Author: Anthony Watts

Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Watts is founder and editor of WattsUpWithThat.com the world’s most viewed website on climate, a former AMS Television Seal Holder (Seal 676 retired) television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun. He is also an owner of an electric vehicle in California.

California’s Wild Weather, Wet or Dry, is Nothing New

December 13, 2021 12:44 pmDecember 14, 2021 6:19 am

For those wondering about the recent heavy rains, going from drought to deluge in a few short months, here’s some data and history to illustrate that it is nothing new, and it has nothing to do with the claims of...

‘Climate Change’ Is Not Making It Harder to Vote

October 30, 2020 3:24 pmOctober 30, 2020 3:34 pm

A press release from a political group called “ClimatePower2020” makes ridiculously wild claims that “climate change” is making it more difficult to vote in the upcoming presidential election, by creating severe weather extremes that keep people from venturing out to vote. There’s...

California’s Looming ‘Green New Car Wreck’

September 30, 2020 11:32 amOctober 1, 2020 1:57 pm

On September 23, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the Golden State by 2035. Ignoring the hard lessons of this past summer, when California’s solar- and wind-reliant electric grid...