Watts Up With That?

Watts Up With That?
Type of site
Blog
Created byAnthony Watts
URLwattsupwiththat.com
LaunchedNovember 17, 2006

Watts Up With That? (WUWT) is a blog[1] promoting climate change denial[7] that was created by Anthony Watts in 2006.[2][3]

The blog predominantly discusses climate issues with a focus on anthropogenic climate change, generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change. Contributors include Christopher Monckton and Fred Singer as guest authors.[8] In November 2009, the blog was one of the first websites to publish emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit controversy, and a driving force behind its coverage.[8]

In the early months of 2010, it was reported the site might be "the most read climate blog in the world,"[9] and in 2013 Michael E. Mann referred to it as the leading climate change denial blog.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference brainard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Grant 2011, "* The blog Watts Up With That? is a notorious hotbed of irrational AGW denialism * the massively trafficked denialist site Watts Up With That * Watts is best known for his very heavily trafficked blog Watts Up With That?, began in 2006, which provides not just a megaphone for himself but a rallying ground for other AGW deniers."
  3. ^ a b c Mann 2013, pp. 27, 72, 222, "Since then, a number of other amateur climate change denial bloggers have arrived on the scene. Most prominent among them is Anthony Watts, a meteorologist...and founder of the site "Watts Up with That?" which has overtaken climate audit as the leading climate change denial blog."
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  5. ^ Dunlap & McCright 2011, p. 153: "In recent years these conservative media outlets have been supplemented (and to some degree supplanted) by the conservative blogosphere, and numerous blogs now constitute a vital element of the denial machine...the most popular North American blogs are run by a retired TV meteorologist (wattsupwiththat.com)...Having this powerful, pervasive, and multifaceted media apparatus at its service provides the denial machine with a highly effective means of spreading its message."
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  7. ^ See:[2][3][4][5][6]
  8. ^ a b Fitzsimmons, Jill (12 November 2012). "Meet The Climate Denial Machine". Media Matters. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pearce book was invoked but never defined (see the help page).