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• The blog Watts Up With That? is a notorious hotbed of irrational AGW denialism
• the massively trafficked denialist site Watts Up With That
• Watts is best known for his very heavily trafficked blog Watts Up With That?, began in 2006, which provides not just a megaphone for himself but a rallying ground for other AGW deniers.
  — John Grant, Prometheus Books (2011)

Since then, a number of other amateur climate change denial bloggers have arrived on the scene. Most prominent among them is Anthony Watts, a meteorologist...and founder of the site "Watts Up with That?" which has overtaken climate audit as the leading climate change denial blog.

— Michael Mann, Columbia University Press (2013)

More importantly, it was becoming clear that the most effective denialist media weapon was not the newspapers or television but the internet. A number of influential websites, like Watts Up With That?, Climate Skeptic and Climate Depot, were established.

— Robert Manne, The Monthly (2012)

In recent years these conservative media outlets have been supplemented (and to some degree supplanted) by the conservative blogosphere, and numerous blogs now constitute a vital element of the denial machine...the most popular North American blogs are run by a retired TV meteorologist (wattsupwiththat.com)...Having this powerful, pervasive, and multifaceted media apparatus at its service provides the denial machine with a highly effective means of spreading its message.

— Riley Dunlap, Oxford University Press (2011)

One of the highest trafficked climate blogs is wattsupwiththat.com, a website that publishes climate misinformation on a daily basis.

— John Cook and Thomas Farmer, Springer Science and Business Media (2013)

A few critics continued to seek confirmation of their denial of the warming data on air temperatures from weather stations and satellites. In particular, former TV weatherman Anthony Watts established a popular website that mobilized people to report continental U.S. weather stations that were poorly located

— Brian Black and David Hassenzahl, ABC-CLIO (2013)

A few critics continued to seek confirmation of their denial of the warming in data on air temperatures from weather stations and satellites. In particular, former TV weatherman Anthony Watts established a popular website that mobilized people to report continental U.S. weather stations that were poorly located, for example near the exhaust of air conditioners. A study by members of the NOAA National Climatic Data Center separately analyzed the sites that Watts's volunteers identified as faulty, comparing them with the acknowledged good sites. They found that any bias introduced by poor siting had been mostly compensated for by the data reduction, which was designed precisely to remove biases by comparisons over regions and time. But if the raw data only were considered, the poor sites did not tend to overestimate warming compared with what NOAA had reported, as Watts had assumed; if anything the warming from these sites was greater than NOAA's earlier figures.

— AIP, 2015

The conservative movement and especially its think tanks play a critical role in denying the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), especially by manufacturing uncertainty over climate science. Books denying AGW are a crucial means of attacking climate science and scientists, and we examine the links between conservative think tanks (CTTs) and 108 climate change denial books published through 2010...Books Espousing Climate Change Denial and Their Links to Conservative Think Tanks...Watts, Anthony - Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? - The Heartland Institute

— Riley Dunlap (2013)

Blogs and opinions from respected publishers

Rather, the big problem was that the poll was skewed by visitors who clicked over from the well-known climate denier site, Watts Up With That? Run by Anthony Watts, the site created a web page urging users to take the poll.

— Philip Yam , Scientific American (blog) (2010)

News

Naturally, the “stupid” — which are most likely those considered “climate deniers” — have a response. A well-known “climate denier” Anthony Watts posted on his blog Watt’s Up With That this response:

— The Blaze (2012)

The blog features the fringe views of climate misinformers like Christopher Monckton and Fred Singer as guest authors and conservative media have previously seized on its misleading content.

— Media Matters (2012)

Even though the former program is just in the research stage, some anti-science advocates are upset about the potential development, likely because their websites will become buried under content that is, well, true. “I worry about this issue greatly,” said Anthony Watts, founder of climate denying website “ Watts Up With That,” in an interview with FoxNews.com.

— States News Service (2011)

Just a few weeks ago Anthony Watts, who runs a prominent climate denialist website, praised the Berkeley project

— The Virginian-Pilot (2011)

Anthony Watts, a meteorologist and a vocal skeptic of mainstream climate science, called the billboard "unproductive," akin to a "food fight." "I think Heartland is suffering battle fatigue," said Watts, who runs a climate-skeptic Web site and who considers himself an ally of Heartland. "When you're suffering battle fatigue, sometimes you make mistakes." Opponents of the Heartland Institute's strategy of undermining climate science were predictably disgusted.

— The Washington Post (2012)

Watts is an anti-climate-science blogger with a background in television meteorology, not climate science. His mocking assertions have provided no end of fuel for climate-change "skeptics," particularly his misguided alarms about records showing an upward trend in global temperatures. His shrill "skepticism" on this front led to an expensive study by independent physicists at Berkeley Earth, funded by grants from both the conservative Koch Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to see who was right, Watts or the world's climate scientists. The results, announced this fall, showed -- no surprise -- that climate scientists have been right all along in their understanding of temperature data

— Star Tribune (2012)

Misc blogs

The best of them — and that would be Marc Morano, proprietor of the website Climate Depot, and Anthony Watts, of the web site Watts Up With That — have fought with remarkable tenacity to stall and delay the inevitable recognition that we’re in serious trouble. They’ve never had much to work with. Only one even remotely serious scientist remains in the denialist camp.

— Salon (2012)

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Michael Burgess (R-TX), cited an online public opinion poll (in and of itself an unscientific way of sampling opinion data) as reason for rejecting the science of global warming. Making matters worse, it turns out the particular poll was targeted by well-known climate science denial website Watt’s Up With That in a campaign to skew the results.

— Scienceprogress (2011)

The blogging heart of climate change denial, Watt’s Up With That is calling for their army of winged monkeys to descend on the local theatre company’s contact page.

