims

Slate Shows It Doesn’t Understand the Difference Between Weather and Climate

An article in Slate suggests that the fact that some locations have experienced winter weather events this year that are unusual for them, is evidence climate change is causing weird weather. This is false....
1...789...27Page 8 of 27

Most Popular

Popular categories

Alarmist messengers/claims253Crop production200Climate change impacts130Extreme Weather122Economics and policy116Drought96
© The Heartland Institute