Anthony Watts

Guest columnist Anthony Watts runs WattsUpWithThat.com, the world’s most visited website about climate change. A former television meteorologist, he led research for www.surfacestations.org demonstrating that most American temperature monitoring stations don’t meet standards, undermining the credibility of temperature records.”

The New York Times’ Big Lie About the Atmosphere Being ‘Thirstier’

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The New York Times (NYT) claims in its recent article, by Rebecca Dzombak, “It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier,’” that global warming is intensifying droughts by creating a “thirstier atmosphere” that sucks more moisture from the land. This assertion is false, clearly debunked by real-world data. The idea that a warming atmosphere is increasingly […]

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Why California Wildfires are NOT Climate Driven: A Historical and Meteorological Perspective

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The tragic wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles have reignited the predictable chorus blaming climate change for natural disasters. As articles from outlets like Axios, Newsweek, and the BBC demonstrate, there’s a growing tendency to tie every fire, flood, or storm to climate change. However, a closer look at history, meteorology, and land management reveals that these claims are

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Wrong, Mainstream Media, Tree Rings Aren’t Reliable Indicators of Past Temperatures

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Dozens of media outlets such as ABC News, The BBC, The New York Times, and many more, hyped a study that claims summer temperatures in 2023 were unprecedented over the past 2000 years. This claim, in fact, can’t be verified by tree ring data, which isn’t that precise. Researchers are falsely assuming tree rings are reliable temperature indicators when in fact

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In Court Filing, Facebook Admits ‘Fact-Checks’ Are Nothing More Than Opinion

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Facebook has admitted in a court of law that such fact-checks are not factual at all, but merely opinions. People send me stuff. As we have previously reported, journalist John Stossel is suing Facebook after Facebook’s ‘fact-checkers’ labeled climate change information that Stossel posted as “false and misleading”. In the middle of all this is the

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Climate Change Did Not Cause Recent Record Heat Waves

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“Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change,” the headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets recently, couldn’t possibly be less scientific. With absolutely no analysis, no historical context, and nothing but conjecture, author Anne C. Mulkern, in her article for Scientific American, eschewed science for advocacy in her coverage of the brief Pacific Northwest (PNW)

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Four Sources Say “Globally Cooler” in the Past Twelve Months

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[Editor’s note: Ask yourself why the mainstream media haven’t blown the trumpet on this highly significant news. If the change in temperature had been of equal magnitude but upward, you can be certain it would have made headlines around the world, and people like James Hansen and Al Gore would be heralding it as a

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