— City News (2014)

Before the numbers were even in, the science denialist blog Watts Up With That began downplaying the size, strength, wind speeds, overall effects — and even death toll of Super Typhoon Haiyan — a ferocious storm that may have claimed as many as 10,000 lives.

— IO9

Watts and McIntyre characterize themselves as skeptical on some climate change issues, and Muller agrees that they are skeptics not deniers. Unfortunately, the tone of some of their blog posts sound denialistic. Watts's blog,

— NIH

Watts Up With That is one of the more civil and well-read of the denier blogs. It is not reliable as a source of factual information. It does not disclose its funding sources. Anthony Watts, its proprietor, has worked as a broadcast weatherman for years but has no degree.

— Judith Curry (2013)

Mad Men of Climate-Change Denial: Persuading the nation that climate change is nothing but alarming requires a multimillion-dollar public-relations campaign replete with "experts" like the front men pictured here. Often featured as cable-news pundits or opinion columnists, most lack climate expertise and all are connected to conservative organizations funded by fossil-fuel interests like Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute... ANTHONY WATTS: Produces the blog Watts Up With That?

— Steve Brodner, The American Prospect (2013)

Anthony Watts, a retired TV weatherman who runs one of the leading contrarian blogs, and he has astonishing news about some e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia...It's exactly what the contrarians have been saying for years. The leading global-warming scientists are scamming the world. Billions of dollars in green energy and CO: restrictions and it all comes down to their reputations and their grant money.

— John Richardson, Hearst Magazines (2010)

Watts Up With That?...In a related argument, deniers say that the U.S. historical temperature record is unreliable because some weather stations are sited near trees, buildings, parking lots, air conditioners, and the like, causing the stations to record unrepresentative, and presumably warmer, local temperatures. The person most behind this claim is Anthony Watts, a former weatherman at radio station KPAY in Chico, California. In 2007, Watts founded SurfaceStations.org to demonstrate that "some of the global warming increase is not from CO₂ but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment.

— James Lawrence Powell, Columbia University Press (2012)

There is a denial movement seeking to cast doubt on the surface temperature record using photographs of weather stations positioned near car parks, air-conditioners and other warming influences (Watts, 2010). These photos attempt to communicate that global warming trend is being inflated by poor temperature data.

— Haydn Washington and John Cook, Rutledge (2011)

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jul/30/climate-change-deniers-monbiot

not having read the book, there is no way conservatives could actually know whether their charge about it was true or not. But they made the charge anyway–and one conservative blogger in particular, the top climate "skeptic" Anthony Watts, featured it along with an image of an "abnormal" brain

— Chris Mooney (2012)

http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Controversy/denial_controversy_cfb3333.pdf

Many scientists now realise it’s no longer enough simply to publish your papers

in obscure journals and assume that people will be enlightened and change their policies accordingly. You now have to go out and fight for your discipline, and engage in very unpleasant battles: but there are battles that people like myself, who aren’t properly qualified to fight, have had to fight for the past twenty-five years. I can completely understand the scientists’ reluctance to dirty their hands with this, but they have to. So these sites were set up partly as a counterweight, in response to other websites established by deniers like Climate Audit, or Anthony Watts’s site, which are used every week by journalists, particularly in Britain and Canada and

Australia, who constantly pick up the nonsense promulgated.

— George Monbiot, Soundings (2009)

The deniers’ response was both predictable and revealing.. Just a few weeks ago Anthony Watts, who runs a prominent climate denialist Web site, praised the Berkeley project and piously declared himself “prepared to accept whatever result they produce, eve n if it proves my premise wrong”.Mr. Watts [now] dismissed the hearing as “post normal science political theater”

https://books.google.com/books?id=6pMqCjVynG0C&lpg=PA376&dq=Anthony%20%22Watts%22%20%22climate%20change%22%20%22denial%22&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q=Watts&f=false (climategate)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/integral-life-home/Zimmerman-AnIntegralApproachToClimateChange.pdf

Connection between SurfaceStations.org and Watts Up With That

[Climate Audit] had formed an informal alliance with Anthony Watts, a California-based meteorologist who ran another recently launched blog, Watts Up With That? With the aid of his readers, Watts was engaged in systematically checking the reliability of the 1,221 weather stations recording surface temperatures across the US...From Watts's survey, as he reported on his www.surfacestations.org website, it was emerging that well over half of the US weather stations were affected by a localised version of the 'urban heat island' effect.

— Christopher Booker, Bloomsbury Publishing (2013)

The Rough Guide to Climate Change https://books.google.com/books?id=IL4dZLYZjRwC&q=Watts#v=snippet&q=Watts&f=false

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http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n3/full/nclimate2156.html#access ... and media stories in the years that followed (for example, Real Climate, Watts Up With ... increased by seven percentage points since April 2013, study co-authors Anthony Leiserowitz and ... 23 February 2013); http://go.nature.com/rnQLMt; Pappas, S. Climate change disbelief rises ...

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=6a123f14-f35b-4e74-bfe1-84345e69e43c&articleId=9be333e3-5f07-4583-8398-30d389570e37

http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=6a123f14-f35b-4e74-bfe1-84345e69e43c&articleId=9be333e3-5f07-4583-8398-30d389570e37

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1945314891/the-media-and-climate-change

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378012001215

https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-299257564/global-warming-and-the-interaction-between-the-public

RfC

The discussion has been running for a few days, and it appears many editors agree on a few points: 1) the RfC isn't worded ideally, and a separate discussion may be helpful to gauge consensus. 2) We should follow the sources, ideally the best sources. Many editors seem to feel our sources point in the direction of option 2 or 3. I'd like to start a conversation on what the best version of each option might be. Please feel free to contribute alternatives.   — Jess· Δ♥ 18:19, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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