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| :In any case, he said, the evidence for human-driven warming remains robust. “Saying what they’re saying has just provided an opportunity for them to create doubt in people’s minds,” he said of the bloggers. | :In any case, he said, the evidence for human-driven warming remains robust. “Saying what they’re saying has just provided an opportunity for them to create doubt in people’s minds,” he said of the bloggers. | ||
| Watts hopes that SurfaceStations.org will "demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO<sub>2</sub> but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_513013.html |title=Helping along global warming |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |author=Bill Steigerwald |date=17 June 2007 |accessdate=06 February 2009 }}</ref> | Watts hopes that SurfaceStations.org will "demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO<sub>2</sub> but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_513013.html |title=Helping along global warming |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |author=Bill Steigerwald |date=17 June 2007 |accessdate=06 February 2009 }}</ref> Even if anomalies were found in temperature stations in the ], it would not alter the increasing temperatures recorded in the Arctic<ref>{{cite web |url=http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends-in-arctic-temperature-1880-2006 |title=Trends in Arctic temperature, 1880-2006 |work=UNEP/GRID-Arendal |author=Hugo Ahlenius |date=June 2007 |accessdate=2 April 2009 }}</ref> and globally.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ |title=GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis |work=GISS NASA |author=NASA |date=2009 |accessdate=2 April 2009 }}</ref> | ||
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For the Australian rugby league footballer, see Anthony Watts (rugby league).Anthony Watts is a weather presenter for KPAY-AM radio, described as a 'Chief Meteorologist' by the radio station but listed as a retired Television Seal Holder by the American Meteorological Society. He runs the climate-related blog Watts Up With That, owns ItWorks, a weather graphics company, and is founder of the SurfaceStations.org project which attempts to document the quality of weather stations.
Career
Watts became a television weather presenter in 1987 when he joined KHSL-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Chico, California. After working at KHSL for 17 years, he was replaced by Kris Kuyper in 2004. He then became the radio weather presenter for KPAY-AM, a Fox News affiliate also based in Chico, California. Watts also operates several companies that make weather graphics systems for use on television broadcasts.
SurfaceStations.org
In 2007 Watts launched the 'Surface Stations' project, whose mission is to create a publicly available database of photographs of weather stations, along with their metadata. The project relies on lay volunteers to gather the data.
Jay Lawrimore, chief of the climate monitoring branch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) was interviewed by the New York Times in reference to SurfaceStations.org:
- In any case, he said, the evidence for human-driven warming remains robust. “Saying what they’re saying has just provided an opportunity for them to create doubt in people’s minds,” he said of the bloggers.
Watts hopes that SurfaceStations.org will "demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment." Even if anomalies were found in temperature stations in the USA, it would not alter the increasing temperatures recorded in the Arctic and globally.
Watts up with That?
Watts up with That won the 2008 Weblog awards, best science blog. ]
Views on Global Warming
Watts has stated that he had "at one time been fully engaged in the belief that CO2 was indeed the root cause of the global warming problem", but now finds the science "lacking". He established the blog "Watts Up With That?" to broadcast his views on global warming.
References
- http://newstalk1290.wordpress.com/news-staff/
- http://www.ametsoc.org/memdir/seallist/get_listoftv.cfm List of AMS Television Seal Holders
- Anthony Watts. "About Watts Up With That?". Watts Up With That. Retrieved 06 February 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Anthony Watts. "About SurfaceStations.org". SurfaceStations.org. Retrieved 06 February 2009.
Given such a massive failure of bureaucracy to perform something so simple as taking some photographs and making some measurements and notes of a few to a few dozen weather stations in each state, it seemed that a grass roots network of volunteers could easily accomplish this task.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ANDREW C. REVKIN (26 August 2007). "Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight". New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- Bill Steigerwald (17 June 2007). "Helping along global warming". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 06 February 2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Hugo Ahlenius (June 2007). "Trends in Arctic temperature, 1880-2006". UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- NASA (2009). "GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis". GISS NASA. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- Anthony Watts (27 March 2008). "Gore to throw insults on 60 minutes". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 06 February 2009.
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