Misplaced Pages

Anthony Watts (blogger)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Hans Adler (talk | contribs) at 20:40, 16 September 2010 (oops! wasn't there some kind of restriction on this article?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 20:40, 16 September 2010 by Hans Adler (talk | contribs) (oops! wasn't there some kind of restriction on this article?)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
It has been suggested that Surfacestations be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since September 2010.
Anthony Watts
NationalityAmerican
WebsiteWatts Up With That?
SurfaceStations.org

Anthony Watts is an American meteorologist (AMS seal holder, retired), editor of the blog, Watts Up With That? (WUWT), owner of the weather graphics company ItWorks, and founder of the SurfaceStations.org project that documents the siting of weather stations across the United States.

Career

Watts became a television meteorologist in 1987 when he joined WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana, and KHSL-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Chico, California. After working at KHSL for 17 years, he left in 2004 to become the radio meteorologist 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.

In 2006, Watts was briefly a candidate for county supervisor, to represent Chico on the Butte County Board of Supervisors, but he withdrew his candidacy due to family and workload concerns.

In 2010, Watts went on a speaking tour arranged by the organization Climate Sceptics to 14 locations around Australia. In his talks, Watts presented his views that the temperature records used to support the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming were inaccurate.

View of climate change

Watts has a skeptical view of CO2-driven global warming. He has said that in 1990 he had "been fully engaged in the belief that CO2 was indeed the root cause of the global warming problem," but that he later changed his thinking after learning more about the science and "found it to be lacking." He established the blog, Watts Up With That, which mainly posts about the global warming controversy. In 2008, his blog won the internet voting-based "Best Science Blog" Wizbang Weblog Award.

SurfaceStations.org

Main article: Surfacestations

In 2007 Watts launched the "SurfaceStations.org" project, whose mission is to create a publicly available database of photographs of weather stations, along with their metadata, in response to what he described as "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". Watts informed radio and television host Glen Beck that he began the undertaking, wondering if the composition of weather shelter paint had "made a difference" to thermometer readings and, consequently, the U.S. temperature record. The project relies on volunteers to gather the data. Volunteers estimate the siting, usage and other conditions of weather stations in NOAA's Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) and grade them for their compliance with the standards published in the organization's Climate Reference Network Site Handbook.

See also

References

  1. http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=7FAD9B84-237D-9F22-E8293FE98289E87F
  2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html
  3. "List of AMS Television Seal Holders". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  4. Pearce, Fred, The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, (2010) Guardian Books, ISBN: 978-0-85265-229-9. Pearce calls him a "radio meteorologist."
  5. Watts Up With That? blog
  6. Watts, Anthony (2009). "Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?" (PDF). Heartland Institute. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
  7. Watts, Anthony. "About Watts Up With That?". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  8. Indar, Josh (2006-03-16). "One out, one in, one on". Sacramento News & Review. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
  9. Rasini, Marin, "Find out more on climate", Townsville Bulletin, June 12, 2010, p. 39.
  10. Watts, Anthony (March 27, 2008). "Gore to throw insults on 60 minutes". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
  11. "2008 Weblog Awards". Weblogawards.org. 2008.
  12. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/dueling-sites-t/
  13. Beck, Glenn. Inconvenient Thermometers, glennbeck.com. Premiere Radio Networks, March 3, 2008.
  14. ^ Watts, Anthony. "About SurfaceStations.org". SurfaceStations.org. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
  15. Climate Reference Network (CRN) — Site Handbook (PDF). CRN Series. NOAA/NESDIS. 2002. NOAA-CRN/OSD-2002-0002R0UD0. Retrieved 2009-09-30. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

External links

Categories: