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Anthony Watts is a former TV weatherman from California who runs the "world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change", according to his climate sceptic blog, Watts Up With That? | Anthony Watts is a former TV weatherman from California who runs the "world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change", according to his climate sceptic blog, Watts Up With That? | ||
| − | In February 2012 leaked documents revealed Watts was paid $44,000 by Heartland Institute in January – with a further $44,000 promised later this year – to set up a website "devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA's web site." <ref>Leo Hickman, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/climate-sceptics-pai-heartland-institute?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 Climate sceptics – who gets paid what?], guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2012 17.12 GM </ref> | + | In February 2012 leaked documents revealed Watts was paid $44,000 by the [[Heartland Institute]] think tank in January – with a further $44,000 promised later this year – to set up a website "devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA's web site." <ref>Leo Hickman, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/climate-sceptics-pai-heartland-institute?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 Climate sceptics – who gets paid what?], guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2012 17.12 GM </ref> |
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
Revision as of 16:20, 21 February 2012
Anthony Watts is a former TV weatherman from California who runs the "world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change", according to his climate sceptic blog, Watts Up With That?
In February 2012 leaked documents revealed Watts was paid $44,000 by the Heartland Institute think tank in January – with a further $44,000 promised later this year – to set up a website "devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA's web site." [1]
Contents
Activities
Watts has been interviewed on Fox News by Glenn Beck about climate change and spoken at climate sceptic conferences. His blog posts, and those of his contributors, are widely and rapidly linked to and discussed across the climate sceptic 'blogosphere'.
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Contact
- Website: http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Notes
- ↑ Leo Hickman, Climate sceptics – who gets paid what?, guardian.co.uk, 15 February 2012 17.12 GM
