Anthony Watts
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Background and education
Watts grew up around Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Purdue University[1], studying Electrical Engineering and Meteorology.[2]. It is unclear whether he graduated.[3]
Credentials held
Watts holds a Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society, with a status of "retired".[4]. The AMS no longer grants this credential.[5]
Credentials not held
Some online lists refer to Watts as "AMS Certified"[6]. This is incorrect; Watts is not an AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist[7], and AMS reserves the "AMS Certified" designation for its Certified Broadcast Meteorologists and Certified Consulting Meteorologists.[8]
Actions
Speaking
Watts was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) organized by the Heartland Institute think tank. [9] Watts is also listed as a speaker for the Heartland Institute's June 2009 Third International Conference on Climate Change.[10]
Businesses
In 1987, Watts founded ItWorks, which "supplies custom weather stations, Internet servers, weather graphics content, and broadcast video equipment." [11]; it is also known as IntelliWeather.
Watts is listed as the Managing Member of ZEV2Go, seller of an NEV-type electric car.[12]
Climate projects
In 2007, Watts founded SurfaceStations.org, to collect information on weather stations that are part of the United States Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN). [13] Watts believed that, with the information collected via the website, "we will be able to demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."[14]. But the results did not match Watts's expectations; a NOAA analysis of the Surface Stations data showed "no indication from this analysis that poor station exposure has imparted a bias in the U.S. temperature trends."[15]
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- Global warming skeptics
- Heartland Institute
- International Conference on Climate Change (2009)
- SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change
References
- ↑ Evan Tuchinsky (2007-12-06). Watts, me worry?. Reno News and Review. Retrieved on 2009-11-09. “...1978, when he was a student working in a lab at Purdue University...”
- ↑ "Chico Unified School District Board of Education". Retrieved on 2006-02-16. “...attended Purdue University where he studied Electrical Engineering and Meteorology. He was on the Purdue Meteorology Department staff and assisted in doing severe storm studies and created one of the instruments used in the original Totable Tornado Observatory”
- ↑ "Does Anthony Watts have a college degree?" (2009-10-27). Retrieved on 2009-11-08.
- ↑ "List of AMS Television Seal Holders". American Meteorological Society (2009-11-05). Retrieved on 2009-11-08.
- ↑ "REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AMS SEAL OF APPROVAL PROGRAM". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved on 2009-11-08. “"Applications for the AMS Seal of Approval Program will be accepted until 31 December 2008. After that date, only applications for the AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Program will be accepted."”
- ↑ Warming Scare Tactics - Skeptical Scientists (2008). Retrieved on 2008-11-08. “"Anthony Watts, AMS Certified, Chief Meteorologist KPAY-AM, USA"”
- ↑ "List of AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologists (CBM)". American Meteorological Society (2009-11-05). Retrieved on 2009-11-08.
- ↑ "Guidelines for use of the AMS Name, Seal, and Logos". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved on 2009-11-08. “"Sealholders may not refer to themselves as 'certified by the AMS' because that designation is reserved for individuals with the CBM or CCM certification."”
- ↑ "Speakers," Heartland Institute website, accessed January 2009.
- ↑ Heartland Institute, "Speakers", Heartland Institute, accessed May 7, 2009.
- ↑ "Personnel details: Mr. Anthony Watts," Heartland Institute website, accessed March 2009.
- ↑ ZEV2Go LLC Entity Details. Nevada Secretary of State. Retrieved on 2009-11-08.
- ↑ "About," SurfaceStations.org, accessed March 2009.
- ↑ Bill Steigerwald, "Helping along global warming," The Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), June 17, 2007.
- ↑ Talking Points related to concerns about whether the U.S. temperature record is reliable (pdf). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2009-07-06). Retrieved on 2009-11-08. “"for detecting climate change, the concern is not the absolute temperature – whether a station is reading warmer or cooler than a nearby station over grass – but how that temperature changes over time."”
External resources
- WattsUpWithThat.com, Anthony Watts' personal blog, which often addresses climate change
External articles
- Anthony Watts, "Weather Station Siting Issues within the USHCN Surface Station Network", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 10, 2009. (A copy of Watt's presentation is not yet available).
